| Emerging Johannesburg R Tomlinson, R Beauregard, L Bremmer, X Mangcu Routledge, 2003 | 166 | 2003 |
| To the brink: The state of democracy in South Africa X Mangcu (No Title), 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Biko: A biography X Mangcu (No Title), 2012 | 91 | 2012 |
| The postapartheid struggle for an integrated Johannesburg R Tomlinson, RA Beauregard, L Bremner, X Mangcu Emerging Johannesburg, 3-20, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| Biko: A life X Mangcu Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| Shattering the myth of a post-racial consensus in South African higher education:“Rhodes Must Fall” and the struggle for transformation at the University of Cape Town X Mangcu Critical Philosophy of Race 5 (2), 243-266, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Decolonizing South African sociology: Building on a shared “text of Blackness” X Mangcu Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 13 (1), 45-59, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| The democratic moment: South Africa's prospects under Jacob Zuma X Mangcu Jacana Media, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| The state of race relations in post-apartheid South Africa X Mangcu State of the nation: South Africa 2004, 105-117, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| The Colour of Our Future: does race matter in post-apartheid South Africa? NG Jablonski, L Blum, S Friedman NYU Press, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| Visions of Black Economic Empowerment G Marcus (No Title), 2007 | 29 | 2007 |
| Ripping the veil off UCT’s whiter shades of pale X Mangcu Sunday Times 6, 18, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Liberating race from Apartheid X Mangcu Transformation, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
| Johannesburg in flight from itself: Political culture shapes urban discourse X Mangcu Emerging Johannesburg, 281-291, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| African modernity and the struggle for people's power: From protest and mobilization to community organizing X Mangcu The Good Society 21 (2), 279-299, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
| What moving beyond race can actually mean: Towards a joint culture X Mangcu The colour of our future, 1-16, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| The Arrogance of Power: South Africa's Leadership Meltdown X Mangcu Tafelberg, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Retracing Nelson Mandela through the Lineage of Black Political Thought X Mangcu Transition: An International Review, 101-116, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Rethinking Africa's political economy: an institutionalist perspective on South Africa X Mangcu Development 55 (4), 477-483, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Emerging Johannesburg: perspectives on the postapartheid city G Gotz, AM Simone, R Tomlinson, R Beauregard, L Bremner, X Mangcu Routledge, 2003 | 10 | 2003 |
