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left: Nefertiti, Neues Museum Berlin. rigth: Cover, Black Women in Antiquity, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, 1988.

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Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti

Another find from our great archive: Fatima El-Tayeb on how European institutions have consistently appropriated Black historical personalities.

(left) Depiction of Dogon God “Amma ”, shown like many ancient God’s with an elongated head. (right) Cover of Dr. Marimba Ani, Yurugu: An African- Centered Critique Of European Thought and Behavior, 1994.

Racism: a bigger picture

“Germanomania” and the Myth of Nationalism

The unfading legacies of Western racism is a paradigm C& continuously examines through…

(left) James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, A Rap On Race, book cover of 1970. (right) Langston Hughes, The Ways Of White Folks, book cover of 1934.

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How Germany is in Denial of its Historical Racism Today

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

(left) Cover of Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (right) Lyle Ashton Harris, Brotherhood, Crossroads and Etcetera #3 [in collaboration with Thomas Allen Harris], 1994. Courtesy the artist.

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How Frantz Fanon Has Influenced Generations of Queer Artists

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the

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The First Artist to Challenge the White Queer Gaze in a Biennial

In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…

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