Bibliography

BOOKS and CATALOGS

Cahan, Susan E. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Cooks, Bridget. Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

English, Darby. 1971: A Year in the Life of Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Gaither, Edmund B. Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston. Boston: Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists; Museum of Fine Arts, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970.

Singerman, Howard and Sarah Watson. Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971. New York: Hunter College Art Galleries, 2018. 

DISSERTATIONS


Amaki, Amalia K. “The All-Black Exhibition in America, 1963–1976: Its History, Perception, and the Critical Response.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, 1994.

Meyerowitz, Lisa. “Exhibiting Equality: Black-Run Museums and Galleries in 1970s New York.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, 2001.

ARTICLES and ESSAYS


“When that Time Came Rolling Down,” panel 1. In Artist and Influence, edited by Leo Hamalian and Judith Wilson. New York: Hatch-Billops Collection, 1985. Panelists: Betty Blayton-Taylor, Theodore Gunn, Tom Lloyd, Tyrone Mitchell, Ademola Olugebefola, Mahler Ryder, and William T. Williams

“When that Time Came Rolling Down,” panel 2. In Artist and Influence, edited by Leo Hamalian and Judith Wilson. New York: Hatch-Billops Collection, 1985. Panelists: Kay Brown, Ernest Crichlow, Pat Davis, James Denmark, Dindga McCannon, Edward Sherman, and Ruth Sherman.

Bentsen, Cheryl. “Life in the Back of the Gallery,” New York Newsday, May 10, 1971. 

Cooks, Bridget. “Black Artists and Activism: Harlem on My Mind.” American Studies 48, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 5–39.

Singerman, Howard. “Insisting on Inclusion and Making Space Downtown,” in Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display. London: Afterall Books, 2022.

Wallace, Caroline V. “Exhibiting Authenticity: The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s Protests of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968–71.” Art Journal 74, no. 2 (Summer 2015), 5–23.  

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