⎯⎯Public Writing⎯⎯
Public scholarship and academic essays written for a general audience
“We Need Action to Accompany Art”
The Boston Globe (June 11, 2020)
This solicited op-ed offers a critical lens to view state-sanctioned public art as “black aesthetic emplacement.”
This solicited op-ed offers a critical lens to view state-sanctioned public art as “black aesthetic emplacement.”
“Race and the Quarantined City/What Black America Knows About Quarantine”
The New York Times (May 15, 2020)
This solicited op-ed discusses the long history of Black spatial containment and marginalization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This solicited op-ed discusses the long history of Black spatial containment and marginalization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Black Aesthetic/Aesthetic Black: Race, Space, and the
Possibilities of Becoming
Public Seminar (May 2018)
This solicited piece discusses the productivity of blackness, and the mutual constitution of “black aesthetics” and “blackness as an aesthetic.”
Public Seminar (May 2018)
This solicited piece discusses the productivity of blackness, and the mutual constitution of “black aesthetics” and “blackness as an aesthetic.”
“Black Lives Under Surveillance”
Public Books (December 2016)
A review essay on Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation that draws connections between race, surveillance, and capitalism.
Public Books (December 2016)
A review essay on Simone Browne’s Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation that draws connections between race, surveillance, and capitalism.