This summer, I saw the recent High Line commissions as portals into what Sarah Cervenak and J. Kameron Carter call “the black outdoors”: a space of “gathering” for thinking about how to “hold” instead of “to have.”
Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo
Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University. Her first book, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present, was published by New York University Press in 2018. She's in the midst of manifesting her second book Blackness in the Hills, Horror, and the Photographic Negative.