• Modern United States History
• African American History
• African History

Berkeley’s Civil Rights Movement
History of Jazz in the Pacific World

• “Berkeley Apartheid: Unfair Housing in a University Town,” History Research, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 321-341
• One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Beacon, 2006)
• Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young (Beacon, 2002)
• “Los Angeles Zoot: ‘Race Riot,’ the Pachuco, and Black Music Culture,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 82 (Spring 1997), pp. 201-220
• “A Conversation with Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison” (50 minute videotape, UCSB Kerr Learning Resources, 1996)
• Charlemagne Péralte and the First American Occupation of Haiti
  translation of Charlemagne Péralte: Un Centenaire, 1885-1995 by Georges Michel (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 1996)
• Peoples of Color in the American West (ed. with Sucheng Chan, et. al.) (D. C. Heath and Co., 1993)
• Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991) (paperback)

• History 169AR: Afro-American History (Colonial)
• History 169BR: Afro-American History (Nineteenth Century)
• History 169CR: Afro-American History (Twentieth Century)
• History 169MR: History of Afro-American Thought
• History 169P: Proseminar in Afro-American History

• San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society Keynote Speaker Award (2005) for Pioneer Urbanites
• Fulbright Fellow, African Regional Research Program (Kenya and Tanzania).
• Fulbright Fellowship for teaching African American History and the History of Jazz and, also, for researching the history of jazz in Japan.
• Consultant, NEH
• Consultant, National Museum of African American Music
• Consultant, Carnegie Hall
• Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities.