Coeditor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Juan Bruce-Novoa, Jackson Bryer, Elaine Hedges, Amy Ling, Daniel Littlefield, Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Carla Mulford, Raymund Paredes, Hortense Spillers, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Andrew Wiget.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  2 vols.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1990.

Associate General Editor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Juan Bruce-Novoa, Jackson Bryer, Elaine Hedges, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Amy Ling, Daniel Littlefield, Jr., Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Carla Mulford, Raymund Paredes, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Andrew Wiget.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  2nd ed., rev.  2 vols.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994.

Coeditor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay (General Editors), William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Barbara T. Christian, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Arnold Rampersad, and Hortense Spillers.  The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.  New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Associate General Editor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Juan Bruce-Novoa, Jackson Bryer, Elaine Hedges, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Amy Ling, Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Carla Mulford, Raymund Paredes, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Andrew Wiget.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed., rev. 2 vols. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Associate General Editor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Jackson Bryer, King-Kok Cheung, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Wendy Martin, Quentin Miller, Charles Molesworth, Raymund Paredes, Ivy Schweitzer, Andrew Wiget, and Sandy Zagarell.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  4th ed., rev.  2 vols.  Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Associate General Editor, with Paul Lauter (General Editor), Jackson Bryer, King-Kok Cheung, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Raymund Paredes, Ivy Schweitzer, Linda Wagner-Martin, Andrew O. Wiget, and Sandy Zagarell.  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  5th ed., rev.  Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Essays

"John Hawkes' Second Skin."  Mosaic 8.1 (1974): 65-73.

"Afro-American Literature Without Books?"  UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies Newsletter 5.1 (1980): 4-5.

"The Crisis in Afro-American Letters."  College English 43 (1981): 773-778.

"The Quest for the American Dream in Three Afro-American Novels: If He Hollers Let Him Go, The Street, and Invisible Man."  MELUS 8.4 (1981): 33-59.

"'In the Realm of the Imagination': Afro-American Literature and the American Canon."  ADE Bulletin 78 (Summer 1984): 35-39.  Reprinted in The Informed Reader: Contemporary Issues in the Disciplines.  Ed. Charles Bazerman.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.  65-77.

"Nathan C. Heard."  Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955.  Vol. 33 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Ed. Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.  110-115.

"Robert Deane Pharr."  Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955.  Vol. 33 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Ed. Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.  208-214.

"James David Corrothers."  Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance.  Vol. 50 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Ed. Trudier Harris and Thadious M. Davis.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.  52-62.

"Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel."  New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin.  Ed. Eric J. Sundquist.  New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986.  45-84.  Reprinted in Literary Influence and African-American Writers.  Ed. Tracy Mishkin.  New York: Garland, 1996.  23-64.

Afterword.  Blood on the Forge.  By William Attaway.  1941.  New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987.  295-315.

Introduction.  Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.  By Pauline E. Hopkins.  1900.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.  xxvii-xlviii.

"The First-Person in Afro-American Fiction."  Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s.  Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Patricia Redmond.  Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989.  105-121.

"Race, Violence, and Manhood: The Masculine Ideal in Frederick Douglass's 'The Heroic Slave.'"  Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays.  Ed. Eric J. Sundquist.  New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.  166-188.  Reprinted in Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Ed. Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson.  Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1997.  159-184.

"Black Authors, White Readers: Early Afro-American Fiction Writers and the Problem of Audience."  Lire en Amerique [Reading in America].  Ed. John Atherton and Claire Bruyere.  Cahiers Charles V 14.  Paris: Universite Paris VII, 1992.  33-46.

Introduction.  Uncle Tom's Children.  By Richard Wright.  1940.  New York: Perennial-Harper Collins, 1993.  ix-xxix.

"Anna Julia Cooper."  The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  Ed. Paul Lauter, et al.  2nd ed., rev. and enl.  Vol. 2.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994.  782-783.

"Pauline Hopkins."  A Companion to American Thought.  Ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg.  Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.  313-314.
"Violence, Manhood, and Black Heroism: The Wilmington Riot in Two Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels." 

Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.  Ed. David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson.  Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1998.  225-251.

Introduction.  Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light.  By John A. Williams.  1969.  Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1999.  vii-xvi.

Introduction.  Understand This.  By Jervey Tervalon. 1994.  Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2000.  3-5.

"The Oral Tradition in African American Literature."  Contemporary Approaches to American Culture.  Ed. Nguyen Lien and Jonathan Auerbach.  Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Van Hoa - Thong Tin, 2001.  356-382.

With Dianne Pinderhughes.  “A Changing Political Context: The Pinderhughes, Yarborough Report.”  Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States.  New York: Ford Foundation, 2007.  159-229.

Miscellaneous

"The American Political Novel."  Reconstructing American Literature: Courses, Syllabi, Issues.  Ed. Paul Lauter.  Old Westbury, N._Y.: Feminist Press, 1983.  160-162.

With A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Frances Smith Foster, Paul Lauter, and John W. Roberts.  "African American Literature." 

Redefining American Literary History.  Ed. Ruoff and Ward.  New York: Modern Language Assoc., 1990.  290-326.

With Elaine Hedges.  "Paul Laurence Dunbar."  Instructor's Guide for The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  Ed. Judith A. Stanford.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1990.  315-318.

With Elaine Hedges.  "Paul Laurence Dunbar."  Instructor's Guide for The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  2nd ed., rev. and enl.  Ed. John Alberti.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994.  378-381.

"Anna Julia Cooper."  Instructor's Guide for The Heath Anthology of American Literature.  2nd ed., rev. and enl.  Ed. John Alberti.  Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994.  418-422.

With Charlotte Heth.  "Faculty Development: Interdisciplinary Seminar."  Women of Color and the Multicultural Curriculum: Transforming the Classroom.  Ed. Liza Fiol-Matta and Miram K. Chamberlain.  New York: Feminist Press, 1994.  98-111.

"Ways of Thinking: Contemplating a Context for Understanding Black Male."  Los Angeles Weekly.  April 21-27, 1995.  23, 29.

"Arguing Amistad."  Los Angeles Weekly.  December 19-25, 1997.  39-40.

With Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Gavin Jones, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Arnold Rampersad, eds.  Paul Laurence Dunbar.  Spec. issue of African American Review 41.2 (2007): 200-401.

Reviews

Rev. of In My Father's House, by Ernest J. Gaines.  Black Books Bulletin 6.2 (1979): 46-48.

Rev. of Jim Flying High, by Mari Evans.  UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies Newsletter 4.1 (1979): 7.

Rev. of The Lakestown Rebellion by Kristin Hunter.  First World 2.4 (1980): 40-41.

Rev. of Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son, by Addison Gayle.  Black American Literature Forum 15 (1981): 31-33.

Rev. of The Politics of Literary Expression, by Donald B. Gibson.  MELUS 9.4 (1982): 67-75.

Rev. of George S. Schuyler, by Michael W. Peplow.  Black American Literature Forum 16 (1982): 80-81.

Rev. of Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition, by Ladell Payne.  The Georgia Review 37 (1983): 449-452.

"Breaking the 'Codes of Americanness.'"  Rev. of Beyond Ethnicity: Descent and Consent in American Culture, by Werner Sollors.  American Quarterly 38 (1986): 860-65.

Rev. of Understand This, by Jervey Tervalon.  African American Review 33.2 (1999): 374-76.