| Our America: Nativism, modernism, and pluralism WB Michaels Duke University Press, 1995 | 1392 | 1995 |
| The gold standard and the logic of naturalism: American literature at the turn of the century WB Michaels Univ of California Press, 1987 | 1275 | 1987 |
| The trouble with diversity: How we learned to love identity and ignore inequality WB Michaels Macmillan, 2016 | 1008 | 2016 |
| Against theory S Knapp, WB Michaels Critical Inquiry 8 (4), 723-742, 1982 | 652 | 1982 |
| The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History WB Michaels Princeton University Press, 2006 | 560 | 2006 |
| Race into culture: A critical genealogy of cultural identity WB Michaels Critical Inquiry 18 (4), 655-685, 1992 | 367 | 1992 |
| Against theory: Literary studies and the new pragmatism WJ Mitchell, S Knapp, WB Michaels (No Title), 1985 | 316 | 1985 |
| La diversité contre l'égalité W Benn Michaels Lectures, Les livres, 2009 | 165 | 2009 |
| " You who never was there": Slavery and the New Historicism, Deconstruction and the Holocaust WB Michaels Narrative 4 (1), 1-16, 1996 | 150 | 1996 |
| The American Renaissance Reconsidered WB Michaels, DE Pease (No Title), 1985 | 144 | 1985 |
| The Interpreter's Self: Peirce on the Cartesian" Subject" WB Michaels The Georgia Review 31 (2), 383-402, 1977 | 143 | 1977 |
| The Vanishing American WB Michaels American Literary History 2 (2), 220-241, 1990 | 110 | 1990 |
| The souls of white folk WB Michaels Literature and the body: Essays on populations and persons, 185-209, 1988 | 109 | 1988 |
| Against theory 2: Hermeneutics and deconstruction S Knapp, WB Michaels Critical Inquiry 14 (1), 49-68, 1987 | 107 | 1987 |
| Our America: Nativism WB Michaels Modernism, and Pluralism, 29-40, 1995 | 106 | 1995 |
| Against diversity WB Michaels New Left Review 52 (3), 2008 | 103 | 2008 |
| Plots against America: Neoliberalism and antiracism WB Michaels American Literary History 18 (2), 288-302, 2006 | 102 | 2006 |
| The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy WB Michaels University of Chicago Press, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| Autobiography of an ex-white man WB Michaels Transition, 122-143, 1997 | 98 | 1997 |
| ROMANCE AND REAL-ESTATE+ HAWTHORNE'GABLES'AND EMERGING CAPITALISM WB Michaels RARITAN-A QUARTERLY REVIEW 2 (3), 66-87, 1983 | 96 | 1983 |
