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