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Alden, Donna Sue. African Images in the Art Classroom: An Exploration of the Reactions of African-American Students Toward African Art. Ph.D., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2003.

Ater, Renée. Keith Morrison. The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume V. Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, 2005.

Bailey, David A., Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, eds. Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press in association with Institute of International Visual Arts and African and Asian Visual Artists' Archive, 2005.

Barnwell, Andrea D. The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

Bernier, Cleste-Marie and Judie Newman. Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.

Bettelheim, Judith, ed. Afrocuba: Works on Paper 1968-2003. San Francisco: San Francisco State University, 2005.

Binstock, Jonathan P. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective. Forwards by Walter Hopps and Jacquelyn D. Serwer. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

Brown, David H. Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Brown, David H. "Thrones of the Orichas: Afro-Cuban Altars in New Jersey, New York, and Havana." African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 4 (October 1993): pp. 44-59, 85-7.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Vodun Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. [Reviewed by John P. Homiak, African Arts (Los Angeles) 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 24, 26-8, 30, 86.

Chiappini, Rudy. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Milan: Skira, 2005.

Cosentino, Donald J. Divine Revolution: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2005.

Farrington, Lisa E. Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Galembo, Phyllis. Voudou: Visions and Voices of Haiti. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005

Hauser, Mark W. and Christopher R. DeCorse. "Low-Fired Earthenwares in the African Diaspora: Problems and Prospects." International Journal of Historical Archaeology (New York) 7, no. 1 (2003): pp. 67-98.

Ittmann, John, et. al. Dox Thrash: An African-American Printmaker Rediscovered. The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists. Seattle: University of Washington Press with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001.

Lewis, Samella. African American Art and Artists. Forward by Floyd Coleman. Introduction by Mary Jane Hewitt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Malcolm-Woods, Rachel. Igbo Talking Signs in Antebellum Virginia: Religion, Ancestors and the Aesthetics of Freedom. Ph.D., U. of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005.

Mason, John. "Yoruba-American Art: New Rivers to Explore," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 241-250. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Nutall, Sarah, ed. Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. [Reviewed online by Heather Shirey on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23477.]

O'Keefe, Tricia. "Strategy or Spectacle? Postmodernism, African-American Artists and Art Scholarship." Third Text (London) 19, no. 6 (Nov. 2005): pp. 617-623.

Okediji, Moyo. The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art. A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.

Steward, James Christen, et. al. Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

Thompson, Robert Farris. "The Three Warriors: Atlantic Altars of Esu, Ogun, and Osoosi," in The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts edited by Abiodun, Rowland, Henry John Drewal, and John Pemberton III, pp. 225-239. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Wallace, Michele. "Afterward: 'Why Are There No Great Black Artists?' The Problem of Visuality in African-American Culture," in Black Popular Culture edited by Gina Dent, pp. 333-346. Seattle: Bay, 1992.

Westerbeck, Colin L., et. al. African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago. Seattle: University of Washington Press with the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

Wilfredo Lam and His Contemporaries, 1938-1952. New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 1992.

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