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Medievalpoc post series:
Eckhout’s Portraits of Brazilians (1660s)
Depictions of the Portuguese in African and Asian Art (1500s-1660s)
Guiseppe Castiglione, court painter in China (1700s)
Mongolian-European Occupation and Cultural Exchange (1000s-1400s)
The Search for Prester John
The Crusades
The Aethiopica
Dante and Virgil
Saint Maurice Masterpost
Women Warriors Masterpost
People of Color in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Art History Databases:
British Library Digitized Manuscripts Database
Library of Congress
Web Gallery of Art
The Getty
Rijksmuseum
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Art History Site Database and Search (AHDB)
The Getty Research Institute
WikiPaintings
The Bridgeman Art Library
WikiMedia Commons
Yale Center for British Art
The National Gallery
Bibliomancy:
Over 250 Free Art Books (PDF) from The Getty
Project Gutenburg
Decameron Web (Medieval)
Open Textbooks
New York Public Library
All Our Worlds: Database of Diverse SFF
We Need Diverse Books
Medievalpoc Fiction Week Masterpost
E-Books Directory
MIT Classics
Slavery and the English Country House, 2013 (Free PDF)
Black London: Life Before Emancipation, 1995 (Free PDF)
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, 2012 (Free PDF)
Local Black History: A Beginning in Devon by Lucy MacKeith (Free PDF)
West Indians Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz (Free PDF)
Open Source Academic:
Directory of Open Access Journals
Wiley Open Access
Oxford Open
Disability Studies Quarterly
New York Public Library
Project MUSE
Scitable
Springer Open
Elsevier Open Access
Open Access Library
Organized Online Learning:
Academic Earth Directory
Free Classes at MIT
Khan Academy
Curriki
Future Learn
Stanford Online
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
History Websites:
American Historical Association
Women In World History
History.com
Smithsonian History Blog
History Today
African American History
Asian American History
Native American/Indigenous History
African History (Stanford)
Link Dumps (Articles, News, Interactive):
ArtSTOR Blog: Images for Teaching and Scholarship
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Wikipedia page for Nanban Trade
Timeline of Chinese History and Dynasties
The Luttrell Psalter (Full Online Readable Text and Images)
The Gorleston Psalter (Full Online Readable Text and [some NSFW!] Images)
Color, Chromophobia and Colonialism: Some Historical Thoughts by Carolyn Purnell
"Don’t Put My Book in the African-American Section", N. K. Jemisin
Foreign Tokens: The Blackamoor Brooch on Racialicious
"That Smell": Sanitation in Victorian London on The Victorian Daily
In The Medieval Middle (Medievalist/Digital Humanities)
Norske Folkemuseum: Afrikanere I Norge
N. K. Jemisin: WisCon 38 Guest of Honor Speech
The Lost Gallery: Flickr
Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England. James Schultz
Representation of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance by Peter Erickson (Art History/Critical Race Theory) 29 p., full color plates)
Do Clothes Make the Man (or Woman?): Sex, Gender, Costume, and the Aegean Color Convention by Anne Chapin
The Black Presence in Pre-20th Century Europe: A Hidden History
Kawahara Kiega: 18th and 19th Century Japanese Artist
Wikipedia: Sexuality (in Art) In Ancient Rome
Black British History: Representations of Blacks in British Art from the 17th - 20th Century
Hiromi Goto’s WisCon 38 Guest of Honor Speech
Decentering History: Local Stories and Cultural Crossing in A Global World
The Cultures and History of the Americas: Online Exhibition (the Jay. I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress)
Library of Congress:Exploring the Early Americas
"Race Card" by Gary Taylor (invention of whiteness in Elizabeth England)
Nanban (Western Style) Armor, National Museums (Japan)
Introduction: Reconstructing the Black Image by Gordon De La Mothe
Rembrandt and the Female Nude by Erik Jan Sluitjer (Andromeda, p. 83; Chariclea, p. 158; Sleeping Negress, p. 299-301;Bathsheba and Attendant, p. 336 & 346, 350)
H.P. Lovecraft’s Madness by Phenderson Djeli Clark
How “Caucasoids” Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank: From Morton to Rushton by Leonard Lieberman (responses, dialogue and works cited included)
The Advantages of Being a White Writer by Justine Larbalesteir (YA, Historical Fiction, Publishing, Representation) (response and rebuttal by Neesha Meminger)
Loretta Ross and the Origin of “Women of Color”; Racialicious Article and Video (transcript available)
National Theatre Black Plays Archive (UK)
"Ain’t That A Shame", Justine Larbalestier
Azie Dungey’s Comedy Webseries “Ask a Slave”
Sample PowerPoint: Disney and Diversity (epilepsy warning)
What Does it Mean that Most Children’s Books are Still About White Boys? by Soraya Chemaly
Scientists Reveal the First European Faces Were Not White
Vatican Catacomb Paintings Show Female Priests
Indiana University Study: More TV, Less Self Esteem, Except for White Boys
Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn Race by Erin N. Winkler, PhD. (University of Wisconsin)
HeyReadABook:
Full Text PDF Humanities, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies,
History, Interdisciplinary History, Historiography and more
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian (History, Historiography and Cultural Studies-Film)
Injunuity: Independent Cultural Film and Animation Project (History, Historiography, Cultural and Gender Studies)
Roman Slavery and the Question of Race by Sandra Joshel
Race Mixture in the Roman Empire by Frank Tenney (American Historical Review, 1916-yes, it’s racist.)
Race: Antiquity and its Legacy by Denise Eileen McCloskey
An Archaeology of Race: Durham University- FREE Downloadable Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans
The Black King in Manuscripts
Moors in the European Renaissance
Painted Black in Europe
A View on Race in the Art World
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows
Revealing the African Presence: Multimedia & Images
Race and the Idea of the Aesthetic
Costumes Anciens et Modernes
Ancient and Modern Dress in Diverse Parts of the World
Alexander, Catherine M.S., and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare and Race,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
The routes of al-Andalus (from the UNESCO web site)
Al-Andalus Chronology and Photos
The Musical Legacy of Al-Andalus – historical maps, photos, and music showing the Great Mosque of Córdoba and related movements of people and culture over time
Al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF)
The Library of Iberian Resources Online
Africans in Yorkshire-English Genealogy
Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain by Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
List of Black/African Saints
Patricia, Countess Jellicoe, 1992, The Art of Islamic Spain, Saudi Aramco World
"Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain" (documentary film)
Mongol Elements in Western Medieval Art
The Equiano Center-The Slavery Trail
From Majesty to Mystery-Change in Meanings of Black Madonnas from the 16th to 19th Centuries
Nigra Sum, sed Formosa: The Black Saints in Catholic Tradition
The Madonna and the Cuckoo: An Exploration in European Symbolic Conceptions
The Cult of the Black Virgin
Romani in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Innovations of Caravaggio’s Fortune Teller
Jacob Jordaens and Moses’ Ethiopian Wife
Esther Schreuder
Ethiopian Christ Icon Found
Sigilum Secretum: Image of the Moor’s Head in Medieval Iconography
The Great Encounter of China and the West: Fragrant Concubine search
Black Knights, Green Knights, Knights of Color All A-Round: Race and the Round Table
Black Germany, History of the Holy Roman Black Empire
Imperator Totius Hispanae: Leon and Castile 1086-1157
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Problems of Studying the Role of Blacks in Europe
Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective
Pages from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Eckhout’s 8 Brazilian Portraits
Fifteenth Century Manuscripts: Fear of the Ottomans and help from Ethiopia
Association for Critical Race Art History
Black Magi in European Art
Print Books and Resources:
The Image of the Black in Western Art (9 Volumes!)
Race-ing Art History:Critical Reading in Race and Art History by Kimberly N. Pinder
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How The Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
Fashion: the Definitive History of Costume and Style by Susan Brown
The Moors: The Islamic West 7th-15th Centuries AD (illustrated reference) by David Nicolle
Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy by Geraldine Heng
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer, London, 1984
Orientalism by Edward Said
Red, White and Black; The Peoples of Early North America by Gary B. Nash
Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Germany and the Black Diaspora by Honeck, Klimke and Kuhlmann
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
The People of New France by Allen Greer
African Presence in Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi
Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Onyeka Nubia
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England by Kim Hall
Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion, edited by Jonathan Burton and Ania Loomba
Pre-Colonial African History:
Connah, Graham. African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Ehret, Christopher. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
Ehret, Christopher. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
McIntosh, Susan K. Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Northrup, David. Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Oliver, Roland and Anthony Atmore. Medieval Africa, 1250-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Vansina, Jan. How Societies Are Born: Governance in West-Central Africa Before 1600. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Vansina, Jan. Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Thornton, John K. The Kingdom of the Kongo: Civil Wars and Transition, 1641-1718. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Bhila, H.H.K. Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: the Manyika and the Portuguese and African Neighbors, 1575-1902. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1982.
Pikirayi, Innocent. The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline in Southern Zambezian States. New York: Altamira Press, 2001.
Horton, Mark and John Middleton. The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile People. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Pearson, Michael N. Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Lamphear, John. The Traditional History of the Jie of Uganda. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
Burstein, Stanley, ed. Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Princeton, NJ: Marcus Weiner Publishing, 1998.
Welsby, Derek A. The Kingdoms of Kush. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Welsby, Derek A. The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia. London: British Museum Press, 2002.
Hall, Richard. Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and its Invaders. HarperCollins, 1998.
Alpers, Edward A. The Indian Ocean in World History. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Pankhurst, Richard. The Ethiopians: A History. Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn abd Al-Kadir. Futuh Al-Habashah, or the conquest of Abyssinia. Edited by Sandford Arthur Strong. 1894.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭṭūṭaẗ. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Markus Wiener, 1994.
Books on Zheng He:
Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia, edited by Leo Suryadinata
Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer by Michael Yamashita
Books on Ahmad Ibn Fadlan:
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan
Ibn Fadlan’s journey to Russia: a tenth-century traveler from Baghad to the Volga River, Richard Nelson Frye
Books on Ibn Battuta:
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 by Ibn Battuta
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century by Ross E. Dunn
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 by James Rumford
Other Tumblrs:
Diasporic Roots
Rejected Princesses
Disabusing-Common-Notions
Afro-Textured-Art
Non-Western Historical Fashion
Diversity Cross Check
WritingWithColor
Ancient Peoples
Asian and Pacific Islander History
Black History Album
Of Another Fashion
The Getty Museum
The Smithsonian
The Walters Art Museum
The Brooklyn Museum
National Media Museum (UK)
Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin College)
Freer|Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian)
Historic Royal Places (UK)
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Jewish Museum (NYC)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Archive (Today’s Document)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Blanton Museum of Art