“Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation” (2012). Poem from When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz (b. 1978). Mojave/Latinx  

“Look” (2014). Poem by Solmaz Sharif (b. 1983). Iran/United States  

“Not Even This” (2020). Poem by Ocean Vuong (b. 1988). Vietnam/United States 

“Bloodchild” (1984). Republished in Bloodchild and Other Stories in 1995. Science fiction short story by Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006). United States   

“Interpreter of Maladies” (1999). Short story by Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967). From the book of short stories also called Interpreter of Maladies. India/United States  

“The Fact of Blackness” (1952). Chapter from Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961). France

"They Placed the Map in Her Heart": A Poet Warrior's Story (2021). Excerpt from the memoir Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo (b. 1951.) Muscogee Nation, United States  

Drowning Girl (1963). Oil painting by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997) based on comic book art by Tony Abruzzo in 1962. United States  

Super Indian No. 2, 1971 (1971). Oil painting by Fritz Scholder (1937-2005). Payómkawichum (Luiseño)/United States   

Marilyn (Vanitas) (1977). Oil/acrylic painting by Audrey Flack (b. 1931). United States   

The Wounded Deer (1946). Oil painting by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). Mexico   

Hollywood Africans (1983). Acrylic/oil painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). United States  

Street Story Quilt (1985). Triptych of cotton canvas, acrylic paint, ink marker, dyed and printed cotton, and sequins, sewn to a cotton flannel backing by Faith Ringgold (b. 1930). United States  

Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson, Arizona (negative 1968, printed 1976). Gelatin silver print by Ansel Adams (1902-1948). United States

Untitled #96 self-portrait. (1981) Chromogenic color print photograph by Cindy Sherman (b. 1954). United States  

“Pastoral Interlude” (1987). Gelatin silver print, colored by hand, by Ingrid Pollard (born 1953). 1^st image in the series showing woman sitting alone by a fence. United Kingdom

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii (1995). Fifty-one channel video installation by Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006). Korea/United States   

Umbrella (2020). Short animated film written and directed by Helena Hilario and Mario Pece. Brazil  

Starman (Top Of The Pops, 1972). Performance by David Bowie (1947 – 2016). United Kingdom 

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The Artist is Present (still image) / The Artist is Present (video clip) (2010). Marina Abramovic (b. 1946). Yugoslavia  

Christmas Carol: Marley Arrives (2020). Created and performed by Manual Cinema. Chicago  

Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death (1989). Poster by Keith Haring (1958 – 1990). United States  

Faith in Women (2005). Spray paint mural in Minneapolis by Lady Pink (b. 1964). Ecuador/United States