His areas of research include race theory, political and social philosophy, African American philosophy, and Asian American philosophy. His publications include “Being & Being Mixed Race” (Social Theory and Practice 27, 2001), “Racial Nominalism” (Journal of Social Philosophy 33:2, 2002), “Race and Place: Social Space in the Production of Human Kinds” (Philosophy and Geography (6:1, 2003), “Douglass & Du Bois’s der Schwarze Volksgeist” (Race And Racism in Continental Philosophy, Indiana, 2003), and The Browning of America and The Evasion of Social Justice (SUNY, 2008).