| Faces of environmental racism: Confronting issues of global justice L Westra, BE Lawson Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 | 298 | 2001 |
| Between slavery and freedom: Philosophy and American slavery H McGary, BE Lawson Georgetown University Press, 1992 | 113 | 1992 |
| The underclass question BE Lawson Temple University Press, 1992 | 106 | 1992 |
| Pragmatism and the Problem of Race BE Lawson, DF Koch Indiana University Press, 2004 | 65 | 2004 |
| Frederick Douglass BE Lawson, FM Kirkland Ardent Media, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| Living for the city: Urban United States and environmental justice B Lawson Faces of environmental racism: Confronting issues of global justice, 41-55, 1995 | 36 | 1995 |
| Microphone commandos: rap music and political philosophy BE Lawson | 23 | 2005 |
| Moral discourse and slavery BE Lawson, H McGary, BE Lawson Between slavery and freedom: philosophy and American slavery, 71-89, 1992 | 20 | 1992 |
| Crime, minorities, and the social contract B Lawson Criminal Justice Ethics 9 (2), 16-24, 1990 | 17 | 1990 |
| Between slavery and freedom: philosophy and American slavery BE Lawson | 16 | 1993 |
| Uplifting the race: Middle-class Blacks and the truly disadvantaged B Lawson The underclass question, 90-113, 1992 | 13 | 1992 |
| The value of environmental justice BE Lawson Environmental Justice 1 (3), 155-158, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| Distance, Abstraction, and the Role of the Philosopher in the Pragmatic Approach to Racism G Pappas, DF Koch, B Lawson Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, 22-32, 2004 | 12 | 2004 |
| Douglass among the Romantics BE Lawson, MS Lee The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass, 118-31, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| Social Disappointment and the Black Sense of Self BE Lawson Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, 149-156, 1996 | 11 | 1996 |
| Oppression and slavery BE Lawson Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery, 1-15, 1992 | 11 | 1992 |
| Locke and the Legal Obligations of Black Americans BE Lawson Public Affairs Quarterly 3 (3), 49-63, 1989 | 10 | 1989 |
| Booker T. Washington: A pragmatist at work B Lawson Pragmatism and the problem of race, 125-141, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass C Jencks Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 21, 168-168, 1994 | 9 | 1994 |
| Reparations, Self-Respect, and Public Policy H McGary The Journal 1 (1), 15-26, 1984 | 8 | 1984 |
