| Red, white & black: Cinema and the structure of US antagonisms FB Wilderson III Duke University Press, 2010 | 1889 | 2010 |
| Afropessimismo FB Wilderson III Todavia, 2021 | 618 | 2021 |
| Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? F Wilderson III Social Identities 9 (2), 225-240, 2003 | 450 | 2003 |
| The position of the unthought SV Hartman, FB Wilderson Qui Parle 13 (2), 183-201, 2003 | 363 | 2003 |
| The prison slave as hegemony's (silent) scandal FB Wilderson Social justice 30 (2 (92), 18-27, 2003 | 247 | 2003 |
| Incognegro: A memoir of exile and apartheid FB Wilderson III Duke University Press, 2015 | 151 | 2015 |
| Afro-pessimism and the end of redemption FB Wilderson III Humanities Futures, 2016 | 105 | 2016 |
| The vengeance of vertigo: Aphasia and abjection in the political trials of black insurgents B Frank III InTensions, 2011 | 96 | 2011 |
| Biko and the Problematic of Presence FB Wilderson III Biko lives! contesting the legacies of Steve Biko, 95-114, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| Grammar & ghosts: The performative limits of African freedom FB Wilderson Theatre Survey 50 (1), 119-125, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| The violence of presence: Metaphysics in a blackened world P Douglass, F Wilderson The Black Scholar 43 (4), 117-123, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| Afro-pessimism: An introduction FB Wilderson III, S Hartman, S Martinot, J Sexton, HJ Spillers Minneapolis, MN: Racked & Dispatched, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| “We’re trying to destroy the world”: Anti-blackness and police violence after Ferguson FB Wilderson Shifting corporealities in contemporary performance: danger, im/mobility and …, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Blacks and the master/slave relation FB Wilderson III Afro-pessimism: An introduction, 15-30, 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Social Death and Narrative Aporia in 12 Years a Slave FB Wilderson III Black Camera: An International Film Journal (The New Series) 7 (1), 134-149, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Afro-pessimism P Douglass, SD Terrefe, BW Frank Oxford University Press, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| The Black Liberation Army and the paradox of political engagement FB Wilderson III Postcoloniality-decoloniality-black critique: Joints and fissures, 175-210, 2014 | 31 | 2014 |
| 'The Inside-Outside of Civil Society': An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III. FB Wilderson III Black Studies Papers, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| ‘Raw Life’and the Ruse of Empathy FB Wilderson Performance, politics and activism, 181-206, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| The position of the unthought F Wilderson, S Hartman Qui Parle 13 (2), 183-201, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
