David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, eds.

Shades of Black: Assembling the 1980s / David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce xi

Part One. Texts

Assembling the 1980s: The Deluge—and After / Stuart Hall 1

The Success and Failure of the Black Arts Movement / Rasheed Araeen 21

Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond / Keith Piper 35

Inside the Invisible: For/Getting Strategy / Lubaina Himid 41

Iconography after Identity / Kobena Mercer 49

A to Y (Entries for an Inventory of Dented "I"s) / susan pui san lok 59

On Becoming at Artist: Algerian, African, Arab, Muslim, French and Black British? A Dialogue of Visibility / Zineb Sedira in collaboration with Jawad Al-Nawab 67

CoRespondents / Young Soon Min and Allan deSouza 77

Triangular Trades: Late-Twentieth-Century "Black" Art and Transatlantic Cultural Commerce / Judith Wilson 89

Collaborative Projects: Toward a More Inclusive Practice / Dawoud Bey 103

Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism / Stan Abe 109

Choices for Black Arts in Britain over Thirty Years / Naseem Khan 115

A Case of Mistaken Identity / Gilane Tawadros 123

Color Plates 133

Part Two. The Conference

Conference Papers and Speakers 166

Dialogues / Jean Fisher 167

Part Three. Time Lines

Introduction / Adelaide Bannerman 199

Time Lines 210

Part Four. Recommended Readings

Introduction / Leon Wainwright 307

Histories and Positions 309

Visual Practices 312

Exhibitions and Displays 314

Institutions, Policies, and Reports 316

Contributors 319

Acknowledgments 327

Index 329