Class & Contributor Information

Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design (19th CENTURY – 21st CENTURY) 

Specific contributors are listed below the title of the class they lead.  In order to foster connection, we encourage you to follow our contributors on the web, and social media and check out their design scholarship, and other projects.

Afrikan Alphabets and African Diasporic Design Lineages

SAKI MAFUNDIKWA

KEY WORDS:  Afrikan Alphabets, Proto Writing, Syllabaries, Writing Systems, Africa, Angola, Brazil, Congo, Cuba, Nigeria

Systems of Slavery and White Supremacy

ZIDDI MSANGI with SILAS MUNRO

KEY WORDS: Cotton, Dutch Wax Fabrics, Kanga, African Textiles, Coloniality, World Systems Theory
 

Designing Emancipation

PIERRE BOWINS

KEY WORDS:  Abolitionists Broadsides, Freedom's Journal (1827), Underground Railroad
Emancipation Proclamation, The North Star (1847), William Wells Brown

Blackface and Minstrelsy Tradition

KELLY WALTERS

KEY WORDS:  Blackface, Minstrelsy, Music Publishing, Black Representation

Black Data: W.E.B. Du Bois and Data Visualization

SILAS MUNRO with JASON FORREST

KEY WORDS:  W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T Washington, Paris, France, The Colored American Magazine, American Negro Exhibition, Georgia Negro: A Social Study

Black Queer Stories in Print: 19th Century to the Harlem Renaissance

JON KEY with SILAS MUNRO 

KEY WORDS:  The New Negro, Alain Leroy Locke, Langston Hughes, FIRE!!, Aaron Douglas, Harlem Rennisance

The Great Migration: Harlem Artists Guild, and the 306 Group

TASHEKA ARCENEAUX-SUTTON

KEY WORDS:  Abolitionists Broadsides, Freedom's Journal (1827), Underground Railroad
Emancipation Proclamation, The North Star (1847), William Wells Brown

Strikethrough: Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights

COLETTE GAITER

Iterative Identity: Art Deco, World’s Fair, and American limits on humanity

OMARI SOUZA

KEY WORDS : Streamlining, Art Deco, Redlining, Negro Motorist Greenbook, Gentrification, Segregation

Black Revolutions: Organizing the Production of Black Design

CHRIS DINGWALL

KEY WORDS: AfriCOBRA, Chicago, Ebony Magazine 

Funk, Blaxploitation, & Hip Hop Aesthetics

TASHEKA ARCENEAUX-SUTTON, PIERRE BOWINS with SILAS MUNRO

KEY WORDS:  Hip Hop, Rap, Funk, Phase 2, Buddy Esquire, A Riley, Danny Tongue, Cisco Kid, Fab Five Freddy, Spike Lee, Art Sims

Behind and Ahead of the Times: Histories and Futures of Black Futurity

LAUREN WILLIAMS

KEY WORDS:  Shifting technology, Sylvia Harris

Radical Design Pedagogy: Towards an Autochthonic Black Aesthetic for Graphic Design Pedagogy

AUDREY BENNETT

KEY WORDS: Intersectionality, Sylvia Harris, Ethnomathmatics, Ron Eglash