Her research interests include African American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work has been published in College Literature , Camera Obscura , Black Filmmaker , Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art , the Journal of Asian American Studies , and the Journal of African American History. Her book Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic explores the cultural politics of the Black Power movement, particularly the Black Arts movement's search to define a "Black Aesthetic." It is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in Fall 2009.