Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Emory Douglas -- Foreword / Ruha Benjamin -- Introduction. Why is this book needed? / Anne H. Berry -- Searching for a Black aesthetic in American graphic design / Sylvia Harris -- On Sylvia Harris: the contributions of Black designers / Anne H. Berry & Steven Heller -- Designing with complexity: An intersectional view / Jennifer Rittner -- Design practices. Chapter introduction / Kareem Collie -- An exhibition by Black designers / Dorothy Hayes -- In conversation: Darhil Crooks, Ian Spalter & Dantley Davis on practicing design while Black, with Kareem Collie -- Another brick in the wall / R. Vann Graves -- The four pillars / Jon Key -- To be just ... steward: Some life lyrics / Quinlin B. Messenger -- In conversation: Annika Hansteen-Izora on identity, community & authenticity, with Jennifer Rittner -- Design education. Chapter introduction / Anne H. Berry -- In conversation: Maurice Woods & Anne H. Berry on meeting the demands of the future -- The new visual abnormal / Colette Gaiter -- Unvisible (What's the scenario?) / Steve Jones -- The strong Black woman / Terresa Moses -- A reading list for the politics of design / Chris Rudd -- Beyond the universal: Positionality & promise in a HBCU classroom / Kaleena Sales -- Design scholarship. Chapter introduction / Lesley-Ann Noel -- Follow the golden ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a cross-cultural aesthetic for images / Audrey G. Bennett -- The pause: Reflecting on a righteous consciousness that informs our design as Afrikans / Nii Kommey Botchway -- Finding Anthony: Establishing a research trajectory / Cheryl D. Miller -- Bondage by paper: Devices of slaveholding ingenuity / Alicia Olushola Ajayi -- At the Jim Crow Museum, we use racist objects to engage hearts & heads in social justice / David Pilgrim-- Activism, advocacy & community-engaged design. Chapter introduction / Kareem Collie & Penina Laker -- Participatory & emanicipatory aspirations in Afrika / Mugendi K. M'Rithaa -- From the Black anti-Abelist diary: A tribute to my Black disabled son from a Black disabled mother / Jennifer White-Johnson -- The infrastructure of care: community design, healing & organizational post-traumatic growth / Sloan Leo -- The center in the margins: locating intimacy in multi-communities / June A. Grant -- Biophilia patterns in Black & Brown spaces / Michele Y. Washington -- In conversation: Amos Kennedy & Kareem Collie on advocating for humanity -- The preconditions to healing / Liz Ogbu -- In conversation: Raja Schaar & Jennifer Rittner on sustainability as a historically Black practice -- Afrofuturism in design. Chapter introduction / Lesly-Ann Noel -- From algorithms to Afro-rithms in Afrofuturism / Lonny Avi Brooks -- A Black-centered design ethos: engaging Afrofuturism in catalyzing more inclusive technological futures / Woodrow W. Winchester III -- What type of ancestor do you want to be? / Adah Parris -- Black secret technologies / John Jennings -- Dark matter's magic in design / Folayemi Wilson -- Journeys in design. Chapter introduction / Kelly Walters -- The Black designer's journey: Theory of change / Vocasta Lachapelle -- In pursuit of a prismatic profession/ Forest Young -- &&&: Provoking type / Schessa Garbutt -- 1 word / 1 object / Former and current design students -- Curating my way into design: A work in progress / Michell Joan Wilkinson -- My journey to design / Sabine Maxine Lopez -- Moving on: Interview with white male academic / Aisha Richards -- Design = Art ≠ Design. Chapter introduction / Kelly Walters -- In conversation: Nontsikelelo Mutiti & Kelly Walters on image making, conceptual process, and the tools of design -- In conversation: Cey Adams & Kelly Walters on design detours & artistic possibilities -- Design (is) art. If you want it to be. / Rick Griffith -- In conversation: Mimi Ọnụọha & Romi Morrison on unsettling the equivalents -- In conversation: Rhea L. Combs & Anne H. Berry on representing everyday Black lives through film & photography -- Collective, radical & liberatory spaces in design. Chapter introduction / Lesley-Ann Noel -- for colored girls who feel trapped in white institutions / Lauren Williams -- The Black student union / Terrence Moline -- Make the path by talking / Maurice Cherry -- Building BADG: The guild as a model for liberatory space / Malene Barnett -- Designer profile: Ari Melenciano / Lesley-Ann Noel & Anne H. Berry -- This is our time! adrienne maree brown on design, liberation, and transformation as told to Lesley-Ann Noel -- Guiding questions -- Glossary -- Letter to future designers / Penina Laker -- On writing & editing this book / Jennifer Rittner & Anne H. Berry -- Afterword / Eddie Opara -- Bios.