She is the editor of the seminal volume Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town(2001).Race Otherwise:Forging a New Humanism for South Africa is her first monograph, and expresses the full amplitude of Erasmus’s thinking about the ways in which race works. It tunes into registers both personal and social, and has been described thus: ‘not without indignation, and not … insensitive to emotion and … the anger inside South Africa. It is a book that is not afraid of questions of affect. Eros and love, Erasmus urges, are not separable from the hard work of thinking.’ In 2018 Zimitri was a visiting scholar at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, where she conducted research into the work of Sylvia Wynter.