The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History

Introduction: Diaspora, as Far as Your Eyes Can See

Eddie Chambers

SECTION I

Routes and Roots of Global African Diaspora Art History

1. Stuart Hall and the Framing of Diaspora

Margaret T. Andrews

2. Towards a History of LGBTQ+ Contemporary African Art

Roderick A. Ferguson

3. The Diasporic Dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance

Anna Arabindan-Kesson

4. To Risk the Sovereignty of Our Own Stories

Yasmine Espert

5. Édouard Glissant and the Framing of Diaspora

Sam Coombes

6. HERE and HERE: ÀSÌKÒ and Beyond

Tamar Garb

7. South Africa: Destination and Point of Origin

Greer Valley

8. From Post-Black to the Afropolitan: The Studio Museum’s ‘F-Shows’ and Discourses on Black Art

Allison Young

9. African and Afrodescendant Art Production in Latin America: Research Challenges and Possibilities

Alejandro de la Fuente and Thomas B.F. Cummins

10. The Global Africa Project: Diasporic Connections, Explorations, and Interactions

Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King Hammond

SECTION II

Routes and Roots of African Diaspora Art History in Europe

11. “[T]heir Own Kind of Light”: Black Diasporic Consciousness in the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966-1972)

Maryam Ohadi Hamadani

12. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Italy

Tenley Bick

13. Indivisible or Invisible: Contemporary Artists of African Descent and French Multiculturalism

Monique Kerman

14. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Germany

Ingrid von Rosenberg

15. A Short History of Artists of African Descent in Scandinavia

Monica L. Miller

16. Contemporary African Art and Artists in Belgium

Hugo DeBlock

17. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Scotland

Catherine Spencer

18. A History of Black Diaspora Artists in Spain

Carmen Fracchia

19. Transforming the Facade: Black American Artists at the US Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, 1930–2022 

Jessi DiTillio

20. East African, South Asian, British Artists

Alice Correia

SECTION III

Hemispheric Dimensions of African Diaspora Art History

21. Cartographies of Kinship in the Caribbean Festival of Arts

Adrienne Rooney

22. Where Caribbean Art Ends and Latin American Art Begins

Tatiana Flores

23. Art Biennales in Africa and the Making of African Diaspora Art History: Perspectives from the Dak’Art Biennale

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi

24. Visualizing Historical and Contemporary African Diasporas: A Perspective from the Dakar Biennial

Sabrina Moura

25. Drawing Cuba into African Diaspora Art History

Paul Niell

26. Thinking Together: The Maghreb and African Diaspora Art History

Emma Chubb

27. Deconstructing the Archival Impulse in Contemporary Maghrebi Diasporic Praxis

Nancy Demerdash

28. Absented Presence: Canadian Dimensions of African Diasporic Art History

Pamela Edmonds

29. Afro-Brazilian Art in Transit: Abdias do Nascimento’s Visual-Arts Work from Rio de Janeiro to New York City

Abigail Lapin Dardashti

30. Curating African/Black Atlantic Art: Dimensions in Black Art and Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent

Henry John Drewal

SECTION IV

African Diaspora Art History: Scholars at Work: Art Historians, Museum and Gallery Curators, Pedagogy, and Archives

31. Claiming Space: The Caribbean’s (Counter-)Curatorial Interventions

Veerle Poupeye

32. X as Intersection: AfroLatinx Art

Adriana Zavala

33. Celebrations of Diaspora: The Work of FESTAC ‘77

Lindsay J. Twa

34. Went Looking for Africa”: Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and Artistic Travels in Africa

Daniel Haxall

35. Un-Doing Belonging: Mobilizing African Diaspora Art in the Art History Classroom

Deniz Sözen

36. Being Seen: An Art History of the Blackness of Technology

Megan Driscoll

37. Image Made Flesh: Black Representation, Material Archives and Contemporary Desire 

Erica Moiah James

38. Edson Chagas’ Photographic Realism

Serubiri Moses

39. Glitter and Grit: Michèle Pearson Clarke’s Black Queer Unreason

Joana Joachim

40. Pedagogical Challenges, Pedagogical Approaches: Contemporary Art from Africa and Its Diaspora: The Analytical Tools

Bolaji Campbell

Conclusion: Diaspora Writ Large: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Julie Mehretu, and Wangechi Mutu

Uchenna Itam

Biography

Eddie Chambers holds the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.