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“Collection.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection. Accessed 19 May 2026.

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.github.io/. Accessed 19 May 2026.

CrashCourse. “Black American History.” YouTube, uploaded by CrashCourse, www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNcAJRf3bE1IJU6nMfHj86W. Accessed 19 May 2026.

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“Civil Rights History Project.” Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/about-this-collection/. Accessed 19 May 2026.

Moore, David S., et al. The Practice of Statistics. 6th ed., W. H. Freeman, 2018.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.

Berger, Maurice. Museums, Race, and Representation. Duke University Press, 2020.

Further Readings

Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black Interior. Graywolf Press, 2004.

Berger, Maurice. Museums, Race, and Representation. Duke University Press, 2020.

Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editors. African American Lives. Oxford UP, 2004.

hooks, bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. The New Press, 1995.

Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919. Henry Holt, 1993.

Powell, Richard J. Black Art: A Cultural History. 3rd ed., Thames & Hudson, 2019.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.

Thelwell, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, et al. Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies. Smithsonian Books, 2021.

Thompson, Krista A. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice. Duke UP, 2015.