organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri ; essays by Erin Dziedzic and Melissa Messina, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Lilly Wei ; conversations by Nanette Carter, Allison Glenn, Gia M. Hamilton, Lauren Haynes, Sandra Jackson- Dumont, Michelle Perron, Alice Thorson, and Kathryn Wat ; with a foreword by Barbara O'Brien and Susan Fisher Sterling
curators: Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring senior curator, and Vivian Crockett, curator, with Ian Wallace, curatorial assistant ; editor: Sarah Stephenson
edited by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, PhD ; with contributions by Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD; Erin J. Gilbert; Beverly Guy-Sheftall, PhD; Antwaun Sargent; and Franklin Sirmans ; a foreword by Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD ; and an interview between Deborah Roberts and Valerie Cassel Oliver