Selected Sources for Interrogating Histories
Saidiya Hartman https://www.artforum.com/interviews/saidiya-hartman-83579
Characteristics of white supremacy organizations/culture:
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Jessica Zeller, Shapes of American Ballet. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Resources
Ivan Van Sertima, Golden Age of the Moor. Journal of African Civilizations, 1992.
Ivan Van Sertima, They Came Before Columbus. Random House, 2003.
When the Moors Ruled in Europe (Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oafKyRDagsY
Phil Chan, Final Bow for Yellowface. Brooklyn, NY: Yellow Peril Press, 2020.
Theresa Ruth Howard’s website: https://mobballet.org/index.php/about-us/
George G.M. James, Stolen Legacy. Allegro Editions, 2017.
Ralph P. Lock, Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (editor in chief), The Study Quran. Harper Collins, 2015.
K. Meira Goldberg, Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Catherine Fletcher, The Black Prince of Florence.Oxford University Press, 2016.
The work of Dr. Kaba Kamene: https://gumroad.com/kabakamene?sort=page_layout
During his lecture and the Q&A, Jehbreal called attention to the fallacy of using “Eurocentric” as a synonym for “white” cultures or aesthetics. Currently and historically, Europe contains a multiplicity of cultures, influences, and communities. More sources on this topic:
Kwame Anthony Appiah, “There Is No Such Thing as Western Civilization,” The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
“He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness,” New York Times, Feb. 2, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html