INFORMATION - PEOPLE

This section offers a growing index of key people related to, and those who have engaged with, the study of the black Atlantic, including: artists, curators, writers, musicians, performers, art historians, political leaders and cultural critics. Individual pages will include images, links to relevant research, terms, and external sites.

The Information on these pages has been contributed by undergraduate and post-graduate students, and has been moderated by an online post-graduate board from the University of Liverpool.

This list is ordered alphabetically by surname, please click the names below to access specific pages.

These pages are under construction, those underlined contain content ready to be viewed.
 

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A   

Amaral, Tarsila do

Archer, John

Archer-Straw, Petrine

Armstrong, Louis

B   

Bailey, Radcliffe

Baker, Josephine

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

Bearden, Romare

Breitz, Candice

Bontemps, Arna

Bowling, Frank

Boyce, Sonia

Brancusi, Constantin

Burra, Edward

C    

Calloway, Cab

Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena

Cardenas, Agustin

Carmichael, Stokely

Cox, Renee

Cozier, Christopher

Cullen, Countee

Cunard, Nancy

D   

Deren, Maya

Douglas, Aaron

Douglass, Frederick

Du Bois, W.E.B.

E   

Ellington, Duke

Equiano, Olaudah

F   

Fauset, Jessie

Figari, Pedro

Firmin, Antenor

Fitzgerald, Ella

Fusco, Coco

G   

Gallagher, Ellen

Garvey, Marcus

Gilroy, Paul

Glissant, Édouard

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

Guerrier, Adler

H   

Hammons, David

Hayden, Palmer

Holiday, Billie

hooks, bell

Horne, Lena

Hughes, Langston

Hurston, Zora Neale

I   

J   

James, C.L.R.

Johnson, Sargent

Julien, Isaac

K   

L   

La Rose, John

Lam, Wilfredo

Lawrence, Jacob

Leger, Fernand

Lewis, Norman

Ligon, Glenn

Locke Alain

L’Ouverture Toussaint

M   

McCoy Millie and Christine

McKay, Claude

Mendieta, Ana

Modigliani, Amedeo

Moody, Ronald

Moore, Charles

Morrison, Toni

Mutu, Wangetchi

N   

O   

Ofili, Chris

Okeke, Uche

Oiticica, Helio

P   

Parks, Gordon

Pendleton, Adam

Perez Bravo, Marta Maria

Picasso, Pablo

Piper, Adrian

Piper, Keith 

Q   

R   

Ray, Man

Randolph, A. Philip

Reiss, Weinold

Robeson, Paul

Rose, Tracey

S   

Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl

Segall, Lasar

Smith, Bessie

Simpson, Lorna

T   

Thurman, Wallace

Tubman, Harriet

Ture, Kwame

Turner, Nat

U   

V   

Valentim, Rubem

Van Der Zee, James

Van Vechten, Carl

Vassa, Gustavus

W   

Walker, Alice

Walker, Kara

Warhol, Andy

Washington, Booker T.

Waters, Ethel

Welles, Orson

Wells Brown, William

Weems, Carrie Mae

Wheatley, Phillis

Wright, Richard

X   

X, Malcolm

Y   

Z