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 MUNROKEY WORDS: Cotton, Dutch Wax Fabrics, Kanga, African Textiles, Coloniality, World Systems Theory
Designing Emancipation
PIERRE BOWINSKEY WORDS: Abolitionists Broadsides, Freedom's Journal (1827), Underground Railroad
Emancipation Proclamation, The North Star (1847), William Wells Brown
Blackface and Minstrelsy Tradition
KELLY WALTERSKEY 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 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-SUTTONKEY 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 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 DINGWALLKEY WORDS: AfriCOBRA, Chicago, Ebony Magazine
Funk, Blaxploitation, & Hip Hop Aesthetics
TASHEKA ARCENEAUX-SUTTON, PIERRE BOWINS with SILAS MUNROKEY 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 WILLIAMSKEY WORDS: Shifting technology, Sylvia Harris
Radical Design Pedagogy: Towards an Autochthonic Black Aesthetic for Graphic Design Pedagogy
AUDREY BENNETTKEY WORDS: Intersectionality, Sylvia Harris, Ethnomathmatics, Ron Eglash