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Art in Special Collections: Latino and African American Fine Art and Photography Collections in Academic Institutions
(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2010-05-15)
Often university libraries or archive/special collections house large fine art and photographic collections by African American
and Latino artists. These collections are frequently hidden due to inadequate funding to ...
Racial Realism or Foolish Optimism: An African American Muslim Woman in the Field
(Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)
This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
Uncovering Black Feminist Writers 1963-90: An Evaluation of Their Coverage in Research Tools
(American Library Association, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2009-03)
Has the move toward online resources had an effect on source material for the study of black feminist theory? The last forty years have witnessed a critical mass of literary and theoretical writings on the black feminist ...
The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart
(Lexington Books, 2016-03-11)
Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003) combine Africa, Islam and Muslims to show positive and negative sides of what would have happened if whites were the enslaved and blacks were the slave ...
Bibliography on Black Women's Hair Research
(2014-11-02)
A selected listing of resources for the study of or research on Black women's hair
Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family's Saga
(New York University Press, 2016-03)
On August 29, 2005 the world witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as it swept through New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi; a natural disaster that will forever be linked to the images of ...
I Am Not My Hair: Reclaiming Black Beauty
(2019-05-01)
This poster explores the hairstyles and hair stories of Black women in America. The images follow a historical chronology from
the legacy of slavery to these contemporary times. Black women have both struggled to conform ...
Deep in the Heart of Texzines
(2019-05-14)
This poster highlights some of the more graphically and thematically interesting zines in the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives Zine collection as well as the RaceRiot! speakers who shared their passionate opinions and ...
Reel Muslim Women: The Depiction of Muslim Women on Film and TV
(2019-05-01)
This poster explores the depiction of Muslim women in film and on television. Hollywood has often portrayed Muslim women as angry, insensitive mothers, sisters, and daughters in dramas such as The Bodyguard and American ...
Are We Having Fun Yet
(Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, 2016-05-27)
This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to ...