Black Diasporic Art History Subject Guide
This subject guide compiles references and resources in the Concordia Library collection and elsewhere that relate to Black diasporic histories and art. It serves as an entry point to introductory topics by and about peoples of African descent in various parts of the world with a focus on Canada and the United States. The guide provides multiple entry points into the topics and is organized in two major streams: Canada and international. It contains references on the topics of art and history broadly as well as the representation of Black subjects in art and on key Black art and archival institutions. This guide also gathers resources and references about Black studies and critical museology to offer greater context on Black diasporic art histories.
References to print publications in the Concordia Library collection will include call numbers.
Most references include hyperlinks to an online source or Concordia Library’s Sofia Discovery Tool.
Concordia students, faculty and staff may access e-books and e-journal articles using their Concordia netname and password.
If a title is not in the Concordia Library collection, the reference will include a hyperlink (Request/Interlibrary Loan) to a library record where the item can be borrowed through our InterLibrary Loan service.
Black art/history (Canada)
Campbell, Mark V. “‘Other/Ed’ Kinds of Blackness: An Afrodiasporic Versioning of Black Canada.” Southern Journal of Canadian Studies 5, no. 1 (November 2012): 46-65. doi:10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.288
Clarke, Neville. Tribute: The Art of African Canadians. Brampton, Ont.: Art Gallery of Peel, 2005. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Crooks, Julie, Dominique Fontaine, and Silvia Forni, eds. Making History: Visual Arts & Blackness in Canada. Vancouver: On Point Press, 2023.
EAHR, and Artexte, comps. “Black Canadian Artists Bibliography.” Artexte, 2015, https://artexte.ca/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/black-canadian-artists-bibliography.pdf
Edmonds, Pamela, and Anthony Joyette. Black Body: Race, Resistance, Response: Buseje Bailey, Michael Chambers, Lucie Chan, Chrystal Clements, Rebecca Fisk, Gomo George. Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 2001. Webster Library - N 6549.5 B53B53 2001
Edmonds, Pamela. “The Politics of Belonging: Positioning Black Identity in Contemporary African-Canadian Art.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 2007.
Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects (1997-2007). Toronto: Wedge curatorial projects, 2007.
Webster Library - TR 680 F63 2007
Fatona, Andrea. “In the Presence of Absence: Invisibility, Black Canadian History and Melinda Mollineaux’s Pinhole Photography.” Canadian Journal of Communication 31, no. 1 (2006): 227-238.
Fatona, Andrea, and Liz Ikiriko. “Speaking Ourselves Into Being.” C Mag. December 15, 2019, https://cmagazine.com/articles/speaking-ourselves-into-being/
Garel, Connor. “Why Have There Been No Great Black Canadian Women Artists?” Canadian Art. January 10, 2019, https://canadianart.ca/essays/why-have-there-been-no-great-black-canadian-women-artists/
Jim, Alice Ming Wai. “Black Women Artists in Canada: A Documentation and Analysis of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin--When and Where We Enter.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 1996.
Joachim, Joana. “Black Gold: A Black Feminist Art History of 1920s Montréal.” Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 3 (2021): 266–91. doi:10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0017.
Joachim, Joana. Blackity. Artexte, 2021. Website exhibition published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized and presented at Artexte, September 23, 2021-June 23, 2022, https://www.artexte.art/en/blackity/
Johnson, Adrienne. Through African Canadian Eyes: Landscape Painting by Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century African Canadians. Masters thesis, Concordia University, 2005.
Johnson, Michele A., and Aladejebi Funké, eds. Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Webster Library - FC 106 B6 U57 2022
Lee, Yaniya. “How Canada Forgot Its Black Artists.” FADER, August 31, 2016, https://www.thefader.com/2016/08/31/black-artists-in-canada/
Lee, Yaniya. “The Women Running the Show.” Canadian Art, October 2, 2017, https://canadianart.ca/features/women-running-show/
Nelson, Charmaine, ed. Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory and Resistance. Concord: Captus Press, 2019. Webster Library - N 6549.3 T69 2019
Parris, Amanda. “An Oral History of the Black Film and Video Network” CBC Arts, May 8, 2020, https://www.cbc.ca/arts/an-oral-history-of-the-black-film-and-video-network-1.5559797/
Petty, Sheila. Racing the Cultural Interface: African Diasporic Identities in the Digital Age: With Works by John Akomfrah, Wayne Dunkley, Philip Mallory Jones, Carmin Karasic, Roshini Kempadoo & Camille Turner. Halifax, N.S.: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2004. Webster Library - NX 629 R32 2004
RACAR. Salt. For the Preservation of Black Diasporic Visual Histories edited by Pamela Edmonds and Joana Joachim 47, no. 2 (Fall 2022). Webster Library - N 1 R18+ (and e-journal)
Thompson, Cheryl. “Black Canada and Why The Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform”. Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum 14, no. 2 (2019): 76–106, https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ateliers/2019-v14-n2-ateliers05462/1071133ar.pdf
Vernon, Karina. The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology. Baltimore: Project Muse, 2020. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75270/ (e-book)
Black art/history (international)
Adusei-Poku, Nana. “Post-Post-Black?” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art no. 38–39 (November 2016): 80–89, DOI.org/10.1215/10757163-3641711/
Barson, Tanya, Peter Gorschlüter, and Petrine Archer Straw. Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic. Liverpool: Tate Liverpool, 2010.
Webster Library - N 7380.5 A38 2010
Beauchamp-Byrd, Mora J, and Franklin Sirmans, eds. Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996. New York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, 1997. Webster Library - N 6768 T72 1997
Bernier, Celeste-Marie. Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
Webster Library - N 6538 N5 B475 2018
Bishop, Jacqueline. Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2023. Request/Interlibrary loan
Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
Webster Library - N 8232 B57 1990
Campt, Tina M. A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/lib/concordia-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6724962 (e-book)
Chambers, Eddie, ed. The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.4324/9781351045193 (e-book)
Chambers, Eddie. Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present. International Library of Visual Culture. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 2014. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Collins, Lisa Gail. “The Art of Transformation Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements.” In New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement edited by Lisa Gail Collins, and Margo Natalie Crawford, 273-296. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Cramer, Lauren McLeod. “A Very Black Project: A Method for Digital Visual Culture.” In Writing About Screen Media edited by Lisa Patti, 121-125. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/books/edit/10.4324/9780815393924/writing-screen-media-lisa-patti (e-book)
Crooks, Julie, ed. Fragments of Epic Memory. New York: Delmonico, 2022.
Webster Library - N 6591 F73 2021
Dent, Gina, ed. Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992. Vanier Library - E 185.86 B532 1992
Doy, Gen. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000.
Webster Library - N 6768 D69 2000
RACAR. Salt. For the Preservation of Black Diasporic Visual Histories edited by Pamela Edmonds and Joana Joachim 47, no. 2 (Fall 2022). Webster Library - N 1 R18+ (and e-journal)
English, Darby. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
Webster Library - N 6538 N5 E54 2007
Eshun, Ekow. In the Black Fantastic: The Art of Afrofuturism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.
Webster Library - NX 164 B55 E84 2022
Fleetwood, Nicole R. Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Webster Library - CB 235 G55 1993
Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of Relation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Webster Library - F 2081.8 G5513 1997
Hall, Stuart. Essential Essays, edited by David Morley. Vol. 2, Identity and Diaspora. Stuart Hall, Selected Writings. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Hamilton, Elizabeth Carmel. Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art The Black Female Fantastic. Routledge Research in Art and Race. New York: Routledge, 2023. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/lib/concordia-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7020765# (e-book)
Holloway, Camara Dia. “Critical Race Art History.” Art Journal 75, no. 1 (2016): 89-92. doi:10.1080/00043249.2016.1171548
Jafa, Arthur. “The Black Visual Intonation.” In The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, edited by Robert G. O’Meally, 264-68. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Vanier Library - ML 3508 J38 1998
Jenkins, Earnestine. Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights. Memphis: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2021.
Webster Library - N 6538 N5 J46 2021
Jones, Amelia. “Ethnic Envy and Other Aggressions in the Contemporary “Global” Art Complex”. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art no. 48 (May 2021): 96–110. doi:10.1215/10757163-8971328
Kerman, Monique. Contemporary British Artists of African Descent and the Unburdening of a Generation. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65199-6. (e-book)
Luckett, Sharrell D., ed. African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684481569. (e-book)
Mercer, Kobena. “Black Art and the Burden of Representation.” Third Text 4 no. 10 (March 1990): 61–78. doi:10.1080/09528829008576253
Mercer, Kobena. Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Webster Library - N 8232 M48 2016
Pedroso, Adriano, and Tomás Toledo, eds. Afro-Atlantic Histories. New York, NY: DelMonico Books, 2021. Webster Library - N 8217 B535 A37 2021
Piper, Adrian. “The Triple Negation of Colored Women Artists,” In The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, edited by Amelia Jones, 239-248. London: Routledge, 2003.
Webster Library - HQ 1121 F445 2003
Bolin, Paul Erik, and Ami Kantawal, eds. Revitalizing History: Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2017.
Webster Library - N 105 R48 2017
Whitley Zoé, and Marion Perkins. The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and About Black American Artists, 1960-1980. Edited by Mark Godfrey and Allie Biswas. New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2021.
Webster Library - N 6538 B53 S68 2021
Wimberly, Dexter, et al. Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox. Petaluma, California: Cameron Company, 2019. Webster Library - N 6591 C64 2019
Wynter, Sylvia. "Rethinking ‘Aesthetics’: Notes Towards a Deciphering Practice." In Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema, edited by Mbye B. Cham, 237-279. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 1992.
Webster Library - PN 1993.5 C365 E95 1992
Library of Congress Subject search: Art History AND Black*
Representation of Black subjects (Canada)
Garel, Connor. “Why Have There Been No Great Black Canadian Women Artists?” Canadian Art. January 10, 2019, https://canadianart.ca/essays/why-have-there-been-no-great-black-canadian-women-artists/
Jim, Alice Ming Wai. “An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition ‘Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter’.” RACAR: Revue D'art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 23, no. 1/2 (1996): 71-83. doi.org/10.7202/1073294ar
Joachim, Joana. “Black Gold: A Black Feminist Art History of 1920s Montréal.” Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 3 (2021): 266–91. doi:10.3138/cjh.56-3-2021-0017.
Lee, Yaniya. “How Canada Forgot Its Black Artists.” FADER, August 31, 2016, https://www.thefader.com/2016/08/31/black-artists-in-canada/
Lee, Yaniya. “The Women Running the Show.” Canadian Art, October 2, 2017, https://canadianart.ca/features/women-running-show/
Morton, Erin, ed. Unsettling Canadian Art History. Mcgill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Webster Library - N 72 S6 U57 2022
Nelson, Charmaine. Through An-Other’s Eyes : White Canadian Artists – Black Female Subjects / Le regard de l’autre: artistes blancs, sujets féminins noirs. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1998. Webster Library - N 8232 N45 1988
Nelson, Charmaine, ed. Towards an African Canadian Art History: Art, Memory, and Resistance. Concord, ON: Captus Press, 2019. Webster Library - N 6549.3 T69 2019
Nelson, Charmaine. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art. Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora, 2. New York: Routledge, 2010. https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.4324/9780203851241 (e-book)
Nelson, Charmaine. Ebony Roots, Northern Soil: Perspectives on Blackness in Canada. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Webster Library - FC 106 B5 E26 2010
Nelson, Charmaine. The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Webster Library - NB 1936 N45 2007
Nelson, Charmaine. Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315087917 (e-book)
Thompson, Cheryl. “Black Canada and Why The Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform”. Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum 14, no. 2 (2019): 76–106, https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ateliers/2019-v14-n2-ateliers05462/1071133ar.pdf
Library of Congress Subject Heading search: Black people in art AND Canad*
Representation of Black subjects (International)
Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
Webster Library - N 8232 B57 1990
Chambers, Eddie, ed. The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.4324/9781351045193 (e-book)
Crooks, Julie, and Andrea Andersson, eds. Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2018. Webster Library - N 6537 T45 A4 2018
Enwezor, Okwui. “Reframing the Black Subject Ideology and Fantasy in Contemporary South African Representation.” Third Text 11, no. 40 (September 1997): 21–40. doi.org/10.1080/09528829708576684
Golden, Thelma. Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994.
Webster Library - NX 652 A37 G65 1994
hooks, bell. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” In Black Looks: Race and Representation, by bell hooks, 115-131. New York: Routledge, 2015.
https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.4324/9781315743226 (e-book)
Jones, Amelia. “Ethnic Envy and Other Aggressions in the Contemporary “Global” Art Complex”. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art no. 48 (May 2021): 96–110. https://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8971328
Mercer, Kobena. “Black Art and the Burden of Representation.” Third Text 4 no. 10 (March 1990): 61–78. doi:10.1080/09528829008576253
Nelson, Charmaine. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art. Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora, 2. New York: Routledge, 2010. https://doi-org.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/10.4324/9780203851241 (e-book)
Panting, Lisa, and Ståhl Malin, eds. Lubaina Himid. London: Koenig Books, 2018. Webster Library - N 6797 H5635 A4 2018.
Thompson, Barbara, and Ifi Amadiume. Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. - Webster Library - N 8232 B55 2008
Wainaina, Binyavanga. “How to Write About Africa.” Granta 2005. https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/
Library of Congress Subject Heading search: Black people in art
Related resources at Concordia
“Black Studies Subject Guide.” Concordia University Library.
https://www.concordia.ca/library/guides/black-studies.html
“Black History in Special Collections.” Concordia University Library.
https://www.concordia.ca/library/guides/black-studies/concordia-archives/concordia-archives-speccoll.html
Black art institutions, associations and archives (Canada)
Afromusée. https://www.afromusee.org/
“[...] the Afromusée will be a living museum that is accessible, mobile and multi-faceted. A welcoming space, it will feature cultural and intercultural activities, research and reference opportunities; and an online platform that researches, informs, shares discoveries, and gives a voice to young afro descendants as well as witnesses to all Africaness in all its forms.”
The Black Archives. https://www.theblackarchives.nl/home.html
“The Black Archives is a unique historical archive where one can go for inspiring conversations, substantive activities and books from black and other perspectives that are often underexposed elsewhere.”
Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND). https://www.bandgallery.com/
“The Black Archives is a unique historical archive for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. The Black Archives documents the history of black emancipation movements and individuals in the Netherlands. The Black Archives is managed by the New Urban Collective.”
The Black Arts Centre (BLAC). https://www.theblackartscentre.ca/about
“BLAC is a space based in Surrey, BC that is dedicated to supporting multidisciplinary art created by Black youth.”
Centre culturel afro canadien de Montréal / Afro-Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (CCAM). https://ccamontreal.ca/en/
“The Afro-Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal (CCAM) is an inclusive cultural space dedicated to artistic innovation, the preservation, and the promotion of the heritage of Black communities in all its forms.”
Fonds F 2076 - Alvin D. McCurdy fonds, Archives of Ontario. https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/alvin-d-mccurdy-fonds;rad?sf_culture=en
“Fonds consists of the records created and collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Fonds includes the personal correspondence and a genealogy of the McCurdy family…”
Nia Centre for the Arts. https://niacentre.org/
“We are a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization that supports, showcases and promotes an appreciation of arts from across the African Diaspora.”
Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP). https://www.nomadicarchivistsproject.com/about
The Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP) is an initiative that partners with organizations, institutions, and individuals to establish, preserve, and enhance collections that explore the global Black experience.
The State of Blackness. https://thestateofblackness.format.com/
“The State of Blackness: From Production to Presentation website serves as an archive of the activities of a conference of the same name that took place in 2014.”
Vernon, Karina. The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology. Baltimore: Project Muse, 2020.
https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1155074829
Wedge Curatorial Projects. https://www.wedgecuratorialprojects.org/
“We are a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization working to highlight Black identity and diasporic narratives in contemporary art through exhibitions, lectures, and community programs.”
Black art institutions, associations and archives (International)
Africa Museum. Belgium. https://www.africamuseum.be/en
“The AfricaMuseum is a centre for knowledge and resources on Africa, in particular Central Africa, in an historical, contemporary, and global context. The museum exhibits unique collections. It is a place of memory on the colonial past and strives to be a dynamic platform for exchanges and dialogues between cultures and generations.”
Afrika Museum. Netherlands. https://www.afrikamuseum.nl/en
“The Afrika Museum is a museum about people. Located in the wooded hills of Berg en Dal near Nijmegen it has both indoor and outdoor exhibits, with regularly changing temporary exhibitions and permanent displays of traditional African objects and its large collection of contemporary African art. Objects that reflect the customs and traditions of different African peoples. They tell stories about universal human themes like mourning, celebration, ornamentation, prayer, conflict; stories that inspire visitors to find out more about the huge cultural diversity to be found in the world.”
Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). https://www.acasaonline.org/
“The organization exists to facilitate communication among scholars, teachers, students, artists, museum specialists, collectors, and all others interested in the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. Its goals are to promote greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and to encourage contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.”
Black Cultural Archives. United Kingdom. https://blackculturalarchives.org/
“Our mission is to collect, preserve and celebrate the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK and to inspire and give strength to individuals, communities, and society.”
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos). Nigeria. https://ccalagos.org/
“The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos) is an independent non-profit making visual art organization founded in December 2007 by Bisi Silva (1962-2019) to provide a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture.”
Louisiana Digital Library (LDL). United States. https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/
“The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in Louisiana and across the globe.”
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. United States. https://nmaahc.si.edu/
“The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture.”
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. United States. https://www.si.edu/museums/african-art-museum
“The National Museum of African Art is the only national museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, exhibition, conservation, and study of the arts of Africa.”
National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Kenya. https://museums.or.ke/
“National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a state corporation established by an Act of Parliament, the Museum and Heritage Act 2006. NMK is a multi-disciplinary institution whose role is to collect, preserve, study, document and present Kenya’s past and present cultural and natural heritage. This is for the purposes of enhancing knowledge, appreciation, respect and sustainable utilization of these resources for the benefit of Kenya and the world, for now and posterity. NMK’s mutual concern for the welfare of mankind and conservation of the biological diversity of East African region and that of the entire planet demands success in such efforts.”
Pretoria Art Museum. South Africa. https://pretoriaartmuseum.wordpress.com/
“OUR AIM: Collecting, documenting and conserving outstanding examples of mainly South African art; researching and compiling exhibitions from the permanent collection; hosting major national and international travelling exhibitions, supplemented by educational activities. The Information Centre is an invaluable source of information for people interested in, or researching the visual arts. Educators, students, learners and members of the public may use the vast collection of art reference books. Newspaper clippings on Southern African artists and art make the Pretoria Art Museum’s Information Centre unique.”
Rwanda Art Museum. Rwanda. https://www.visitrwanda.com/interests/rwanda-art-museum/
“Formerly the Presidential Palace Museum, this new museum displays contemporary artworks from Rwanda as well as abroad. The museum seeks to provide an insight into the originality of Rwandan creativity. Exploring the development of art from olden times to the modern day, it considers how traditional and modern imaginations can blend and fuse.”
Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture. United States. https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
“The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.”
Studio Museum in Harlem. United States. https://store.studiomuseum.org/pages/about
The Studio Museum in Harlem, founded to champion, empower, and celebrate artists of African descent, has continued steadfastly in its mission for over fifty years. One of the Museum’s original initiatives, the Artist-in-Residence program has supported over one hundred artists early in their careers. The permanent collection, informally begun by artists who saw the critical need for institutional stewardship of their work, is now recognized as one of the most important public collections of works by Black artists.
Wits Art Museum (WAM), University of Witwatersrand. South Africa. https://www.wits.ac.za/wam/
“The museum's collection started in the 1950s and has since grown substantially. In 1972 the Gertrude Posel Gallery was established on the ground floor of Senate House on East Campus. It was joined in 1992 by the Studio Gallery which formed the "lower gallery" reserved for the display of African art. The galleries' collections grew steadily, with the Studio Gallery becoming renowned for having one of the best collections of African beadwork in the world, and by 2002 it was decided that more space was needed. Thus, the Gertrude Posel Gallery and the Studio Galley were closed. The ground floor of University Corner was selected as the site for the new Wits Art Museum, which now houses the collections after it was completed and launched in 2012.”
Source: Wikipedia
National Bardo Museum. Tunisia.
http://www.bardomuseum.tn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=73&lang=en
The national Bardo Museum is a jewel of Tunisian heritage. It is housed in an old Beylic palace dating back to the XIXth Century. It retraces, through its collections, a big part of Tunisia’s history (from Prehistory to the contemporary epoch) and contains the largest collection of mosaics in the world including the famous mosaic representing Virgil, the poet.
Foundations of Black Studies & Critical Museology
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black Interior: Essays. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2004. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Alexander, Michelle, and Cornel West. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Revised ed. New York, NY: New Press, 2012. Webster Library - HV 9950 A437 2012
Bolin, Paul Erik, and Ami Kantawal, eds. Revitalizing History: Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2017. Webster Library - N 105 R48 2017
Combahee River Collective. “The Combahee River Collective Statement.” In Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith, 264. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. https://hdl-handle-net.lib-ezproxy.concordia.ca/2027/heb30514.0001.001 (e-book)
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–99. doi.org/10.2307/1229039.
Fanon, Framtz. Black Skin, White Masks. Get Political. London: Pluto Press, 2008. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/71286732 (e-book)
Forni, Sylvia, Julie Crooks, and Dominique Fontaine. “Activism, Objects and Dialogues Re-Engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum.” In Museum Activism edited by Robert R. Janes, and Richard Sandell, 186-196. London: Routledge, 2019. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1060184662 (e-book)
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Translated by Betsy Wing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Webster Library - CB 235 G55 1993
Hall, Stuart. Essential Essays, edited by David Morley. 2 volumes. Stuart Hall, Selected Writings. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Request/Interlibrary Loan
Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Webster Library - E 443 H37 1997
Hartman, Saidiya V. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Webster Library - E 185.86 H379 2019
Hill Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2009. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/245597448 (e-book)
Maranda, Michael. "Hard Numbers: A Study on Diversity in Canada’s Galleries." Canadian Art. April 5, 2017. https://canadianart.ca/features/art-leadership-diversity
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Blackwood: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Webster Library - FC 106 B6 M39 2017
McKittrick, Katherine. Dear Science and Other Stories. Errantries. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1206357184
(e-book)
Nelson, Charmaine, and Camille A. Nelson. Racism, Eh?: A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada. Concord, Ont.: Captus Press, 2004. Webster Library - FC 104 R358 2004
Rutland, Ted. Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax. Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Webster Library - HT 169 C32 H35 2018
Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/940520601
(e-book)
Thompson, Cheryl. “Black Canada and Why The Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform”. Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum 14, no. 2 (2019): 76–106, https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ateliers/2019-v14-n2-ateliers05462/1071133ar.pdf
Williams, Dorothy W. The Road to Now: A History of Blacks in Montreal. Dossier Québec. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1997. Webster Library - FC 2947.9 B6 W54 1997
Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History. 2nd ed. Carleton Library Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. https://concordiauniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/144083837 (e-book)
Guide prepared by Dr. Joana Joachim, Assistant professor of Black studies in art education, art history and social justice, Concordia University, in collaboration with Concordia University Library.