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• Ademolu, Edward. "A Pictured Africa: Drawing as a Visual Qualitative Research Methodology for Examining British African Diaspora Imaginings of Their Ancestral ‘Home’." Visual Studies 37, no. 4 (Sept. 2022): pp. 296-310.
• 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.
• Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
• 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.
• Capshaw, Katharine. Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. [Reviewed by Darren Newbury in Visual Studies 31, no. 4 (2016): pp. 356-360.]
• Chiappini, Rudy. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Milan: Skira, 2005.
• Cooksey, Susan, Robin Poyner, and Hein Vanhee, eds. Kongo Across the Waters. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013.
• Cosentino, Donald J. Divine Revolution: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2005.
• Demerdash, Nancy. "The Quilts of Bisa Butler." The Textile Museum Journal, 2022.
• Farkas, Solange. “From ferramentaria to Trance: Symbolism, Concept and Religiosity in the Work of Eneida Sanches.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): pp. 73-77.
• Farrington, Lisa E. Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Filipovic, Elena. David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.
• Finch, Jonathan. "Inside the Pot House: Diaspora, Identity and Locale in Barbadian Ceramics." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2013): pp. 115-130.
• Feldman, Hannah From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945–1962. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. [Reviewed by Claire Wintle in Visual Studies 31, no. 4 (2016): p. 361.]
• Galembo, Phyllis. Voudou: Visions and Voices of Haiti. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005
• Gioni, Massimiliano, ed. Chris Ofili: Night and Day. New York, NY: Skira Rizzoli, 2014.
• Groover, Mark D. and Tyler J. Wolford. "The Archaeology of Rural Affluence and Landscape Change at the Clemens Farmstead." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2013): pp. 131-150.
• 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.
• Jackson, Ayana. “Artist’s Pages.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): pp. 33-36.
• Jumabhoy, Zehra. “Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): pp. 88-95.
• Junker, Kristine. Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014.
• Lamoni, Giulia. “African Masks, Family Photographs and Open Suitcases: Rosana Paulino, Mónica de Miranda and Maimuna Adam.” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): Pp. 5-14.
• 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.
• Posnansky, Merrick. "Historical Archaeology in the East Midlands and East Africa: Personal Reflections." Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 2, no. 2 (Nov. 2013): pp. 172-176.
• Powell, Richard J. Black Art: A Cultural History. World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997; 2nd edition, 2002.
• Prabhu, Anjali. Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. [Reviewed by Kathryn Lachman in African Studies Review 60, no. 3 (Dec. 2017): pp. 255-259.]
• Sansi, Roger. Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazillian Art and Culture in the 20th Century. Remapping Cultural History Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. [Reviewed online by Cynthia M. Canejo on H-Net, available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26433.]
• Steward, James Christen, et. al. Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
• Thompson, Barbara, ed. Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. [Reviewed online by Margaret Rose Vendryes on CAA Reviews, available to members of CAA at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1245.]
• Thompson, Robert Farris. Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas. New York: Museum for African Art; Munich: Prestel, 1993. [Reviewed by Judith Bettelheim in Art Journal 53, no. 2 (Summer 1994): pp. 99-103.]
• Thompson, Cheryl. “Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark Through Feminist Art: Why Is She Still Smiling?” n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal 31 (2013): 65-72.
• Thompson, Krista A. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. [Reviewed by Denya Phenix in Visual Studies 32, no. 1 (2017): pp. 81-82.]
• 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.
• Tsai, Eugenie, ed. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2015.
• Twa, Lindsay J. Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910–1950. Andover: Routledge, 2016. [Reviewed by José Gutiérrez in Visual Studies 31, no. 4 (2016): pp. 355-356.]
• 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.
• Weiss, Ellen. Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2011. [Reviewed by Katherine Wheeler in JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 68, no. 2 (Oct. 2014): pp. 267-268.]
• 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.