2007. When and Where We Enter: Social Context and Desire in Women’s Discourse. Journal of Gender and Language Vol. 1.1:119-129.

2006. Getting Off of Black Women’s Back: Love Her or Leave Her Alone. Du Bois Review, 3.2:1-18. (With Dionne Bennett)

2005. “Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity”. South Atlantic Quarterly 104.3

2004. “Speech Community” in A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. S. Duranti (ed.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

2004. “I’m every woman”: Black women’s (dis)placement in women’s language study” In Mary Bucholtz (ed.) Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.

2003. Signifying Laughter and the Subtleties of Loud-Talking: Memory and Meaning in African American Women’s Discourse In Marcia Farr, (Ed.). Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy In Chicago’s Neighborhoods. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Pub. (Pages 51-76)

2001. “Ain’t Nothin’ But A G Thang”: Grammar, Variation and Language Ideology in Hip Hop Identity” In Sonja Lanehart Ed. African American Vernacular English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Pages 185-207).