Articles and Book Chapters
Pink in Hip-Hop
Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip-Hop Style catalog (Rizzoli International, 2023) Co-authored with Elena Romero.
Once Upon a Time in Nigeria…
On Orange Culture. Africa Fashion catalog (Victoria & Albert Museum, 2022).
Come Through, Ms. Turner…Come Through
Amongst Friends: Photographs of Lana Turner by Dario Calmese, (projects + gallery, 2018)
Pantomime: Global Modernism’s Harlequinade
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism. Eds. Rebecca Walkowitz and Eric Hayot. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Black, Queer, Dandy: ‘the Beauty Without Whom We Cannot Seem to Live’
NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art, 38-39 (Fall 2016, special issue on Black Portraiture).
‘Joy, Creation, Being’: On Dandy Lion (Re) Articulating Black Masculinity
Photoworks Annual/Brighton Photo Biennale 23: Self-Styled catalog (Brighton, UK: Photoworks, 2016)
All Hail the Q.U.E.E.N.: Janelle Monáe and a Tale of the Tux
NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art 37 (Fall 2015, special issue on Black Fashion: Art, Pleasure, Politics).
“Fresh-Dressed Like a Million Bucks”: Hip Hop Dandyism
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion exhibition catalog, Rhode Island School of Design Museum/Yale University Press (2013)
An Interview with Iké Udé: Mining the Opposition…is my Great Refusal
Iké Udé: Style and Sympathies: New Photographic Works (Leila Heller Gallery, 2013)
The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist
Bad Modernisms. Eds. Rebecca Walkowitz and Douglas Mao. Durham: Duke University Press, December 2005.
Black Dandy
The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, vol. 2. Ed. Colin Palmer. Macmillan Reference, 2006.