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Foreword / Lubaina Himid
Preface: "We will be/who we want/where we want/with whom we want"
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Inside the invisible" : African American and Black British artists and art-making traditions
"Do something with it" : the search for a new critical language in African American and Black British art
"I'm always ready to die" : memorializing slavery and narrativizing freedom: Betye Saar, Lubaina Himid, Benny Andrews, Tam Joseph
"Lifting, hanging, burning" : defiance, dissidence, and to destroy is to create: Noah Purifoy, Rasheed Araeen, Juginder Lamba, Melvin Edwards
"Branded, raped, beaten" : acts and arts of bearing witness: Maud Sulter, Carrie Mae Weems, Marlene Smith
"How to paint suffering" : anti-portraiture, anti-product, and anti-painting: Frank Bowling, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Ofili
"Enter at your own risk" : artist-as-trickster-as-prophet-as-historian-as-witness-as-freedom-fighter-as-artist: Donald Rodney, Keith Piper, Thornton Dial, Kara Walker
"Buried, hidden and disguised" : "storying" in a state of shock: Faith Ringgold, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson
"A freak in the blizzard of the white man's gaze" : black absent presences and present absences: Eddie Chambers, Ingrid Pollard, Gavin Jantjes, Joy Gregory
An "indelible mark"? : autobiographies, archives, and amnesia: Sutapa Biswas, Chila Kumari Burman, Vanley Burke, Roshini Kempadoo
"I was branded" : spectacularized histories, serial narratives, and illicit iconographies: Steve McQueen, Hew Locke, Godfried Donkor, Hank Willis Thomas
"Power to the powerless" : tracing black lives in protest portraits, history paintings, and radical installations: Barbara Walker, Kimathi Donkor, Mary Evans, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
"Hurting to death" : struggle, survival, and storytelling in salvaged objects, paint, beads, and steel: Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Sokari Douglas Camp, Joyce J. Scott
Conclusion: "Survivors of the diasporic journey" : past, present, and future artists and art-making traditions: Deborah Willis, Gurminder Sikand, Mona Hatoum, Zarina Bhimji, Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson, Thomas J. Price, Larry Achiampong, Nicola Frimpong
Notes
Bibliographic note.
Preface: "We will be/who we want/where we want/with whom we want"
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Inside the invisible" : African American and Black British artists and art-making traditions
"Do something with it" : the search for a new critical language in African American and Black British art
"I'm always ready to die" : memorializing slavery and narrativizing freedom: Betye Saar, Lubaina Himid, Benny Andrews, Tam Joseph
"Lifting, hanging, burning" : defiance, dissidence, and to destroy is to create: Noah Purifoy, Rasheed Araeen, Juginder Lamba, Melvin Edwards
"Branded, raped, beaten" : acts and arts of bearing witness: Maud Sulter, Carrie Mae Weems, Marlene Smith
"How to paint suffering" : anti-portraiture, anti-product, and anti-painting: Frank Bowling, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chris Ofili
"Enter at your own risk" : artist-as-trickster-as-prophet-as-historian-as-witness-as-freedom-fighter-as-artist: Donald Rodney, Keith Piper, Thornton Dial, Kara Walker
"Buried, hidden and disguised" : "storying" in a state of shock: Faith Ringgold, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson
"A freak in the blizzard of the white man's gaze" : black absent presences and present absences: Eddie Chambers, Ingrid Pollard, Gavin Jantjes, Joy Gregory
An "indelible mark"? : autobiographies, archives, and amnesia: Sutapa Biswas, Chila Kumari Burman, Vanley Burke, Roshini Kempadoo
"I was branded" : spectacularized histories, serial narratives, and illicit iconographies: Steve McQueen, Hew Locke, Godfried Donkor, Hank Willis Thomas
"Power to the powerless" : tracing black lives in protest portraits, history paintings, and radical installations: Barbara Walker, Kimathi Donkor, Mary Evans, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
"Hurting to death" : struggle, survival, and storytelling in salvaged objects, paint, beads, and steel: Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Sokari Douglas Camp, Joyce J. Scott
Conclusion: "Survivors of the diasporic journey" : past, present, and future artists and art-making traditions: Deborah Willis, Gurminder Sikand, Mona Hatoum, Zarina Bhimji, Yinka Shonibare, Hurvin Anderson, Thomas J. Price, Larry Achiampong, Nicola Frimpong
Notes
Bibliographic note.