The working title for his dissertation is Sambo, Othello, and Uncle Tom: Caricature, Exoticization, Subalternization, 1700–1900. He left the sport for academia because of relentless racist harassment, and now studies stereotypes of Africans in British painting. He is 26 years old, a Black Londoner (his mother is Yoruba, his father Californian) and a former star polo player. I t’s 2019 in Washington, D.C., and Theo is changing his art-history dissertation after finding a painting of a horse in his neighbor’s giveaway pile.
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