Introduction: Cursus Fugae: Frenzied Soundings and Threatening Gestures; or, the Making of an Undisciplined/Black-Fleshed Maroon Part I. Contemptus Mundi; or, Hos Me: Initiation into a Discursive Formation 1.Contemptus Mundi: Social Power of an Ancient Rhetorics and Worldview (1992) 2.Ascetic Behavior and Color-ful Language: Stories About Ethiopian Moses (1992) 3.Not of This World: Early Christianities as Rhetorical and Social Formation (1996) 4.Like a Ship that's Tossed and Driven: The Ascetics of Social Formation (2001) 5.Contemptus Mundi: The Dialectics of Modern Formation Part II. "Hitting a Lick With a Crooked Stick"; Or, Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: Oblique Critique of the Discursive Formation 6.
Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures: African Americans and the Bible--A Disturbing Conjunction and a Defiant Question (2000) 7."Naturally Veiled and Half Articulate": Scriptures, Modernity, and the Formation of African America (2008) 8."No modern Joshua": Nationalization, Scriptures, and Race (2009) 9.Interpreters--Enslaving/Enslaved/Runagate (2010) 10.Per-forming Scriptures: Text(ure)s of African Diaspora Formation (2020) Part III. Signifying (on) Scriptures; Or, Reading Textures, Gestures, Power: Efforts at Re-orientation and Re-formation within the Veil of Formation 11.The Work We Make Scriptures Do for Us: An Argument for Signifying (on) Scriptures as Intellectual Project (2010) 12.Scripturalization: A Theory of the Politics of Language (2015) 13.
From Being Framed to Selling Shadows 14.American Constantine 15. White Men's Fetish: The Black Atlantic Reads King James (2015) 16. The Name the Peckerwoods Gave It: St. Paul's Holy Spiritual Temple and the Scriptural Formation of the Black Atlantic Written in collaboration with Rosamond C. Rodman 17."We Will Make Our Own Future Text": A Proposal for an Alternate Interpretive Orientation (2007) 18.Meditation on Disruption (2018) Part IV.
"I'm Buildin' Me a Home," Or, "[I] Had to Run": Expansive and Safe Space for "Composing" the Human 19.Scriptures: Fathoming a Complex Social-Cultural Phenomenon (2004) 20.Escape: The Launch of the Independent Institute for Signifying Scriptures (2014) 21."I Wish [We] Knew How it Would Feel to be Free": The Subjunctive Mood (2016) 22."If the president does it.it's not illegal.": The Modern Nation/State as the Scriptural (2017) 23."They're Ruining the Game": (Mis)Readers of the Nation-State (2018) 24.
"Who Counts?": Classification as Scripturalization (2019) 25.Scriptures, Race, Nation: Thinking Through Our Mystifications 26.Religion as the Scriptural: Or, the Mimeticization of Reality 27.Scripturalization as Violence 28."Backgrounded by Savagery": Black Flesh as Scripture Afterword: Mr. George Floyd--American Scripture.