Dr. Riché D. Richardson 

JOURNAL ESSAYS

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n.d.      “Slaves to Love:  White Masculine Possessions and Obsessions in New Novels of Slavery.” 

 

n.d.        “Richard Wright, Black Power and Chinese Poster Art.” 

 

n.d.        “Thinking Ta-Nehisi Coates.” 

 

n.d.        “Neo-Condi Rice.” 

 

2016   “The Eight Debate:  The Hottentot, the Handmaid and the Octomom.”  Labrys. 29 (2016). 

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2015    “From the 'Summer of Faulkner' to Oprah's Obama:  What We Can Learn from Joe Christmas and Miss Jane Pittman."  “The Summer of Faulkner:  Oprah’s Book Club, William Faulkner, and 21st Century

America.”  Ed. Jaime Harker, Jay Watson, and Cecilia Konchar Farr.  The Mississippi Quarterly 3(2013):  459-486.  

 

2014    "'The Bed Intruder' -News Video Goes Viral:  Antoine Dodson as Internet Celebrity and Commodity." “On Gender and Sexuality.”  Ed. Amber Johnson.  Technoculture:  An Online Journal of Technology in    Society 4(2014). (online) 

 

2014      “Monumentalizing Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks in the Post-Civil Rights Era.”  “The Genius of Black Women:  One Hundred Years of Triumph.”  Ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Paula Giddings.  Phillis:   The Journal for Research on African American Women  2:1 (2014):  23-30. 
 

2013    “Framing Rosa Parks in Reel Time.”  Southern Quarterly 4(2013):  54-65.   

 

2012     “Push, Precious and New Narratives of Slavery and Harlem.”  Black Camera 4 (2012):  161-180.

 

2010     “Kara Walker’s Old South and New Terrors.”  NKA:  Journal of Contemporary African Art 25(2009):   48-59. 

 

2009     “Binding Nations through Art Quilts and a Trip to the U.S. Embassy in France as a Cultural Envoy.”   TransAtlantica:  American Studies Journal  2 (2009). (online) 

 

2007     “Madame Kara Walker:  Notre Artiste.”  TransAtlantica:  American Studies Journal  2(2007). (online)

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2007     “Southern Horrors, Global Terrors.”  Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire 7(2007):  128-39. 

 

2006      “The U.S. South and the World.”  American Literature 78 (2006):  722-24. 

 

2005    "The Geography of Black Masculinity and Charles Fuller’s Southern Specter."  American Literature 77(2005):  7-32.

 

2004    "'A House Set Off from the Rest':  Ralph Ellison's Rural Geography."  Forum for Modern Language Studies 40 (2004):  126-144.

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2004     Commentary.  Concluding Roundtable: Postcolonial Theory, the U.S. South, and New World Studies.  The Mississippi Quarterly.  57:1 (Winter 2003/2004): 171-194

 

2004    “Southern Turns.”  The Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2003):  555-577.

 

2003    "'The Birth of a Nation 'Hood':  Lessons from Thomas Dixon and D.W. Griffith to William Bradford Huie and The Klansman, O.J. Simpson's First Movie."  The Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2002-03):  3-31.

 

ESSAYS IN BOOKS 

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n.d        “The Blackness in Stepford and the Shadow of the Southern Gothic.”

 

n.d.        “Bring in da’ Dirty South:  The Uncle Huck-a-Buck Stereotype and Black Southern Masculinity.”  Ed.  Gene Melton and Catherine Mainland.  Silenced Masculinities.(submitted)

 

n.d.        The Nat Turner Revolution and Confronting "Confessions" in Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation.  Ed. Suzette Spencer.  (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press). (submitted)

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2021      “Beyoncé’s South and a ‘Formation’ Nation.”  Finding Art, Activism, and Community with Beyoncé.  Ed. Christina Baade and Kristin McGee (Middletown, Connecticut:  Wesleyan University Press).  

 

2021     “A Ride to New Futures with Rosa Parks:  Producing Public Scholarship and Community Art.”  Scholars as Humans:  Enacting the Liberal Arts in Public.  Ed. Debra Ann Castillo and Anna Bartel (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press).

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2020   "No Longer "Obsolete" and "Dangerous," but Still Single:  Masculinity and Marriage in African American Film at the Dawn of the 21st Century.”  #Black Relationships. Ed., Tapo Chimbganda (Lexington Books:  Rowman and Littlefield).

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2019     “The Truth Sleuth:  The Detective Journalism of William Bradford Huie and Thulani Davis’s Everybody’s Ruby.”  Detecting the South:  The Intersections of Film Noir, the Detective Genre and the   Southern Imaginary, Ed. Deborah Barker.  (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press).

 

2018     Foreword.  He Slew the Dreamer by William Bradford Huie.  (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2018).

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2017     “’A Little Bit Too Much Africa for Me’:  Steve Harvey, Black Sexuality and the Global South in Still Trippin’.”  Sex and Sexuality in the Recent South, Ed., Trent Watts (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State   University Press).

 

2016    “From ‘My Old Man’ to Race Men in Quicksand.”  Approaches to Teaching Nella Larsen, Ed. Jacquelyn  Y. McLendon.  Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

 

2016    “Romance/Abjection.”  Critical Terms for Southern Studies.  Ed., Scott Romine and Jennifer Greeson (Athens:  University of Georgia Press , 2016).

 

2015    “Artistically Re-Creating and Re-Imagining Mammy, Rhett and Scarlett.”  New Approaches to Gone with the Wind.”  Ed. Andy Crank.  (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2015).

 

2015    “E-Raced:  Trayvon, Twitter and Touré.”  The Trouble with Postblackness.  Ed. Houston A. Baker Jr. and Merinda Simmons (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2015), 93-109.

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2014  “Oprah’s Faulkner.”  Ed. Peter Lurie and Ann J. Abadie.  Faulkner and Film (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2014), 120-145 

      

2013    “Remodeling the Black Family in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself.”  The Tyler Perry Reader.   Ed. Ronald Lee Jackson and Jamel Bell. (New York:  Routledge, 2013), 288-299.

 

2011     Postscript.  “Black Masculinity and New Precedents.”  Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men:  Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature.  Ed. Peter Caster and Tim Buckrest (Cleveland:  The Ohio State University Press, 2011), 246-254.

 

2011    “'Mammy’s Mules and the Rules of Marriage in Gone with the Wind.”  American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary.  Ed. Kathryn McKee and Deborah Barker (Athens:  University of Georgia Press,

 2011), 52-78.

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2000    “Blundering the O.J. Simpson Verdict:  Black Female Subjectivity, Pedagogy, and the Personal.”  Blundering for a Change:  Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy.  Ed. John   Tassoni and William Thelin (London:  Heinemann, 2000).