Planning the past: heritage tourism and post-colonial history at Port Royal, under review with Lexington Books.
Race, Class and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985. Issued as paperback Fall, 1989.
Articles
"Social Consciousness in Dancehall Reggae," in Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts 2e, edited by David Goldblatt and Lee B. Brown, (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004), 392-399.
"Heritage Tourism Development and Unofficial History in Port Royal, Jamaica," Social and Economic Studies 52:2 (2003), pages 1-27.
"Presenting the Past: The Construction of National History in a Jamaican Tourist Site," in Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean edited by Holger Henke and Fred Reno, University of the West Indies Press, 2003, pages 141-180.
"What Anthropology can teach us about Race and Ethnicity," Remarks (Newsletter of the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities), XX (3) April 2002, 3-4.
"Half the Story: The Uses of History in Jamaican Political Discourse," Caribbean Quarterly 45 (1), 62-77 (March 1999).
"The Descent of (White) Man: Race and Gender in Human Evolution Exhibits," Museum Anthropology 20 (3), 1997. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology, 1999.
"Conspiracy Theories as Ethnosociologies: Explanation and Intention in African-American Political Culture," The Journal of Black Studies 28 (1) September, 1997, 112-125.
Presentations
"Commemorating Caribbean public scholarship: the memory of Walter Rodney in Jamaica," co-authored with F.S.J. Ledgister, presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, August 2004.
"Pirates as a metaphor in popular and political culture" presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meetings, St. Kitts & Nevis, June 1, 2004.
"Rastafari in Jamaican Politics," invited presentation for students of Professor Ennis Edmonds, Kenyon College, April 20, 2004.
"Commemorating Caribbean public scholarship: the memory of Walter Rodney in Jamaica," co-authored with Fragano Ledgister, presented at the Atlanta University Center Conference on Walter Rodney, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23, 2004.
"Heritage Tourism Development and Unofficial History in the Community of Port Royal, Jamaica," presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Meetings, Nassau, May 31, 2002.
"Inventing History at Port Royal" Tuesday Faculty Lunch, Denison University, April 16, 2002.
"Columbus ?pon Vibes: Lyrical Counter-Histories in Jamaican Popular Musi" presented at a conference entitled ?Uncovering Connections: Cultural Endurance between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean,? Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, March 15-16, 2002.
"Managed Hearts under Bullet-Proof Vests: Teaching Social Process through Police Ride-Alongs." co-authored with Leah J. Smith, presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Anaheim, California, August 2001.
"Representing Jamaica: Gender in Dancehall Reggae Music," DePaul University, Chicago, April, 2001.
"Lyrical Counter-Histories: Oppositional Narratives in Jamaican Popular Music," presented at the American Sociological Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
"Presenting the Past: The Construction of National Identity in a Jamaican Historical Site," presented at the Caribbean Studies Association meetings, St. Lucia, June, 2000.