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Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson is on sabbatical Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Ex-Nurse. RomePrize Fellow; Black diaspora art, colonialism, medicine. Bk: Black Bodies, White Gold @DukePress. @ArtHxProject @Princeton; member @AmAntiquarian

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Book Cover for: Ars Orientalis, V2: The Arts of Islam and the East, 1957, Freer Gallery of Art

Ars Orientalis, V2: The Arts of Islam and the East, 1957

Freer Gallery of Art
Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson is on sabbaticalDr Anna Arabindan-Kesson is on sabbatical

So happy to be included in this incredible collective of authors for a special issue of #ArsOrientalis on the Graphic Arts of Asia. It is edited by my wonderful friend @BrownUniversity Prof Holly Shaffer. Check out the essays here: https://asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/ars-orientalis-51/ https://twitter.com/NatAsianArt/status/1489662298209857547

Paperback, 2012

$62.95Member price:$56.65 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: British Art and the East India Company, Geoff Quilley

British Art and the East India Company

Geoff Quilley
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I learnt so much from this review that puts Geoff Quilley's new book British Art and the East India Company and mine in conversation @ecoomasaru - thank you! https://t.co/XyQXrHz2dZ

Hardcover, 2020

$170.00Member price:$170.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, Deborah A. Thomas

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

Deborah A. Thomas
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@AnnetteJosephG @jmjafrx I keep returning to Deborah Thomas' last chapter in Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation and artists like Lubaina Himid, Brook Andrew, Shiraz Bayjoo, Ingrid Pollard - as well as everything mentioned above!

Paperback, 2019

$29.95Member price:$28.45 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World, Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

Anna Arabindan-Kesson
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New review of #BlackBodiesWhiteGold in @AAH_Journal! Thank you Sarah! She describes my book with its temporal and spatial shifts as having "restless ambitions" - I actually can't think of a better way to describe myself! @DukePress https://t.co/llB4HEnBRI

Hardcover, 2021

$107.95Member price:$102.55 + Free shipping5% off