Denva Gallant is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University. Her work examines late medieval Italian art, race, and the visual construction of Blackness. She is the author of Illuminating the Vitae patrum (2024) and is completing a second book on Black figures in the medieval imagination.
Denva Gallant
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Writing on Public Books
Extracting Blackness, from the Middle Ages to Today
I could not look at the dismembered Ethiopian leg without feeling the weight of a racial history that has never quite let up.
