“bell hooks’ ‘The Oppositional Gaze’ in Brazil: Translation and Black Diasporic Feminist Thought,” in Traduções da cultura: perspectivas críticas feministas (1970-2010), Claudia JL Costa, Editor (forthcoming, Spring 2017).
Book Review Forum Essay: (Invited) Zenzele Isoke, Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance, for National Political Science Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2015)
“State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment,” in Bridging Scholarship and Activism in a Globalized World: Rethinking Solidarities, Identities, Responsibilities, and Methodologies, Bernd Reiter and Ulrich Oslender, Editors. (East Lansing: Michigan State University, January 2015), pp. 151-170.
“Black Women on the Edge: A Conversation on the Gendered Racial Struggle for Urban Land in Salvador, Brazil,” co-authored with Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha in Grabbing Back: Resistance Against the Global Land Grab, Alexander Reid Ross, Editor (Oakland: AK Press, June 2014), pp. 147-157.
Book Review: (Invited) Nina Jablonski, Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color, for American Ethnologist, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2014), pp. 195-197.
Book Review: (Invited) Polly Wilding, Negotiating Boundaries: Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil, Gender and Development: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2013), pp. 417-419.
"State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment," in Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries, Robert L. Adams Jr., Editor. (New York: Routledge, April 2013).
"The Case for Collaborative Research in Latin America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, y Puerto Rico," co-authored with Joanne Rappaport in Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics, Charles R. Hale and Lynn Stephen (eds.). (Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, May 2013), pp. 30-48.
“Hacia una pedagogía feminista negra en Brasil: Conocimientos de las mujeres negras en los movimientos comunitarios,” in Pedagogías decoloniales: Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re)existir y (re)vivir, Catherine Walsh, Editor. (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, December 2013), pp. 255-274.
Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil (October 1, 2013, University of Minnesota Press).
Book review: Deborah A. Thomas, Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2012), pp. 370-373.
Choice book reviews: Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán, Troubling Gender: Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene (March 2012); Anne Enke, Transfeminist perspectives in and beyond transgender and gender studies (December 2012); A. Kim Clark, Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950 (March 2013).
"State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment," in African and Black Diaspora Studies: An International Journal, Volume 5, Number 1 (2012), pp. 135-154.
"The Black Movement's 'Foot Soldiers': Grassroots Feminism and Neighborhood Struggles in Brazil," in Politics Cultures Identities: Comparative Perspectives on Afro Latin America, Kwame Dixon and John Burdick, Editors, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, February 2012), pp. 219-240.
"Margin of the Margins" in Salvador, Brazil: Black Women Confront the Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion," in Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities, Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna (eds), (New York: Routledge, April 2012), pp. 230-247.
"Espaço Urbano e Memoria Coletiva: O Conhecimento de Mulheres Negras em Lutas Políticas [Urban Space and Collective Memory: Black Women's Knowledge in Political Struggles]," in Questões urbanas e racismo, Renato Emerson dos Santos, Editor, (Brasília: Brazilian Association of Black Researchers, May 2012), pp. 164-215 (In English and Portuguese).
Book review: (Invited) Frank Guridy, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African-Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, Vol. 68. No. 2 (2011), pp. 278-280.
Book review: (Invited) Carole Boyce-Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 12, No's 3& 4 (2010), pp. 522-523.
" 'Margin of the Margins' in Brazil: Black Women Confront the Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion," Inaugural Working Papers Series, Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College, Volume 1, Number 5 (2009).
"'If We Didn't Have Water': Black Women's Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Brazil," in Environmental Justice, Volume 2, Number 1 (2009), pp. 9-13.
"'The Groundings With My Sisters': Toward a Black Diasporic Feminist Agenda in the Americas," in Barnard Center for Research on Women The Scholar and Feminist Online, Issue 7.2, Spring 2009.
"Racialized History and Urban Politics: Black Women's Wisdom in Grassroots Struggles" in Brazil's New Racial Politics, Bernd Reiter and Gladys L. Mitchell, Editors, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, October 2009), pp. 141-164.
Book review: (Invited) Michael A. Gomez, Diasporic Africa: A Reader in The Black Scholar, Vol. 37, No. 4 (2008), pp. 72-73.
"'Daqui não saio, daqui ninguém me tira': Poder e Política na Gamboa de Baixo, Salvador da Bahia ['I will not leave here, no one will take me away from here': Power and Politics in Gamboa de Baixo, Salvador da Bahia]," co-authored with Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha in Revista Gênero, Volume 9, Number 1 (2008), pp. 127-153.
"Politics is uma Coisinha de Mulher (a Woman's Thing): Black Women's Leadership in Neighborhood Movements in Brazil" in Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker, Editors, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, April 2008), pp. 197-211.
Book review: Kia Lilly Caldwell, Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity in Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2007), pp. 526-529.
"Por uma pedagogia feminista negra no Brasil: O aprendizado das mulheres negras em movimentos comunitários [Toward a Black Feminist Pedagogy in Brazil: Black Women's Knowledge in Community Movements]" in Maria Lúcia Rodrigues Muller, Lea Pinheiro Paixão, Editors. Educação, diferenças e desigualdades, 1st Edition. Cuiabá, Brazil: EdUFMT (2006), pp. 161-184 (In Portuguese).
Book review: (Invited) Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism in Cultural Analysis, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. R1-R3.
"Social Memory and Black Resistance: Black Women and Neighborhood Struggles in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil," in The Latin Americanist, Volume 49, Number 1 (2005), pp. 811-831. *This article is The Latin Americanist's top downloaded article from their 2005 list of publications.
"The Roots of Black Resistance: Race, Gender and the Struggle for Urban Land Rights in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil," in Social Identities, Volume 10, Number 6 (2004), pp. 7-38.