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, NigeriaSystems of Slavery and White Supremacy
ZIDDI MSANGI with SILAS MUNRO
KEY WORDS: Cotton, Dutch Wax Fabrics, Kanga, African Textiles, Coloniality, World Systems TheoryDesigning Emancipation
PIERRE BOWINS
KEY WORDS: Abolitionists Broadsides, Freedom's Journal (1827), Underground RailroadEmancipation Proclamation, The North Star (1847), William Wells Brown
Blackface and Minstrelsy Tradition
KELLY WALTERS
KEY WORDS: Blackface, Minstrelsy, Music Publishing, Black RepresentationBlack 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 StudyBlack 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 RennisanceThe Great Migration: Harlem Artists Guild, and the 306 Group
TASHEKA ARCENEAUX-SUTTON
KEY WORDS: Abolitionists Broadsides, Freedom's Journal (1827), Underground RailroadEmancipation Proclamation, The North Star (1847), William Wells Brown
Strikethrough: Typography Messages of Protest for Civil Rights
COLETTE GAITERIterative Identity: Art Deco, World’s Fair, and American limits on humanity
OMARI SOUZA
KEY WORDS : Streamlining, Art Deco, Redlining, Negro Motorist Greenbook, Gentrification, SegregationBlack 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 SimsBehind and Ahead of the Times: Histories and Futures of Black Futurity
LAUREN WILLIAMS
KEY WORDS: Shifting technology, Sylvia HarrisRadical Design Pedagogy: Towards an Autochthonic Black Aesthetic for Graphic Design Pedagogy
AUDREY BENNETT
KEY WORDS: Intersectionality, Sylvia Harris, Ethnomathmatics, Ron EglashAll class recordings are owned and controlled by POLYMODE EAST, Inc. Please contact us at class@bipocdesignhistory.com with any licensing inquiries