Selected Publications/Essays/Articles

“Spirit House: John Scott’s Iconographic Portraits of New Orleans,” Guest Editorial essay for Thematic Update/Community Spotlight re: New Orleans, (http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/featureded/guest.jsp); Oxford African American Studies Center, Henry Louis Gates, Editor-in-Chief (Oxford University Press, 2015); (http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/letters/letter.jsp).

“African Americans in New Orleans: A Visual History,” Guest Editorial Photo-essay for Thematic Update/Community Spotlight re: New Orleans, Oxford African American Studies Center; Henry Louis Gates, Editor-in-Chief (Oxford University Press, 2015); See http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/current/index.jsp

“London Bridge: Late 20^th Century British Art and the Routes of “National Culture,” (Recollections section), Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 12, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Fall 2013 (Special issue, edited by Eddie Chambers, re: Black Artists in Europe).

“John McCrady’s “Southern Eccentric” Regionalism: Negro Maskers from the “Mardi Gras Day” series of 1948,” Publication chapter for Contemporary Scholars and Artists Respond to the Baby Dolls of New Orleans, an anthology of texts re: the New Orleans Baby Doll masquerading tradition, compiled and edited by Dr. Kim Vaz (Publication date: Fall 2017).

Catalogue entries, DIA Bulletin, Vol. 86/African American Art (published by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Fall 2012) for the following images: Hughie Lee Smith, Boy with a Tire, 1952; P.H. Polk, George Washington Carver in the Laboratory, 1930; Edward Clark, Maple Red, 1963, and Elizabeth Catlett, Terra-Cotta Head, c. 1960.

“Yesterday’s Doorway: John Scott’s Iconographic Portraits of New Orleans,” in exhibition catalogue for A John Scott Retrospective, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, 2008.

“Brides of Christ, Servants to the Poor: Tracing the Legacy of the Sisters of the Holy Family,” in exhibition catalogue for A Celebration of Faith: Henriette Delille and the Sisters of the Holy Family, New Orleans Museum of Art, Culture and History, 2008.

“Everyday People: Vanley Burke and the Ghetto as Genre,” in Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2005 (Including contributors Richard J. Powell, David A. Bailey and Petrine Archer-Straw (exhibition co-curators), Kellie Jones, Kathleen Cleaver, Kodwo Eshun, Manthia Diawara and Paul Gilroy).

“The Satirical Paintings and Engravings of William Hogarth,” in Anita Jeni McKenzie, ed., Contrasts, Textures and Hues: Exploring Early Printed Images of People of African and Asian Heritage, London: McKenzie Heritage Pictures, 2004.

“Raised to the Trade: An Introduction,” in Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, exhibition catalogue, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 2002 (Including contributors Dr. Jay D. Edwards, Dr. Nick Spitzer and Dr. John Michael Vlach).

“Under My Skin: Narratives of Migration, Classification and Contagion in the Art of Rina Banerjee,” in Antenna: The Art of Rina Banerjee, exhibition brochure, Bose Pacia Modern, New York, 2000 (Including contributors Deepali Dewan and Sujata Moorti).

“The Art of Ben Jones: Performance, Power and Cultural Survival,” in Sisters of Spirit: Art by Ben Jones, exhibition brochure, Jose Marti National Library, Havana, Cuba, 2000 (Including introduction by Alejandro Anreus).

“`New’ England: Notes on Art, Migration and National Identity”, International Review of African American Art (vol. 15, no. 3, 1998).

“London Bridge: Late Twentieth-Century British Art and the Routes of National Culture,” exhibition catalogue, Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966–1996, Caribbean Cultural Center, 1997. Distributed by The University of Chicago Press. (Edited by Mora Beauchamp-Byrd and Franklin Sirmans, including contributors Eddie Chambers, Okwui Enwezor, Kobena Mercer, Gilane Tawadros, Anne Walmsley, Deborah Willis and Judith Wilson.)

“An Aesthetic of Survival: The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Catlett,” exhibition catalogue, Struggle and Serenity: The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Caribbean Cultural Center, 1996. (Including contributor Floyd Coleman.)