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Banks, Patricia A. 2014. “Art Ownership as Wealth Accumulation.” Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. New York: Springer.


Banks, Patricia A. 2013. “Collecting Kara Walker.” Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). Exhibition Catalog. South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.


Banks, Patricia A. 2012. “Cultural Capital.” in J. Banks (ed) Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. London: Sage.

Banks, Patricia A. 2012. Invited review of Diane Grams. Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press). American Journal of Sociology 117 (4): 1284-1286.


Banks, Patricia A. 2011. Invited review of Daniel Widener. Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (2): 397-398.


Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Invited review of Kimberly Eison Simmons. Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic. (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(6): 1142.


Appointed as Co-Editor-In-Chief of Poetics.


Presenting-“Diversity Capital: Corporate Support of Black Culture,” Culture, Organizations, and Identities panel. Southern Sociological Society, April 2019, Atlanta, GA