Readings

Artist Bios

Unit One

Crawford: Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics UnboundDownload
Morrison: The Site of MemoryDownload
Banks: Scratch: Two Turntables and a Storytelling TraditionDownload
Danticat: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at WorkDownload

Unit Two

Philip: Declension of History in the Key of IfDownload
Wheatley: A Hymn to the EveningDownload
Wheatley: On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaDownload
Wheatley: To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His WorksDownload
Jordan: The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in AmericaDownload
Hartman: The Dead BookDownload
Hartman: Venus in Two ActsDownload

Unit Three

Lorde: ZamiDownload
Gossett: billie lives! billie lives!Download
Sanchez: A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical WomenDownload
Jordan: Who Look at Me?Download

Unit Four

Beyoncé: LemonadeDownload
Lemonade SyllabusDownload

Monáe: Dirty Computer

Barnewitz: Does Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer Showcase Queer Afrofuturism? https://comicsverse.com/janelle-monae-dirty-computer/

Ballard: Fenced In + Wood Collages

https://www.lavettbeart.com/lavett-b-fenced-in-series

https://www.lavettbeart.com/copy-of-woodstories

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