Prof. Parker can be seen in the award-winning series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Episode 5: Rise! (1940 - 1968), discussing with Dr. Henry Louis Gates the African-American veterans returning from World War II, themselves changed, but returning to a country still mired in Jim Crow laws. Prof. Parker appears at the seven minute mark.
Christopher S. Parker. “Symbolic versus Blind Patriotism: Distinction without Difference?” Political Research Quarterly 63 (March 2010): 97-114.
Christopher S. Parker. “A Subjective Assessment of Veterans Health Care: From the Veteran's Point of View,” in The Politics of Veterans’ Policy: Federal Policy in the Modern United States, edited by Stephen Ortiz. University of Florida Press, 2012.