the 2003 Venice Biennale. He is a major contributor to volumes 2, 3 and 4 of Harvard University Press’s “The Image of the Black in Western Art” (new ed., 2010-2012), and a more recent publication, “Contraband [...] “Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture and the Arts in the Civil War Era” (Penn State Press, 2020), extends his research into nineteenth-century American art and literature.