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Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews
Call Number: DA125 .N4 A58 2019
ISBN: 9781786992772
Publication Date: 2019-10-25
"Back to Black traces the long and eminent history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today. At its core it argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet this Black radical tradition has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency, inclusivity and force for global change. Kehinde Andrews explores the true roots of this tradition, and connects the dots to today's struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century."--Publisher's website.
Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century by Pero G. Dagbovie
Call Number: E184.65 .D345 2018
Publication Date: 2018
"In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of Black history, including its historical icons, has been shaped by institutions and individuals outside academic ivory towers. Drawing on a range of compelling examples, Dagbovie explores how, in the twenty-first century, African American history is regarded, depicted, and juggled by diverse and contesting interpreters--from museum curators to film-makers, entertainers, politicians, journalists, and bloggers. Underscoring the ubiquitous nature of African American history in contemporary American thought and culture, each chapter unpacks how Black history has been represented and remembered primarily during the "Age of Obama," the so-called era of "post-racial" American society." - Publisher
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin; Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.61 .B2 2012
Publication Date: 2012
"Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being Black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many Black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.” - Publilsher
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: E185.61 .B195 1993
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
"A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington... With clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication." - Publisher
I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Pictue Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin; Raoul Peck
Call Number: E185.61 .B196 2017
Publication Date: 2017
"In his final years, Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin’s oeuvre to compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.

Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been... This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film." - Publisher
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: E185.61 .D38 2005
Publication Date: 2005
"Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison." - Publisher
Black Lives 1900: W. E. B. du Bois at the Paris Exposition by Henry Louis Gates (Contribution by); W. E. B. Du Bois; Jacqueline Francis (Introduction by); Stephen G. Hall (Introduction by); David Adjaye (Foreword by)
Call Number: E185.86 .D83 2019
Publication Date: 2019
"At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W. E. B. Du Bois organized an exhibit demonstrating the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualizations, hand-drawn charts, maps and photographs he showed the changing status of a newly emancipated people across the United States and more specifically in Georgia, the state with the largest Black population.

W. E. B. Du Bois became the most influential Black civil rights activist of the first half of the twentieth century. His exhibit at the Paris Exposition continues to resonate as a powerful affirmation of the equal rights of Black Americans to lives of freedom and fulfillment. " - Publisher
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten; Stefano Harney
Call Number: E185.86 .H328 2013
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
"In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the Black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique...Working from and within the social poesis of life in the undercommons Moten and Harney develop and expand an array of concepts: study, debt, surround, planning, and the shipped. " - Publisher
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: E185.86 .H378 2019
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young Black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of Black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the Black family."-- Publisher's description.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
Call Number: E185.86 .H734 1981
Publication Date: 1999
"A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Black womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. " - Publisher
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by Bell Hooks
Call Number: E185.86 .H734 1989
Publication Date: 1999
"In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical* essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible." - Publisher
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller
Call Number: E185.89 .F37 M55 2009
Publication Date: 2009
"A pioneering cultural history of the Black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro-British artist who not only styles himself as a fop but also creates ironic commentaries on Black dandyism in his work. Interpreting performances and representations of Black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to Black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora." - Book jacket
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits by Deborah Willis (Editor); Marc Pachter (Afterword by); Lonnie G. Bunch (Introduction by)
Call Number: E185.96 .W574 2007
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
"Inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery and the International Center of Photography."
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele
Call Number: E185.97 .K43 A3 2020
Publication Date: 2020
"In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin." - Publisher
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other Black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on Black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here"-- Provided by publisher.
Jill Freedman: Resurrection City 1968 by Jill Freedman (By (photographer), Text by); Steven Kasher (Editor); John Edwin Mason (Text by); Aaron Bryant (Text by)
Call Number: E185.615 .F73 2017
Publication Date: 2018-03-27
"Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to announce a major exhibition, Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968. The exhibition features over 70 black and white vintage prints of photographs made by Jill Freedman in the protest camp built on the Washington Mall as the culmination of the Poor People's Campaign. Freedman's sustained pictorial effort is one of the lasting achievements of photography as social protest in America. This work was published in book form in 1971, but has never been exhibited previously. This exhibition coincides with the release of a new book, Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968, published by Damiani, and marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." - Steven Kasher Gallery
Futures of Black Radicalism by Gaye Theresa Johnson (Editor); Alex Lubin (Editor)
Call Number: E185.615 .F88 2017
Publication Date: 2017
"With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism. Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarly voices from a wide array of disciplines recalls the powerful tradition of Black radicalism as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries while defining new directions for Black radical thought." - Publisher
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
Call Number: E185.615 .L393 2017
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
"Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of Black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity--and not just equal rights--of Black people. The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement." - Book jacket
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson; Mariame Kaba (Foreword by); Zoe? Samudzi
Call Number: E185.625 .S268 2018
Publication Date: 2018
"As Black as Resistance makes the case for a new program of self-defense and transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework that the authors liken to the Black experience itself. This book argues against compromise and negotiations with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation." - Back cover
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E907 .C63 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
"'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era Black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a Black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's 'first white president.' But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. The essays also examine the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period -- and the effects of the persistent shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history. Coates relays the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective: the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. Some of the pieces first published in The Atlantic, including 'Fear of a Black President,' 'The Case for Reparations,' and 'The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.' Eight fresh essays revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by an assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era."
Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism by Rinaldo Walcott
Call Number: F1035 .N3 R83 2000
Publication Date: 2000
"Rude is an anthology of critical writing on Black Canadian culture. The anthology is meant to convey the idea of a burgeoning response to Black Canadian cultural expression and what it means both for various Black communities and the Canadian nation... Rude fills a void in the Canadian cultural landscape, where Black responses to the nation are always framed in terms of anti-racism. It attempts to open debate among and across Black communities in Canada, to uncover the complexities of Black life and Black living." - Back cover
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin
Call Number: FC2947.4 .A88 2013
Publication Date: 2013-05-27
"In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean–people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers across the country–raising state security fears about Montreal as the new hotbed of international Black radical politics." - Publisher
Do Some Great Thing : The Black Pioneers of British Columbia by Crawford Kilian
Call Number: FC3850 .B55 K55 2008
Publication Date: 2008-11-15
"Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official." -- Harbour Publishing Website
African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger Abrahams
Call Number: GR111 .A47 A38 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-09
"Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and got to be the way it is, to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They includes stories set down in travelers' reports and plantation journals from the early nineteenth century, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean."
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation by Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist); Liz Munsell (Editor); Greg Tate (Editor); Carlo McCormick (Text by); J. Faith Almiron (Text by)
Call Number: GT3913 .N72 N8 2020
Publication Date: 2020
"The post-graffiti moment in 1980s New York City marked the transition of street art from city walls and subway trains onto canvas and into the art world. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) became the galvanizing, iconic frontrunner of this transformational and insurgent movement in contemporary American art, which resulted in an unprecedented fusion of creative energies that defied longstanding racial divisions. This exhibition features his works in painting, sculpture, drawing, video, music, and fashion, alongside works by his contemporaries." - Publisher
Dandy Lion: the Black Dandy and Street Style by Shantrelle P. Lewis
Call Number: GT6720 .L49 2017
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
This book evolved out of a 2015 exhibition by Shantrelle P. Lewis at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Dandy Lion explores the history, personalities, and evolution of the Black dandy style, demonstrating the influences which fashion can hold in a society. It includes depictions and stories of a wide-ranging selection of designers, tailors, photographers, celebrities, and everyday people. Their choices of the colours, styles, and cut of their suits become a powerful, subversive form of resistance. “[The Black dandy] defies monolithic understandings of what it is to be a man -- particularly a Black man -- through a colorful and complex dance between race, class, gender, power and style.”
Black Feminism Reimagined : After Intersectionality by Jennifer C. Nash
Call Number: HQ1197 .N37 2019
Publication Date: 2019-02-08
This book is also available online as an eBook.
"In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes Black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that Black feminism has been marked by a single affect--defensiveness--manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can Black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash Black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities." -- Publisher's description
We Wanted a Revolution: Back Radical Women, 1965-85: A Sourcebook by Catherine Janet Morris (Editor); Rujeko Hockley (Editor); Connie H. Choi; Carmen Hermo; Stephanie Weissberg; Brooklyn Museum Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: HQ1421 .W4 2017
Publication Date: 2017-04-21
This "sourcebook gathers selected writings in order to situate radical art-making within the broader sociopolitical context of the period. It highlights the artists' and writers' own voices, in primary sources and original documents pertaining to several significant historical events, activist artist groups, and key exhibitions." - page 19
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85: New Perspectives by Catherine Morris (Editor); Rujeko Hockley (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1421 .W4 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-05
Illustrated volume to accompany an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, including an introduction by the exhibition co-curators; three scholarly critical essays; remarks from a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition on April 21, 2017, consisting of personal reminiscences of the theater group Rodeo Caldonia; exhibition installation photographs with texts of the section introductions; an exhibition checklist; and a bibliography. An epigraph of two poems by Alice Walker appear after the half-title page.
How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1426 .H689 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
"In the last several years, Black feminism has reemerged as the analytical framework for the activist response to the oppression of trans women of color, the fight for reproductive rights, and, of course, the movement against police abuse and violence. The most visible organizations and activists connected to the Black Lives Matter movement speak openly about how Black feminism shapes their politics and strategies today. The interviews compiled in this book -- with the three authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Alicia Garza, and historian and activist Barbara Ransby -- are an attempt to show how these politics remain historically vibrant and relevant to the struggles of today."
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: HV8665 .D38 2003
ISBN: 9781583225813
Publication Date: 2003-08-05
Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the abolition of the prison. As she notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable.
In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis (Editor)
Call Number: HV9471 .D38 2016
Publication Date: 2016-11-08
"With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of Black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis's arrest and imprisonment-the political prisoner. Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its Black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of Black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published." - From the Trade Paperback edition
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
Call Number: JC571 .D33275 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-09
'In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.
Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "Freedom is a constant struggle."' -- Publisher's Website
Omniverse Sun Ra by Hartmut Geerken & Chris Trent
Call Number: ML156.7 .S84 G44 2015
Publication Date: 2015
"For five decades, Sun Ra brightened planet Earth with his unique, provocative and esoteric musical philosophy. Touring the world with his formidable Arkestra, he represented and affirmed a new vision of Black history and culture, embodied and spread a new and powerfully influential Black philosophy, and revolutionized music with sounds from beyond the purple star zone." - Publisher
Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark Bradford by Carter E. Foster
Call Number: N6537 .B6813 A4 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Catalog of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sept. 14-Dec. 2007.
Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode by Trevor Schoonmaker
Call Number: N6537 .B6813 A4 2007a
Publication Date: 2007
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Street level : Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, March 29-July 29, 2007
Mark Bradford by Christopher Bedford; Hilton Als; Robert Storr; Richard Shiff; Katy Siegel; Carol Eliel; Hamza Walker; Eungie Joo
Call Number: N6537 .B6813 A4 2010
ISBN: 9780300163582
Publication Date: 2010-06-22
"Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. Gathering carefully chosen found and salvaged materials from the area surrounding his studio in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bradford engages in an intricate artistic process that involves both creation and destruction. His complex, fractured works address pressing political issues and the media's influence on contemporary society while cataloguing cultural change and the artist's personal responses to societal conditions. The first major book on this leading American artist, Mark Bradford features essays by distinguished authors who investigate how Bradford straddles the line between social critique and formal innovation, playing the two against one another to produce works of seduction and analysis. Topics include Bradford's debt to abstract expressionism, his relationship to the largely unknown history of twentieth-century abstraction by African American artists, his work as a public artist, and his interest in midcentury European collage and decollage practices."--BOOK JACKET.
Nick Cave : Epitome by Andrew Bolton; Elvira Dyangani Ose; Nato Thompson
Call Number: N6537 .C38 A4 2014
Publication Date: 2014-09-22
I have always been so inspired and amazed by Nick Cave’s work. I had the privilege of seeing a Soundsuit in person at the Seattle Art Museum, where it was installed as part of the Lessons from the Institute of Empathy exhibition in the African art galleries. The Emily Carr University Library has two books about Nick Cave’s work, as well as an exhibition catalogue. However, it’s far more impressive to see his Soundsuits move, so I recommend watching this Art21 episode about Nick Cave and his work.
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth by Dan Cameron (Text by); Nick Cave (Artist); Kate Eilertsen (Text by); Pam McClusky (Text by)
Call Number: N6537 .C384 A4 2009
Publication Date: 2010
"Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features sculptures that Cave calls Soundsuits, to evoke the sense of movement, rattles and rustles inherent in the design of the pieces—which are composed of manufactured and handmade fabrics, such as beads, sequins, bottle caps, old toys, twigs and hair, and seem poised to explode into ritual dance. Exploring issues of ceremony, ritual, identity and myth, they embrace various traditions, as well as cultural and historical references, from African fetish objects to Japanese Butoh dance." - Publisher
Ellen Gallagher: Preserve by Jeff Fleming (Contribution by); Robin D. G. Kelley (Contribution by); Catherine De Zegher (Contribution by); Sheila Schwartz; Susan L. Talbott (Introduction by)
Call Number: N6537 .G355 A4 2001b
Publication Date: 2001-11-02
"This publication accompanies Ellen Gallagher's exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, which features twenty new drawings and a site-specific sculpture. In all of her work, Gallagher merges traditional abstraction with social commentary; this surprising union results in engaging and poetic works that examine the cultural signs of race. " - Publisher
Theaster Gates: Black Archive by Thomas D. Trummer (Editor); Romi Crawford (Contribution by); Thomas Trummer (Editor); Theaster Gates (Artist)
Call Number: N6537 .G3854 A4 2017
ISBN: 9783863359133
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
"The transformation of everyday and urban detritus is one of Theaster Gates' fundamental artistic strategies, one lending it to a new value as art. The partly newly created works and space-grabbing sculptures also following this attitude. Gates' work as a strategy of archiving and recycling, preservation and innovation as a form of critical analysis of social issues are analyzed by Romi Crawford and Thomas D. Trummer. In a conversation with Hamza Walker, Gates himself explains his work and, in particular, his artistic concept underlying the exhibition in Bregenz. The exhibition Black Archive is impressively documented by large format installation images."--Publisher's website.
Glenn Ligon: America by Scott Rothkopf; Franklin Sirmans (Contribution by); Adam D. Weinberg (Foreword by); Hilton Als (Contribution by); Saidiya Hartman (Contribution by); Okwui Enwezor (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6537 .L535 A4 2011
Publication Date: 2011-04-26
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar. 10-June 5, 2011; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 23, 2011-Jan. 22, 2012; and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Tex. Feb.-May 2012.
Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I am a Man) by Gregg Bordowitz
Call Number: N6537 .L535 A78 2018
ISBN: 9781846381928
Publication Date: 2018-04-13
"The iconic work Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) by the important contemporary American artist Glenn Ligon is a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact. The National Gallery of Art in Washington presents the work as a "representation--a signifier--of the actual signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis, made famous by Ernest Withers' 1968 photographs." In this illustrated study of the work, Gregg Bordowitz takes the National Gallery's presentation as his starting point, considering the museum's juxtaposition of Untitled (I Am a Man) and the ca. 1935 sculpture, Schoolteacher, by William Edmondson, and the relation of the two terms, "markers" and "signs." After closely examining the canvas itself, its textures, brushwork, and structure, Bordowitz presents a theoretical framework that draws on the work of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and his theory of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. He makes a case for Thirdness as a function, operation, or law of meaning-making, not limited by the gender, age, ethnicity, race, class, or personal history of the viewer. Bordowitz goes on to examine Ligon's work in terms of the representation of self, race, and gender, focusing on three series: Profile Series (1990-91), Narratives, and Runaways (both 1993). He cites such historical figures as Sojourner Truth and her famous 1851 speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" as well as influences ranging from Bo Diddley's 1955 song, "I'm a Man" to the cultural theories of Stuart Hall."
One True Thing: Meditations on Black Aesthetics by Kerry James Marshall; Jeff Donaldson (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6537 .M378 A4 2003
ISBN: 0933856792
Publication Date: 2003-11-02
Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Oct. 25, 2003-Jan.18, 2004 and four other museums in 2004-2005.
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions by Mark Pascale; Ruth Fine (Essay by)
Call Number: N6537 .P89 A4 2015
ISBN: 9780300184549
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
"American sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) creates work that combines the clean elegance of minimalism and the simplicity of traditional materials. His stunning sculptures explore themes of identity, ethnicity, and history, and are rich with social and cultural commentary. Puryear, who is known for abstract, large-scale pieces in wood, stone, and bronze, has captured the attention of the art world for the past 30 years. Despite the apparent simplicity of his works, however, he engages in an extensive iterative process that has, until now, been unknown. Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions explores that process, featuring numerous drawings, prints, and small-scale sculptures that have never before been published. This catalogue is the first to examine Puryear's work across media, providing invaluable insight into his visual thinking, from sketches to working drawings and constructions for sculpture. Handsomely illustrated with nearly 120 color plates that demonstrate the evolution of Puryear's ideas between drawings, prints, and sculptures, this beautiful volume draws back the curtain on the methodology of this important and enigmatic artist. "-- Provided by publisher.
Sondra Perry: Typhoon Coming On by Sondra Perry (Artist), Hans Ulrich Obrist (foreword), Yana Peel (foreword)
Call Number: N6537 .P425 A4 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
An exhibition publication for "Sondra Perry : Typhoon Coming On", held at the Serpentine Galleries-Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, 2018. For more information on the exhibition you can watch Perry discuss the inspirations, technology and ideas behind her work in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist. The same link also shows a discussion between Sondra Perry and Cauleen Smith.
Faith Ringgold by Lisa E. Farrington; Faith Ringgold; David C. Driskell (Foreword by)
Call Number: N6537 .R55 F37 2004
Publication Date: 2004
An examination of the personal and professional life of Faith Ringgold, an American painter, writer, sculptor, printmaker, activist and art quilter.
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment by Katharine Derosier Weiss (Contribution by); James Christen Steward; Richard Cándida Smith; Sean Ulmer; Kellie Jones; Lowery Stokes Sims; Deborah Willis
Call Number: N6537 .S2 A4 2005a
Publication Date: 2005-11-21
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Oct. 15, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; at the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, Mar. 18-June 11, 2006; and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Sept. 8-Dec. 3, 2006.
Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer by Betye Saar (Artist); Miuccia Prada (Foreword by); Deborah Willis (Text by); Patrizio Bertelli (Foreword by); Richard Powell (Text by); Kellie Jones (Text by); Mario Mainetti (Editor); Chiara Costa (Editor); Elvira Dyangani Ose (Editor)
Call Number: N6537 .S2 A4 2016
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
"Uneasy Dancer brings together over 80 works including installations, assemblages, collages and sculptures by the pioneering Los Angeles artist Betye Saar (born 1926) produced between 1966 and 2016. This handsomely designed volume presents Saar's work as a copiously illustrated timeline, with numerous documentary images and exhibition details. "Uneasy Dancer" is an expression Saar has used to define both herself and her artistic practice: "my work moves in a creative spiral with the concepts of passage, crossroads, death and rebirth, along with the underlying elements of race and gender." Through her use of found objects, personal memorabilia and derogatory images that evoke denied or distorted narratives, Saar developed a powerful social critique that challenges racial and sexist stereotypes deeply rooted in American culture." --Publisher's website.
Betye Saar: Still Tickin' by Betye Saar (Artist); Sara Cochran (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6537 .S2 A4 2017
Publication Date: 2017-08-22
"For 60 years, she has created powerful artworks that question traditional roles and representations of African Americans and women in the US, as well as deeply personal works about her family history and spirituality. 'Betye Saar: Still Tickin"' considers the breadth of the artist's career and its key themes. To contextualize Saar's works, this volume includes writings by the artist from the 1970s to the present day as well as a recent interview with Saar in which she discusses her artistic practice and her views on history, including the current debate about police violence in the US." - Publisher
Betye Saar: Black Girl's Window by Christophe Cherix (Editor); Esther Adler (Text by); Betye Saar (Artist)
Call Number: N6537 .S2 A25 2019
Publication Date: 2019-07-23
"Published in anticipation of the exhibition Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl's Window, October 21, 2019-January 4, 2020"--Colophon.
Betye Saar by Jane H. Carpenter (Text by); Betye Saar; David C. Driskell (Foreword by)
Call Number: N6537 .S2 C37 2003
Publication Date: 2003
"Considered a premier assemblage artist, Betye Saar has been creating inspired pieces since the early 1960s... [this book] is a comprehensive look at Saar's works, from the 1960 print Samsara to the powerful mixed-media assemblage Blackbird (2002), and a dynamic career." - Publisher
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar by Jessica Dallow; Barbara C. Matilsky
Call Number: N6537 .S2 D28 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 18, 2005, to March 26, 2006.
Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper by Lorna Simpson (By (photographer)); Hilton Als (Text by); Connie Butler (Text by); Franklin Sirmans (Text by); Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Text by)
Call Number: N6537 .S5554 A4 2013
Publication Date: 2013
"Published on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Aspen Art Museum, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights four recent bodies of work on paper that explore the complex relationship between the photographic archive and processes of self-fashioning... As in Simpson’s earlier works, these new drawings and collages take the African American woman as a point of departure, continuing her longstanding examination of the ways that gender and culture shape the experience of life in our contemporary multiracial society." - Publisher
Lorna Simpson by Joan Simon; Elvan Zabunyan (Contribution by); Naomi Beckwith (Contribution by); Marta Gili (Contribution by); Thomas Lax (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6537 .S5554 A4 2013
Publication Date: 2013-06-06
"This comprehensive catalogue of Lorna Simpson's critically-acclaimed 30-year body of work highlights her photo-text pieces as well as film and video installations to reveal how the artist explores identity, memory, gender, history, fantasy, and reality"-- Provided by publisher.
Henry Taylor : The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of my Momma was Stolen by H. Als
Call Number: N6537 .T394 A4 2018
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
"This definitive survey of over 200 of the painter's portraits and street scenes forms a personal and political portrait of society today. For three decades the iconic artist has worked his way through New York, Los Angeles, Europe, and Africa, documenting what he sees. In his circle are artists, musicians, writers, performers, as well as friends from his ten years as a psychiatric technician. It is the artist's empathetic eye that allows him to imagine his figures with authenticity and grace--not better than they are, or more glamorous--but part of a big, complicated world. Flat, brushy flows of color cast figures that often float in surreal landscapes abstracted from the barbeque in the park, or neighboring street." -- Publisher's Website
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal by Kellie Jones (Interviewer); Sara Krajewski (Text by); Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Text by); Bobby Martin (Designed by); Hank Willis Thomas (By (photographer)); Julia Dolan (Text by)
Call Number: N6537 .T4749 A4 2018
ISBN: 9781597114486
Publication Date: 2018-11-15
"Copublished by Aperture and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, to accompany Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal, an exhibition organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Julia Dolan and Sara Krajewski, on view October 2019-January 2020."
Charles White by Andrea D. Barnwell; Charles White
Call Number: N6537 .W43 B37 2002
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
"Charles White (1918-1979) intentionally and unapologetically dedicated his life and work to conveying the concerns, sentiments, and beauty of African Americans, always realistically portraying his subjects with the dignity they so rightly deserved but were so often denied. Through universal themes he interpreted and presented the humanitarian and social issues of his time by examining the heroism, struggles, hopes, histories, and triumphs of Black people. Barnwell discusses White's regard as an artist and chronicles his career as he pursued artistic excellence, personal integrity, economic freedom, and racial equality." - Book jacket
Kara Walker: Bureau of Refugees by Kara Walker
Call Number: N6537 .W239 A4 2008
Publication Date: 2008
"This book features the works from the new series "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - Records, 'Miscellaneous Papers' National Archives M809 Roll 23," named after the historical record that documents, among other things, atrocities against freed Blacks during Reconstruction. These small, economically rendered cutouts reflect on the sad, repetitive nature of racist atrocities, as well as art's tenuous relationship with the real world of political injustice. Also included are paintings with collaged elements and Kara Walker's signature silhouettes, and a multipart work consisting solely of handwritten texts in which the artist meditates on the "perpetrator" as well as willing and unwilling victims of circumstances." - Book Jacket
Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati by Kara Walker (Artist); Hilton Als (Text by); James Hannaham (Text by); Christopher Stackhouse (Text by); Kevin Young (Text by)
Call Number: N6537 .W239 K37 2013
Publication Date: 2013
"This publication documents Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, a major series of graphite drawings and hand-printed texts on paper that grew out of Walker's attempts to understand how interpersonal and geopolitical powers are asserted through the lives of individuals. In scenes that range from the grotesque to the humorous to the tragic, these works vividly and powerfully explore the themes of transition and migration that run through the history of the African-American experience. The accompanying essays take us through Walker's saga of American experience--the dual streams of renewal and destruction that trace parallel lines through the last century's rapid urbanization, and the complementary emergence of a 'New Negro' identity." - Publisher
Kara Walker: Figa by Kara Walker (Artist); Dakis Joannou (Contribution by); Karen Marta (Editor)
Call Number: N6537 .W239 K375 2018
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
"Kara Walker’s Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the Deste Foundation’s Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017. Once a part of Walker’s colossal 2014 installation A Subtlety at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, Figa is made up of the hand piece from the anamorphic Sphinx that gestures a “fig sign”, at once both a symbol of fertility and a “fuck you”. In making a return to the site of the Sugar Factory work and the work’s progeny in Hydra, this book offers critical insight on A Subtlety and Figa. Through extensive photographic documentation of the installation of the hand sculpture in Hydra by Ari Marcopoulos and seven fables written by Walker illustrating the power of folklore, mythology and Black identity across the history of the United States, Figa in book form captures a blockbuster exhibition in two parts." - Publisher
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes by Glenn Ligon; Stephen Andrews (Contribution by); Wayne Baerwaldt (Introduction by); Thelma Golden (Introduction by); Huey Copeland; Power Plant (Art gallery) Staff (Contribution by); Wayne Koestenbaum (Text by)
Call Number: N6537.L535 A4 2005
Publication Date: 2009-07-31
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Power Plant, Toronto, Ont. and five other museums between June 25, 2005 and Dec. 17, 2007.
Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can't I Alter by Claire Gilman; Kenneth Montague; M. NourbeSe Philip
Call Number: N6549 .S26 A24 2020
Publication Date: 2020-07-15
In Can’t I Alter, Santiago creates a multi-faceted narrative in an immersive, drawing-filled installation that explores the theme of ancestry and the necessity of preserving the past while acknowledging the fallacies implicit in historical recollection.
Lubaina Himid by Emma Ridgeway (Text by); Zoe Whitely (Text by); Lubaina Himid (Artist, Text by); Lisa Panting (Editor); Malin Stahl (Editor); Helen Legg (Text by); Courtney Martin (Text by)
Call Number: N6797 .H564 A4 2018
Publication Date: 2019-06-18
"Born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar (now Tanzania), Himid makes colorful, decorative paintings, as well as sculptures and ceramics, generally themed around African experience and the global history of the African diaspora, and often referencing the aesthetics of African textiles." - Publisher
Doublethink by Stuart Hall (Preface by); Eddie Chambers (Essays by); Virginia Nimarkoh (Essays by); Richard Hylton (Editor)
Call Number: N6797 .R562 R64 2003
Publication Date: 2003
"Employing a wide range of art forms in which self-portraiture and the body are often conduits for wider social and political narratives, Rodney’s art refuses easy categorisation and can be as humorous as it is poignant... From the debunking of mythologies pertaining to ‘angry’ ‘Black Art’, and questioning the relationships between art and identity politics, to examining notions of body art and representations of pain, both writers offer provocative texts on arguably one of the most innovative and important British artists’ of his generation." - Publisher
Cercle d'art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise = Congolese Plantation Workers Art League by Eva Barois de Caevel (Editor); Els Roelandt (Editor)
Call Number: N7399 .C63 C47 2017
ISBN: 9783956793103
Publication Date: 2017-07-17
Catalog of the first exhibition of CATPC held at SculpturCenter, New York, January 28-March 27, 2017.
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas by Danny Glover (Foreword by); Sam Durant (Editor); Amiri Baraka (Contribution by); Kathleen Cleaver (Contribution by); Bobby Seale (Preface by)
Call Number: NC975.5 .D68 B49 2007
Publication Date: 2007-02-06
"The first book to show the provocative posters and groundbreaking graphics of the Black Panther Party... The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message, and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s minister of culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images." - Publisher
Kerry James Marshall by Kathleen S. Bartels and Jeff Wall (curators)
Call Number: ND237 .M24623 A4 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, May 8, 2010-Jan. 3, 2011.
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry by Ian Alteveer; Helen Molesworth; Dieter Roelstraete; Abigail Winograd
Call Number: ND237 .M24623 A4 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition...organized by and held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (April 23-September 25, 2016); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 25, 2016-January 29, 2017); and The Museum of Contemporay Art, Los Angeles (March 12-July 2, 2017)
Kerry James Marshall by Laurence Rassel; Greg Tate; Charles Gaines
Call Number: ND237 .M24623 A4 2017
Publication Date: 2017
"Conversant with a wide typology of styles, subjects, and techniques, from abstraction to realism and comics, Marshall synthesizes different traditions and genres in his work while seeking to counter stereotypical depictions of Black people in society. This is the most comprehensive overview available of his remarkable career." - Publisher
Chris Ofili by Judith Nesbitt (Editor); Okwui Enwezor (Contribution by); Ekow Eshun (Contribution by); Attillah Springer (Contribution by)
Call Number: ND497 .O345 C47 2010
Publication Date: 2010
"Ofili's best-known works are complex and highly decorative canvases, built up from layers of paint combined with other materials including sequins, glitter, map pins and images cut from magazines. Their subject matter often refers to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African American and Afro-Caribbean experience, making reference to sources as diverse as Zimbabwean cave paintings, blaxploitation movies, comic books, funk and hip-hop album covers, pornography and the Bible... This book will illustrate works from throughout Ofili's career, including new works made especially for this exhibition." - Tate
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Call Number: NX512.3 .A35 B78 2021
Publication Date: 2021
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in Black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms... Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls “mad methodology.” Ultimately, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness." - Publisher
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture by Richard Powell
Call Number: NX652 .A37 P69 2008
Publication Date: 2009-02-15
"Examining painting, photographs, and other representations of Black people over the past two centuries, Cutting a Figure argues that these images should be viewed as a category of portraiture distinct from depictions of people with other racial and ethnic backgrounds. The difference, Richard J. Powell contends, stems directly from the Black subject's power to subvert dominant racist conventions by evincing such traits as self-composure, self-adornment, and self-imagining." "Powell supports his argument by skillfully parsing these displays of individuality, social performance, and increased visibility, which in the nineteenth century were sometimes described as "cutting a figure." Combining previously unpublished images with scrupulous archival research, Cutting a Figure illuminates the ideological nature of the genre and the centrality of race and cultural identity in understanding modern and contemporary portraiture." - Book jacket
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson
Call Number: PN6725 .J285 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-30
"Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers a look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the men and women who created seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for articles. The volume covers the mid-1880s, the early years of the self-proclaimed Black press, to 1968, when African American cartoon artists were accepted in the so-called mainstream. " - Publisher
Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde; Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3562 .O75 S5 2007
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
'In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde’s philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.
These landmark writings are, in Lorde’s own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”' -- Publisher's Website
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Call Number: PS3568 .E365 M84 1996
Publication Date: 1996-06-11
"Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on out society." - back cover
Concrete Kids by Amyra León; Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3612 .E5594 A6 2020
Publication Date: 2020
"The author takes readers on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem. Leon explores love and loss, melody and bloodshed as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. She invites readers to dream with abandon-- because it is a privilege to dream at all." - Adapted from front flap.
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry by Valerie Mason-John (editor); Kevan Anthony Cameron (editor)
Call Number: PS8283 .B55 G743 2013
Publication Date: 2013
"The Great Black North is a contemporary remix of the story of Black Canada. Told through the intertwining tapestry of poetic forms found on the page and stage, The Great Black North presents some missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that help fit together a poetic picture of the Black Canadian experience" - Publisher
Burning Sugar: Poems by Cicely Belle Blain
Call Number: PS8603 .I299 B87 2020
Publication Date: 2020
"In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to illuminate their activist work: exposing racism, especially anti-Blackness, and helping people see the connections between history and systemic oppression that show up in every human interaction, space, and community. Their poems demonstrate how the world is both beautiful and cruel, a truth that inspires overwhelming anger and awe—all of which spills out onto the page to tell the story of a challenging, complex, nuanced, and joyful life. " - Publisher
I've Been Meaning to Tell You : A Letter to my Daughter by David Chariandy
Call Number: PS8605 .H3685 Z46 2018
Publication Date: 2018
"When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future."-- from publisher.
How She Read : Poems by Chantal Gibson
Call Number: PS8613 .I2945 H69 2019
Publication Date: 2019-06-21
"How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination.
Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Chantal Gibson’s sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps." -- Publisher's Website
Quilt of Hope : Vancouver Artists for Black Liberation by Nanyamka (Nya) Lewis (curator); Nic Wayara (editor); Cicely Belle Blain (foreword by)
Call Number: This artists' book is currently on order/in process
Publication Date: 2021
Publication for the exhibition currently at Massy Books, Quilt of Hope includes works exploring the "role of artists in dismantling anti-Black racism". The contributors explore the role of artist as activist and changemaker. They point out how Black history has been omitted from Vancouver history, and Black artists are still underrepresented in the Vancouver art landscape.
Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography by Shawn Michelle Smith
Call Number: TR183 .S588 2020
Publication Date: 2020
"In PHOTOGRAPHIC RETURNS Shawn Smith sets out to examine works of contemporary art, only to find that many of the works refer back to the past, to photography's many intersections with the history of racial justice in the U.S. Smith focuses on flashpoints in that history -- spanning from the abolitionist movement, to the Civil War, lynching, and mass incarceration-- to mark the roles that photography has played in documenting the exigencies of Black life, and as a tool for resisting those racial regimes. For each of these moments, Smith shows how contemporary photographers utilize their medium as a way to recall, revise, or amplify the relationship between racial politics in the past and in the present." - Publisher
Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project by Carrie Mae Weems; Deborah Willis (Commentaries by); Jeanne Zeidler (Commentaries by); Constance E. Glenn (Contribution by); Frances B. Johnston
Call Number: TR647 .W424 A4 2000
Publication Date: 2001
"The photographs... are installation images and banners from 'Carrie Mae Weems : The Hampton Project, 2000,' a series of digital photographs printed on muslin and canvas in variable dimensions, as installed at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, March 4-October 22, 2000." - Page 4
Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series by Carrie Weems (By (photographer)); Sarah Lewis (Text by); Adrienne Edwards (Text by)
Call Number: TR655 .W44 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-26
'Kitchen Table Series' is the first publication dedicated solely to this early and important body of work by the American artist Carrie Mae Weems. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up the artwork tell a story of one womans life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships--with lovers, children, friends--and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness, and solitude. 'Kitchen Table Series' seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artists words “unrequited love."" -- Publisher's website
Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Safiya Umoja Noble’s research on algorithms and bias show how online search results are far from neutral. While machines and algorithms are thought to be neutral, the reality is that the people creating algorithms are full of biases. Noble explores internet searching and how racism is embedded in the results impacting what we see and believe.
Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt
Call Number: TR183 .C363 2017
Publication Date: 2017
"Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She hears in these photos-which range from late nineteenth-century ethnographic photographs of rural African women and photographs taken in an early twentieth-century Cape Town prison to postwar passport photographs in Birmingham, England and 1960s mug shots of the Freedom Riders - a quiet intensity and quotidian practices of refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the anticipation and performance of a future that has yet to happen. Engaging with discourses of fugitivity, black futurity, and black feminist theory, Campt takes these tools of colonialism and repurposes them, hearing and sharing their moments of refusal, rupture, and imagination." - Publisher
Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful by Jonathan Frederick Walz (Editor); Seth Feman (Editor); Tiffany Barber (Contribution by); Rebecca Bush (Contribution by); Aruna D'Souza (Contribution by); Jacqueline Francis (Contribution by); Kimberli Gant (Contribution by); Ross Gay (Contribution by); Grey Gundaker (Contribution by); Michael D. Harris (Contribution by); Melanee Harvey (Contribution by); Melissa Ho (Contribution by); Amber Kerr (Contribution by); Gwen Manthey (Contribution by); Amy M. Mooney (Contribution by); Sydney Nikolaus (Contribution by); James Nisbet (Contribution by); Nell Painter (Contribution by); Rebecca VanDiver (Contribution by)
Call Number: ND237 .T5517 A4 2021
Publication Date: 2021
"In a collaboration between curators at The Columbus Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, works toward a primary objective: to introduce the Thomas-related materials housed at The Columbus Museum to a broader public, and to demonstrate how those materials reshape the narratives surrounding the artist. The wealth of material in The Columbus Museum's collection-from student work of the 1920s and marionettes from the 1930s, to home furnishings, ephemera, and little-known works on paper-offers a robust, but until now untold, account of Thomas's artistic journey. Taking cues from Thomas's wide-ranging interests and her broad network of collaborators and supporters, our museums also sought a scholarly approach that resonated with the artist's own disregard for silos, borders, and other arbitrary limitations." - Publisher
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire by Thorsten Sadowsky
Call Number: N6797 .S53 A4 2021
Publication Date: 2021
"Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examines complex themes like hybrid identities, colonialism and power structures with unique irony. This richly illustrated catalogue focuses on three decades of his fascinating artistic oeuvre. Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and history whose effects influence our present-day lives. The volume takes up the traces of colonialism and its consequences for role models, worldviews and body images in the works of Shonibare." - Publisher
Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Call Number: PN6725 .W48 2016
ISBN: 9780295994963
Publication Date: 2015
"As the first detailed investigation of Black women's participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence examines the representation, production, and transnational circulation of women of African descent in the sequential art world." - Back cover
African Artists: From 1882 to Now by Phaidon Editors; Joseph L. Underwood; Chika Okeke-Agulu
Call Number: N7380 .A376 2021
Publication Date: 2021
"Modern and Contemporary African art is at the forefront of the current curatorial and collector movement in today’s art scene. This groundbreaking new book, created in collaboration with a prestigious global advisory board, represents the most substantial appraisal of contemporary artists born or based in Africa available. Features the work of more than 300 artists." - Pubisher

American Experience : Freedom Riders by Stanley Nelson (written, produced and directed by)
Call Number: E185.61 .F74 2011
Publication Date: 2011
This two-hour PBS documentary examines the Freedom Riders, a group of more than 400 Black and white Americans who, for six months in 1961, traveled together to the American south via bus and train, challenging the segregated interstate travel system. These nonviolent activists endured racist attacks, mob violence, and police brutality as they rode together.
Hogan's Alley by Andrea Fatona and Cornelia Wyngaarden
Call Number: FC3850 .B6 H64 2017 DVD
Publication Date: 1993
This film documents the history of Hogan's Alley and Vancouver's Black community between 1930 and the late 1960s. It explores the lives of three Black women: Thelma Gibson-Towns, an African-Caribbean dance teacher, Pearl Brown, a well known local jazz singer, and Leah Curtis, a lesbian in her mid-forties.
Pioneers of African-American Cinema
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 P56 2016
Publication Date: 2016
This 5-disc DVD set includes films from the 1920's-40s which starred and were funded, written, produced, edited, and distributed by African Americans. These films were produced outside the Hollywood establishment, and demonstrated unique visual and narrative styles which were aimed at Black audiences.
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema: DVD Anthology, 1971-2006
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 L24 2015
Publication Date: 2015
"The group of Black filmmakers that have come to be known as the L.A. Rebellion created a watershed body of work that strives to perform the revolutionary act of humanizing Black people on screen. The filmmakers in this group met as students in film school at the University of California, Los Angeles, between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s." - Booklet.
I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck (director); James Baldwin (writer)
Call Number: E185.61 .I366 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee
Call Number: PN1997.2 .D63 2001
Publication Date: 2001
During the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, racial tensions are quickly inflamed and violence ensues.
Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
Call Number: PN1997 .K55547 2007
Publication Date: 2007
A realistic portrait of a black, urban Los Angeles community. Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, struggles to provide for his family, love his wife, and maintain responsibility to his community. Though his everyday life is filled with setbacks--he struggles with frustration, depression, and the temptation of friends trying to get him involved in their shady dealings--he perseveres in the hope of better life for himself and his family.
Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
Call Number: PN1997 .D3844 1999
Publication Date: 1999
Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child by Tamra Davis (filmmaker)
Call Number: N6537 .B233 J43 2010
Publication Date: 2010
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.
Black Girl by Ousmane Sembène
Call Number: PN1995.9 .F67 B5335 2017 Blu-ray
Publication Date: 2017
A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.

Daniel G. Hill on Black Refugees in Ontario, 1979 (streaming audio 9 min.)
Activist Daniel Hill (1923-2003) was the first director of the Ontario Human Right Commission. He founded the Ontario Black History Society and published The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada.

Listen to Daniel talk about the community volunteer groups that worked so hard to help black refugees arriving in Ontario on the Underground Railway in the mid-19th century, why Ontario was their main destination, the basis of the black community in Canada and the prosperous black settlement of Buxton, near Chatham, Ont.
Trivia: Father to singer songwriter Dan Hill and authors Karen Hill and Lawrence Hill.

O Happy Day. Directed by Charles Lofton, Frameline, 1996. (6 min.)
"O Happy Day” is a 1996 short film by Charles Lofton. Using found footage “O Happy Day” juxtaposes images of Black Panther Party demonstrations with Gay Liberation Movement protests and intertwines them all with sensual homoerotic images of black men. Punctuating the films soundtrack with a 1970 quotation from Black Panther leader Huey Newton, Lofton re-imagines an intertwining of the two movements as an expression of black queer love and power: "There's nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary. Quite on the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary..." If you missed seeing this when it was exhibited at Centre Pompidou, you can find it in the “Black Power Movement 1966-1975” Channel in the streaming database: Academic Video Online/Alexander St Video found in our Databases A-Z.

Ujamii Uhuru Schule : Community Freedom School. Directed by Don Amis, 1974. (9 min.)
Check out the work of the L.A. Rebellion held in the open access database of the UCLA Library Film and Televison Library! Ujamii Uhuru Schule (Swahili for Community Freedom School) is a portrait of an Afrocentric primary school located in South Los Angeles. Filmed in 1974, Don Amis’s 9 min documentary contains beautiful radical imagery and truths of what learning can mean outside of an inherently oppressive Eurocentric/white paradigm.

The Missing Chapter(s): Some History About Black Graphic Design, July 22, 2020 (1 hr 38 min) hosted by Vermon College of Fine Arts

Three micro lectures and a panel discussion: the Missing Chapter(s): Some History About Black Graphic Design with faculty Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton, Silas Munro and alumnx Pierre Bowins.

Pierre Bowins presents on "A Sin of Omission: Immoral Unbalance"
Silas Munro presents on "A Wounded Fire: Queerness in Black Publications From the Harlem Renaissance"
Tasheka Arceneux-Sutton presents on "Black Women in Graphic Design"

An online video of Roxane Gay and Katia D. Ulysse discussing critical Caribbean feminisms.

African Arts

African Arts published by the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA and MIT Press

African Arts presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. This is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published quarterly, since 1967.

Library has in print: Volume 5, No. 1, 1971 to date
Library has full text online: Volume 7 No. 1, 2007 to date

NKA Contemporary African Art

NKA Contemporary African Art published by Duke University Press

Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience and therefore contributes significantly to the intellectual dialogue on world art and the discourse on internationalism and multiculturalism in the arts. Nka mainly includes scholarly articles, reviews (exhibits and books), interviews, and roundtable discussions. Published two times a year since 1994.

Library has in print: No. 22/23, 2008 to present
Library has full text online: 09/01/2002 to present (Full Text Delay: 1 year)

WARE, SYRUS MARCUS. “Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future).” Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 54, no. 2–3, Spring-Fall 2020, pp. 558–561.
Between 11 September and 8 December 2019, Syrus Marcus Ware's multi-channel video work Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future) was on view at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto ... In this piece, written as a companion to the video installation, Ware not only meditates on the precarity of the present but also insists on the necessity for social change through an imagining of the collapse of capitalism and the radical time after with a social restructuring of forms of relations and care.
Cardwell, Erica. “Wildseed: By and for A Fellowship Model Black Creatives.” C Magazine, no. 149, Summer 2021, pp. 50–55.
The article features the Wildseed Black Arts Fellowship and its activities and programs to support African Canadian artists as of July 2021. Also cited are some members of the fellowship like Mila Natasha Mendez, Kara Springer, and Kim Ninkuru, the fellowship's adoption of the values and imperatives of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)--Toronto movement, and the 1980 novel "Wild Seed" by Octavia Butler as the inspiration of the fellowship.
Voon, Claire. “Dina Nur Satti.” American Craft, vol. 81, no. 3, Fall 2021, pp. 19–21.
The article features ceramic artist Dina Nur Satti of Nur Ceramics. Topics covered include Satti's education and career background, how threads from Nubian traditions abound in her clay designs and her development of the Acacia vessels, named for the trees common in African savannas. It also describes how Satti's incense burners best capture the ethos of her practice.

The Blue Road : A Fable of Migration by Wayde Compton (Text by); April dela Noche Milne (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6733 .C66 B58 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Masterfully adapted from a short story by award winning poet and prose writer Wayde Compton, former ECUAD faculty.
Follow Lacuna down The Blue Road. Exiled from her home, a swamp made of ink, Lacuna makes the long journey to a mythical kingdom in hopes of finding her place in this beautifully illustrated world imagined by April dela Noche Milne, ECUAD staff and alumni.
March : Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
Call Number: E840.8 .L43 A3 2013 bk.1
Publication Date: 2013
"This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall." - Publisher
March : Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin
Call Number: E840.8 .L43 A3 2015 bk.2
Publication Date: 2015
"This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book Two continues Congressman John Lewis’s personal account of the Civil Rights Movement, spanning the period when the movement’s nascent student wing becomes a nationally influential force. In this volume, Lewis recounts his participation in the landmark 1961 Freedom Rides, his leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and his fiery address to the nation at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." - Publisher
March : Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: E840.8 .L43 A3 2016 bk.3
Publication Date: 2016
"This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book Three begins with the September 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church (and the subsequent riots) and ends with the 1965 Voting Rights Act being signed into legislature." - Publisher
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
Call Number: HQ1163 .F56 2019
Publication Date: 2019
"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story "Hot Comb" is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In "Virgin Hair" taunts of "tender-headed" sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking." - Publisher
After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor; David Brame (Illustrator); John Jennings (Adapted by)
Call Number: PN6727 .J45 A647 2021
Publication Date: 2021
"The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold art and colors to powerfully tell this tale of identity and destiny." Adapted from the short story "On the road" (2013) by Nnedi Okorafor.
Audre Lorde by Aquino Eloisa
Call Number: Zine 0043 v.5 no.1
Publication Date: 2013
Part of Aquino Eloisa's Life and Times of Butch Dykes series, this small zine is an introduction to Audre Lorde - self-defined poet, teacher, warrior, lesbian, mother. Eloisa's similar works are also available compiled in the book The Life and Times of Butch Dykes : Portraits of Artists, Leaders, and Dreamers who Changed the World.
Gladys Bentley by Aquino Eloisa
Call Number: Zine 0043 v.1 no.3
Publication Date: 2009
Part of Aquino Eloisa's Life and Times of Butch Dykes series, this small zine is an introduction to Gladys Bentley. She was a black lesbian singer in the roaring '20s. The zine talks about her marriage to a woman, her male-presenting style, and how changing politics affected her radical outspokenness as a woman. Eloisa's similar works are also available compiled in the book The Life and Times of Butch Dykes : Portraits of Artists, Leaders, and Dreamers who Changed the World.
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
Call Number: E185.625 .P377 2018
Publication Date: 2018
"In Your Black Friend and Other Strangers, Ben Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability." - Publisher

These databases feature material on Black History

Academic Video Online / Alexander Street Videos This link opens in a new window
- Academic Video Online (AVON) provides access to more than 63,000* (and growing) videos all cross-searchable from a single platform. Includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles.
CBC Curio & News in Review This link opens in a new window
- Thousands of programs including documentaries from CBC television and radio, news reports, archival footage and more. Commercial free.
National Film Board CAMPUS This link opens in a new window
- The NFB CAMPUS service provides a mix of Public Performance Rights for films freely viewable from the NFB site, access to films not available on the public website, and value added services. Individual authenticated users can create their own logins to take advantage of customizable options such as the custom playlists.

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