- Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
- The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
- The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics (Yale Fastbacks)
- Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era
- Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought