He is the editor of Yusef Komunyakaa’s Condition Red (2016) and Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (2000). He has published articles on nineteenth-century circum-Atlantic visual culture and contemporary black music, and his documentary film work has been screened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Arts Center, and University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. His forthcoming book, Graphic Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual (New York University Press), examines the ocularcentric roots of American anti-slavery rhetoric.