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David Hammons, Bag Lady in Flight, c, 1975-76 (reconstructed 1990). Shopping bags, grease, hair. Photo by Ed Glendinning. Courtesy of the Eileen Harris Norton Collection.

David Hammons, Bag Lady in Flight, c, 1975-76 (reconstructed 1990). Shopping bags, grease, hair. Photo by Ed Glendinning. Courtesy of the Eileen Harris Norton Collection.

“Dossier: Afro-Pessimist Aesthetics,” ASAP/Journal 5.2 (May 2020)

“Dossier: Afro-Pessimist Aesthetics,” ASAP/Journal 5.2 (May 2020)

“Dark Descriptions of Black Appearance,” Periscope: Social Text Online (January 2020)

“Dark Descriptions of Black Appearance,” Periscope: Social Text Online (January 2020)

Selva Journal, Issue Zero, April 2019

Selva Journal, Issue Zero, April 2019

 

Reveal and Restraint: Ayanah Moor’s Social Abstraction

Sampada Aranke, Ayanah Moor; Reveal and Restraint: Ayanah Moor's Social Abstraction. liquid blackness 1 October 2023; 7 (2): 112–126.

 

Functional Abstractions: Sensorial Afterlives of The Black Body

A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence
forthcoming, April 2022

 
 

How to See Like Hammons

liquid blackness
2021

 
 
 

“Bag Lady in Flight”

ASAP/J: the open access platform of ASAP/Journal, 14.3
Black One Shot, edited by Michael Gillespie and Lisa Uddin

2020

 

Voiding From Nowhere: Abject Materiality in David Hammons’s Pissed Off)

ASAP/ Journal 5.2
“Dossier: Afropessimist Aesthetics,” edited by Sampada Aranke and Huey Copeland

2020

 

Dark Descriptions of Black Appearance

Periscope: Social Text Online
Special Dossier: Shady Convivialities in Tavia Nyong’o’s Afro-Fabulations

2020

Response to T.J. Clark’s “The Conditions of Artistic Creation” (1974)

Selva Journal
Issue Zero

2019

 
Charles White, General Moses (Harriet Tubman). 1965. Ink on paper, 47 × 68" (119.4 × 172.7 cm). Private collection. © The Charles White Archives/ Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

Charles White, General Moses (Harriet Tubman). 1965. Ink on paper, 47 × 68" (119.4 × 172.7 cm). Private collection. © The Charles White Archives/ Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

Political Resistance

African American Studies
Oxford Bibliographies
2017

 
Film still from The Murder of Fred Hampton, 1971, dir. The Film Group, distributed by Facets Multimedia.

Film still from The Murder of Fred Hampton, 1971, dir. The Film Group, distributed by Facets Multimedia.