@book{pettis_2002, title={African American poets: Lives, works, and sources}, ISBN={031331117X}, publisher={Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={2002} }
 @inbook{pettis_2002, title={Margaret Walker}, booktitle={The history of Southern women's literature}, publisher={Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press}, author={Pettis, J.}, editor={C. Perry and Weaks, M. L.Editors}, year={2002} }
 @misc{pettis_2001, title={Places of silence, journeys of freedom.  the fiction of Paule Marshall by Eugenia DeLamotte}, volume={33}, number={1}, journal={Research in African Literatures}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2001}, pages={225–226} }
 @article{pettis_2000, title={Qualities of endurance: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones}, volume={30}, number={2}, journal={Black Scholar}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2000}, pages={15–20} }
 @misc{pettis_2000, title={Women of the Harlem Renaissance}, volume={72}, number={1}, journal={American Literature}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2000}, pages={203} }
 @misc{pettis_1999, title={Anything we love can be saved}, volume={33}, number={4}, journal={African American Review}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={1999}, pages={715–716} }
 @article{pettis_barrax_1997, title={An interview with Gerald Barrax}, volume={20}, DOI={10.1353/cal.1997.0056}, number={2}, journal={Callaloo}, author={Pettis, J. and Barrax, G.}, year={1997}, pages={312–326} }
 @inbook{pettis_1997, title={Dance in African American literature}, booktitle={The Oxford companion to African American literature}, publisher={New York: Oxford University Press}, author={Pettis, J.}, editor={W. L. Andrews, F. S. Foster and Harris, T.Editors}, year={1997}, pages={197–199} }
 @inbook{pettis_1997, title={Reading Ann Petry's The Narrows into Black literary tradition}, booktitle={Recovered writers/recovered texts: Race, class and gender in Black women's literature.}, publisher={Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={1997} }
 @misc{pettis_1997, title={Scenes and sentiments for the holidays: Review of Merry Christmas, baby: a Christmas and Kwanzaa treasury / ed by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell.}, volume={73}, number={1997 Dec./Jan.}, journal={Emerge (New York, N.Y.)}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={1997} }
 @book{pettis_1995, title={Toward wholeness in Paule Marshall's fiction}, ISBN={0813916143}, publisher={Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={1995} }