This chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Philosophy and Cultural Theory (race and modernity, law, memory and justice); 2. Black Visual Cultural Theory (black contemporary art). Section 1 discusses recent works on W.E.B. Du Bois, racial blackness, Levinas, time, law, postcoloniality, and black social death; Section 2 discusses the history of transatlantic slavery in four contemporary Afro-American artists.