Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young: Back and Song
Artists in Conversation
Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young in Conversation with Arthur Jafa
Recommended Watching, Reading & Listening
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Nuotama Frances Bodomo. BONESHAKER. 2013.
Nuotama Frances Bodomo. Afronauts. 2014.
Ben Caldwell. Medea. 1973.
Ben Caldwell. I & I: An African Allegory. 1979.
Ben Caldwell and David P. Cline. Civil Rights History Project (U.S.). 2013.
Tina Campt & Jenn Nkiru. Call & Response: Tina Campt & Jenn Nkiru on haptic images. 2018.
Kathleen Collins. Losing Ground. 1982. Milestone Film & Video.
Maya Deren. Meshes of the Afternoon. 1943.
Maya Deren. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 1985.
Stephanie Etienne and Kanika Harris. Listen to Me.
Ja’Tovia Gary.__An Ecstatic Experience. 2015.
Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas. The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish language). 1968.
Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Leo Genovese, Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington. Solidarity Of Arts, 2014 live in Gdansk, Poland, August 16, 2014.
Kahlil Joseph and Malik Sayeed. Wildcat. 2013.
Kahlil Joseph. BLKNWS. 2019.
Barbara McCullough. Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification. 1979.
Terence Nance. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. 2012. Variance Films.
Terence Nance. Random Acts of Flyness. August 4, 2018-present. HBO.
Sidney Poitier. Brother John. 1971.
JAY-Z. 4:44. Directed by TNEG. 2017.
Clement Virgo. The Planet of Junior Brown. 1997.
The Ummah Chroma (Bradford Young, Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas, Kamasi Washington). As Told To G/D Thyself. 2019.
Matt Wolf. [ Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project|https://recorderfilm.com/]. 2019.
Bradford Young. Black America Again. 2016.
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Marimba Ani.Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1994.
Ayi Kwei Armah. The Healers: A Novel. Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 2000.
Asfa-Wossen Asserate. King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. Trans. Peter Lewis. London: Haus Publishing Ltd., 2015.
Toni Cade Bambara. The Salt Eaters. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
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Tina Campt. Listening to Images. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Tina Campt. The New Black Gaze. Forthcoming essay collection.
Jason Daley. “San People of South Africa Issue Code of Ethics for Researchers.” Smithsonian Magazine. March 23, 2017.
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Milford Graves. “Milford Graves by Aakash Mittal”. BOMB. January 9, 2018.
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson: Minor Compositions, 2013.
Saidiya Hartman. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Kelly M. Hoffmana, Sophie Trawaltera, Jordan R. Axta, and M. Norman Oliver. “Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Recommendations, and False Beliefs About Biological Differences between Blacks and Whites.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 16 (April 4, 2016): 4296−430.
Imar Hutchins. Delights of the Garden: Vegetarian Cuisine Prepared Without Heat. From Delights of the Garden Restaurants. New York, NY: Main Street Books, 1996.
Arthur Jafa and TNEG. Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. New York, NY: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 2016.
Arthur Jafa. A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions. Edited by Amira Gad and Joseph Constable. London: Serpentine Galleries, 2018.
N. K. Jemisin. The Broken Earth Book Series. Orbit Books. Book 1: The Fifth Season, 2015; Book 2: The Obelisk Gate, 2016; Book 3: The Stone Sky, 2017.
Meeta Rani Jha. “Black is Beautiful: Anti-racist Aesthetic and Cultural Resistance.” In Black Is Beautiful, 31–51, 2015. (download PDF )
Katherine McKittrick.Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis.. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Wes Moore and Mark Gunnery. “A Toxic Legacy: Confronting Lead Poisoning In Baltimore.” Interview with Harriet Washington, David Rosner, Ruth Ann Norton, and Lawrence Brown. Future City. WYPR. 49:24 min. October 16, 2019 .
Elissa Blount Moorhead, Melinda Nugent, Gina Harrell, and Ericka Blount Danois. “Meet The Creative Women Behind Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Music Video :Interview:.’ Okayplayer. July 12, 2017.
Fred Moten. “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh).” The South Atlantic Quarterly 112, no. 4 (Fall 2013) [download PDF ]
Fred Moten. Consent Not to Be a Single Being. Volumes 1-3. Vol 1: Black and Blur. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017; Vol 2: Stolen Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018; Vol 3: The Universal Machine. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Elijah Muhammad and Fard Muhammad. How to Eat to Live, Book 1. Chicago, IL: Muhammad’s Temple of Islam No. 2, 1967. & How to Eat to Live, Book 2. Chicago, IL: Muhammad’s Temple of Islam No. 2, 1972.
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Laura Osborne and Ivor Osbourne.The Rasta Cookbook: Vegetarian Cuisine, Eaten with the Salt of the Earth. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992.
Deirdre Cooper Owens. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017.
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Nathaniel Rich. “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change.” New York Times. August 1, 2018.
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Christina Elizabeth Sharpe.In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin. How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance. New York, NY: Bold Type Books, 2019.
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Harriet A. Washington. A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. New York, NY: Little, Brown Spark, 2019.
Frank B. Wilderson.Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.