LibGuides: Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: Racism &amp; Anti-Racism

Racism & Anti-Racism

Afri-Comics
Published in 1975-1977 by the South African government to defend Apartheid. From UCLA.
Anti-Black Imagery
Images from the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University. Highly offensive imagery.
Anti-Racist Art Teachers
Site created by art teachers "working towards removing biases, stereotypes, and false narratives in art education.?
Art Against Racism
Non-profit "that harnesses the transformative power of the arts to educate and engage communities about the need to eradicate racism and creates an anti-racism."
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources
Bibliography put together by design historians to assist other instructors in decentering whiteness in their classes.
Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs
Photographs taken in 1964 of the Civil Rights movement. From the University of Southern Mississippi.
Journey to Equal Rights
3-d tours of United States related to social equality movements, created by CyArk.
Medu Art Ensemble Collection
Works by a collective of anti-apartheid activists based in Gaborone, Botswana. From UCLA.
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical compositions found in sheet music publications in the Brown University Library collections. Warning: contains some offensive and racist material.
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War
A very old website from the University of Virginia but lots of scholarly information.
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
Images taken as souvenirs at lynchings, collected by James Allen. Warning: contains disturbing material.

Ben Shahn. Daughter of Sharecropper, Arkansas. 1935. Public Domain.