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Systems of Slavery and White Supremacy 

ZIDDI MSANGI with SILAS MUNRO


Counter to colonial notions of the savage or primitive African, there is a complex, rich and multi-cultural history of African design. From the research of graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa on Afrikan alphabets and graphic languages, this opening video will set the course from African design lineages that travel from the continent to America through the transatlantic slave trade.


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  BOOKS 


  • On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sara Ahmed

  • Sweetness and Power. by Sidney Mintz. 1985. New York: Viking Penguin.

  • “1492: A New World View.”
    In Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View.     by Sylvia Wynter. 1995. edited by Vera Lawrence Hyatt and Rex Nettleford, 5–57. Washington: Smithsonian.

  • Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures Book
    53) by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

  • And she told 2 friends : an international exhibit of graphic design by women by Kali Nikitas
  • “Bauhaus and the People Without Design History.” In Bauhaus Futures. by Elizabeth Chin, 2019. edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny, 85–94. Cambridge: MIT Press.

  • Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. by Aimi Hamraie. 2017. 3rd ed. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press.



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