He is the author of Framing Blackness and Do the Right Thing in the ‘Modern Classics’ series, as well as numerous book chapters on black cinema, its stars, culture and politics, essays and reviews for such journals as Sight & Sound, CINEASTE, Film Quarterly, Discourse, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Ethnic & Racial Studies and Callaloo. He has also served on numerous editorial, review and executive boards including Cinema Journal, African American Review, The American Studies Association, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.