“Sticking it to the Man”: Neoliberalism, Corporate Media, and Strategies of Resistance in the 21st Century,” in Janice Peck and Inger L. Stole (eds.) A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of U.S. Communication Since World War II, Marquette University Press, 2011.
“Play it Again, (Uncle) Sam: A Brief History of US Imperialism, Propaganda, and the News,” in Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff (eds.) Project Censored 2015, pp. 299-318, 2014.
“A New Era?: The 2008 Elections, Public Opinion, and the Mass Media,” Fifth Estate Online, International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, November, 2008.
“Heroes, Victims, and Veils: Women’s Liberation and the Rhetoric of Empire Post 9/11,” Forum on Public Policy (journal of the Oxford Roundtable), 2008.
“Jihad Jane: Constructing the New Muslim Enemy,” Fifth Estate Online, International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism, April, 2010
Kumar, D., “Race, Ideology, and Empire,” Dialectical Anthropology, Vol 39, Issue 1, 2015. This issue of DA was dedicated to essays critically appraising Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, and my invited essay responds to the solicited essays.
Kumar, D. “Mass Media, Class and Democracy: The Struggle Over Newspaper Representation of the UPS Strike,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2001, pp. 85-302.
“War Propaganda and the (Ab)uses of Women: Media Constructions of the Jessica Lynch Story,” Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, November, 2004.
Lead article: “‘What’s Good for UPS is Good for America’: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike,” Television and New Media, Vol. 6, No. 2, May, 2005.
“Unveiling Imperialism: Media, Gender, and the War on Afghanistan,” with Carol Stabile, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 27, no. 5, September, 2005