He has a growing number of articles and essays in the fields of theological, religious, and American and African-American studies that have appeared in various professional journals and edited books. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2008), which explores the theological roots of the modern racial imagination and the making of racial identities. He is working on several book projects, including a book on political theology titled Fugitive Politics: A Counterhistory of Political Theology (contracted with Yale University Press) and a book on the American expatriate writer, Leftist intellectual, and Native Son author Richard Wright tentatively called (W)right Religion: The Religious Imagination of Richard Wright.