
Books:
- Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion
in American Film, 1929-1949
(University of California Press, 2007)Reviewed in:
- American Historical Review
- Church History
- Film Quarterly
- Journal of African American History
- Journal of American History
- Reviews in American History
- African-American Women and Christian Activism:
New York's Black YWCA, 1905-1945
(Harvard University Press, 1997)- This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women's
Religious Biography
(Routledge, 1996), co-edited with Richard NewmanEditorial Projects:
- Exhibit Curator: "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints:
Black Religion in Film" for Separate Cinema: The Art of Black Film Posters- The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
Founder and editor (1997-2005)- Co-editor of special issue (with Priscilla Wald and Christine DiStefano) on
"Institutions, Regulation, and Social Control,”
of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 24: 4 (Summer 1999)
Recent Book Chapters:
- “The Silent Social Problem Film: Regeneration (1915),” in Colleen McDannell, ed.,
Catholics in the Movies (Oxford University Press, 2007)- "Truths That Liberate the Soul: Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance,"
in R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage, eds., Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)- "Projecting Blackness: African-American Religion in the Hollywood Imagination,"
in Henry Goldschmidt and Elizabeth McAlister, eds., Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas
(Oxford University Press, 2004)- “Universal in Spirit, Local in Character: The Riverside Church and New York City,”
in Peter J. Paris, James Hudnut-Beumler, John W. Cook, Lawrence Mamiya, Nora Tubbs Tisdale,
Judith Weisenfeld, The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York
(New York University Press, 2004)- "'My Story Begins Before I Was Born': Myth, History and Power in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust,"
in S. Brent Plate, ed., Representing Religion in World Cinema: Mythmaking, Filmmaking, Culture Making
(Palgrave, 2003)Current Projects :
- Black Prophets, Gods, and Utopian Visions: Religion and Racial Identity in the Great Migration
- “’The Secret at the Root’: Performing African American Religious Modernity in Hall Johnson’s Run, Little Chillun”
- Eva Jessye's Spirituals: African American Religion, Music, and Cultures in Motion, 1870-1940