Volume 3

Documenting Blackness at the Smithsonian NMAAHC

Jason Fox & Mia Mask

What terms of, and access to, the means of representation situate Black visualities within and against larger historical structures of power?

Introduction: Documenting Blackness at the NMAAHC
Jason Fox & Mia Mask
Conspiracies and Caretakers: Making Homes for African American Home Movies
Ina Archer
Throwing Punches: The Athletic Aesthetics of Kevin Jerome Everson’s Filmmaking
Jeff Scheible
Independents and Institutions: A Conversation with Stanley Nelson
Jason Fox
Documentary Strain, Black Artists, and the Afrofuture: Terence Nance’s The Triptych
Elizabeth Reich
Documentary Says Amen! St. Clair Bourne and Black Liberation Theology
Jon-Sesrie Goff
Discerning the Call: A Let the Church Say Amen! Corner
Josslyn Luckett, Jon-Sesrie Goff, Reverend Alisha Gordon, and Sam Pollard
Ghosts and the Machine: When Documenting Past Black Life Haunts its Present
Franklin Cason Jr.
On The Collection: Flash(es) of the Spirit: Images of Black Life as a Spiritual Encounter
Michele Prettyman
On The Collection: Debbie Allen – dancer
Jessica Lynne
On The Collection: #OscarsSoWhite and the Friends of the Black Oscar Nominees Award
Lisa Kennedy
On The Collection: Ways of Seeing African American Moving Images
Rhea L. Combs

Volume 3 Editors
Jason Fox & Mia Mask

Publishing Director
Christopher Cekay Allen

Managing Editors
Jenny Miller
Colin Beckett

Assistant Editors
Zoe Meng Jiang
Louisa Nyman

Web Editor
Xiaoya Yuan

Design and Art Direction
Christopher Cekay Allen
Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Bartosz Gawdzik

Front End Development
Lukas Steinman

Interactive Architecture
Danny Bowman

Graphic Design
Bartosz Gawdzik

Cover Image Illustration
Daniel Schrempf

Editorial Board
Tarik Elseewi
Benj Gerdes
Faye Ginsburg
Jennifer Hayashida
Alexandra Juhasz
Jonathan Kahana
Alisa Lebow
Martin Lucas
Scott MacDonald
Ivone Margulies
Pooja Rangan
Tess Takahashi

Advisory Board
Josetxo Cerdán
Cíntia Gil
Carlos Gutiérrez
Laliv Melamed
Rachael Rakes
Lynne Sachs
Shireen Seno
Pegi Vail
Genevieve Yue

Logo Design
Bartosz Gawdzik
Michał Dudek

Generous Support Provided by
Ford Foundation

Volume 3 Sponsors
The MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute at Skidmore College

Published By
UnionDocs Center For Documentary Art