publications

recent highlights

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academic publications:

·   Edible Extravagance: The Visual Art of Consumption in the Black Atlantic, under contract with SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, book manuscript in progress, 2025 publication.

·       Flora Fantastic: From Orchidelirium to Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art. Edited by Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas, (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, forthcoming 2024).

·         “Afro-Gothic” special issue in liquid blackness, a Duke University Press journal. Co-Edited by Tashima Thomas and Sybil Cooksey. Essay contribution by Tashima Thomas, “An Ecocritical Look at Flint’s Water Crisis and Afro-Gothic Liquidity,” forthcoming November 2022.

·       “Modern Food as a Banana Skirt,” book chapter, Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food [Edited by Benjamin Cohen, Anna Zeide and Michael Kideckel,] (MIT Press, August 2021).

·       “Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia.” Co-authored with Annie Mendoza, Ph.D. Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, “Food Fights: The Politics of Provisions in Global Perspective,” Vol. 5, Sep. 2019.

·        “Pretty in Pink Polypropylene: Christo’s and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘Surrounded Islands.’” The Journal of Transnational American Studies. Vol. 10, Is. 1, Summer 2019, pp. 163-168.

·        “The Traveling Coconut.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. 31.2 Online Exclusive, Mar 2019.

·       “Sugar Babies: Confections of American Childhood in Vik Muniz’s Sugar Children and Kara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Baby.” American Studies Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3, Jan 2019, pp. 121-141.

·        “Diagram of the Heart,” Exhibition Review, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), African Arts Journal, Winter 2017.

·       “Race and Remix: The Aesthetics of Race and Remix in the Visual Arts,” book chapter, The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

·       “Afrolatinidad in the Visual Arts,” an encyclopedic entry in The Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras, published by ABC-CLIO, 2013.

·       Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas, contributed six exhibition catalogue essays and interviews: published online at www.artzpub.com, 2011.ed elit dignissim aliquam.