Her work focuses on blackness in the visual and aesthetic field, and her essays on contemporary African American art, black cinema and visual culture, and race and capital have appeared in Camera Obscura, Adaptation, the World Picture Journal, Black Camera (forthcoming), and several anthologies. Raengo is the author of On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value (Dartmouth College Press, 2013) and Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled (Bloomsbury, 2016). With Robert Stam, she has also coedited two anthologies on adaptation studies, Literature and Film (Blackwell, 2004) and A Companion to Literature and Film (Blackwell, 2005).