This guide lists resources with a focus on BIPOC art history including databases, professional associations, museums/archives, and images and other reference sources.
Journals - scholarly and popular and anti-racist learning materials:
- Race, Space, and ArchitectureAn open access curriculum designed for discussions about racial history and racial injustice in the field of architecture. Poster series, sound recordings, and a digital image library are accessible on the website.
- Places JournalAn online journal that is dedicated to supporting BIPOC authors and scholarship in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
- Anti-Racism and Global Architectural HistoryThe Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) created a lecture series on the topic of Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History. The resource includes lecture slides and notes.
- ARTstorARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology.
- SAH Special Booklist: Race and DiversityThe Society of Architectural Historians compiled a bibliography of educational resources on the topic of race and diversity. The bibliography is divided into the following categories: Pioneering Minority Architects, Case Studies, Race (Concept), Teaching Race, and Social Justice. Formats of resources include books, journals, and media.
Archival resources, images, and newspapers:
- African and Asian Visual Artists ArchiveA comprehensive archive of contemporary art by artists of African and Asian descent in Britain.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)A searchable online catalog with millions of digitized items to browse, including photos, maps and books, from libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions around the United States.
- The Frick Art Reference LibraryA research guide with a bibliography of BIPOC artists, collectors, and dealers organized into four identities: Black artists, collectors, and dealers; indigenous artists, collectors, and dealers; Asian artists, collectors, and dealers; and Hispanic and Latinx arts, collectors, and dealers.
- The Getty Research PortalThe digital collection includes 169,636 total titles of art history publications, rare books, and literature. Some records include images.
- Great Diverse Designers LibraryThe virtual resource, which features more than 400 women and people of color, is an ever-evolving repository of great talent with the aim of providing long-overdue recognition for marginalized groups. It’s also an important step toward a more inclusive industry amidst a global reckoning with racism and discrimination.
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs CatalogPrints and photographs archived at the Library of Congress. Relevant collections include Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints, Posters: Artist Posters, African merican Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition, Architecture, Design & Engineering Drawings, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, College Women's Association of Japan Print Show Collection, Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, Popular Graphic Design, and more.
- Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press from 1990, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
Professional associations/organizations:
- Association for Critical Race Art HistoryA professional organization that focuses on the intersection between race, art, and visual culture.
- Beyond the Built EnvironmentAn organization that promotes diversity in design and architecture professions. The resource includes a list of designers organized by state and information about their exhibition "Say It Loud."
- Indigenous DesignFocusing on Indigenous Designers and Design Firms, this guide focuses on what indigenous design means--moving beyond just the aesthetic value. Through resources and linked designers, this guide interrogates the thought-process behind indigenous design.
- National Association of African-American StudiesA professional organization that serves and supports research of African and African American, Hispanic, Latinx, Chicano(a), Native American, and Asian experiences.
- National Organization of Minority Architecture (NOMA)A national organization that provides BIPOC resources to architects. The purpose of the organization is to reduce the effects of racism in the architectural profession.
- Raciscim Untaughtacilitate workshops for academics and industry to identify forms of Racialized Design – design that perpetuates elements of racism. Includes links to resources, projects, exhibits, and suggested reading.
Last Updated: Sep 16, 2024 4:24 PM
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