Routledge, 2000
Race in Cyberspace was the first book-length scholarly approach to the racial politics of cyberspace, and helped to extend the broader conversation around what had been a major blindspot in the public and scholarly discourses on cyberculture. In the face of a widespread utopian discourse about cyberspace's erasure of "troublesome" matters of identity politics ("There is no race," a popular MCI commercial said about the Internet, "there are only minds"), Race in Cyberspace offers a series of compelling arguments for the extraordinarily powerful presence of race online, even in the absence of visible bodies.
Elvis After Elvis does more than merely explain Elvis Presley's surprising posthumous status as a pervasive media icon: it also examines how larger questions of race, gender, class, religion, and the American Dream play themselves out in and through contemporary forms of US mass media. I argue that Elvis is a prominent point of articulation around which a variety of socio-political battles are fought. Examining Elvis, then, isnt so much an end in and of itself as it is a way for us to understand and intervene in some of those struggles: e.g., to recognize and fight against institutionalized forms of racism, or to work for a broader and more democratic notion of what counts as "culture."
Winner, First Annual Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US branch), 1997
Popular Communication, 4(2), 2006, pp. 95-121
(co-author Cheyanne Vanderdonckt)
Cultural Studies, 20(2/3), 2006, pp. 245-261
Journal of Communication Inquiry, 21(2), 1997, pp. 56-69
Cultural Studies, 8(3), 1994, pp. 457-483
Meanjin, 52(2), 1993, pp. 295-312
In Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age (Beth E. Kolko, ed.). New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 11-48.
In Popular Music and Culture: New Essays on Key Terms (Thomas Swiss and Bruce Horn, eds.). Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 35-45.