When he left this position, he was described as having "widened the journal's theoretical and geographic scope while keeping it rooted in its long history of political engagement."
In a discussion of the history of the journal with current editor Michael Hardt, Farred called his editorship of SAQ "the most important political thing I have done in this country in the twenty-one years I've been here."
Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003), Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999), Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (2006), Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (2008), and In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (2014).
[6] The subject of Farred's short 2006 book Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA is described by its publisher as follows: "After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased.
"[7] Farred's 2008 book Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football describes "how 'football' opened up the world to a young boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa.