academic entries
Click the title of each entry for PDF files.
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)
“Dark Descriptions of Black Appearance,” Periscope: Social Text Online (January 2020)
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
A Questionnaire on Decolonization
October 174
2020
“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
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.
Fred Hampton and the Coming Revolution
Trans-scripts 3
2013