She is the author of two books, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 2005) and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender (Albany: SUNY Press, 2012). She is also the editor of Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms (Albany: SUNY Press, 2016) and is a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine, having authored several cover stories, including “Beyoncé’s Fierce Feminism” (Spring 2013). Her area of specialty includes black women’s representations in historical and global perspectives.