An Anthology of Blackness examines the intersection of Black identity and practice, probing why the design field has failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black professionals, and how Black designers can create an anti-racist design industry. Contributing authors and creators demonstrate how to develop a pro-Black design practice of inclusivity, including Black representation in designed media, anti-racist pedagogy, and radical self-care. Through autoethnography, lived experience, scholarship, and applied research, these contributors share proven methods for creating an anti-racist and inclusive design practice.

Black design industry + organizations. -An introduction to Black design industry + organizations / Terresa Moses and Omari Souza. - The ontology of Black design / S. Alfonso Williams. - Stewardship and the survival of Black design communities / Terrence Moline. - Shattering spaces of othering: building a creative culture of creativity, Blackness, and Brown power / Antoinette D. Carroll, supported by Maya Aduba Williams. - So, you want to solve the diversity problem in design / Jacinda N. Walker. - Why asking for a list won't solve racial disparities / Melanie Walby. - Ain't I a woman / Omari Souza. - Using video games to champion justice and expand imaginations of superheroes / Jules Porter. - Designing a Black future / John Brown VI. - Black design pedagogy. - An introduction to Black design pedagogy / Terresa Moses and Omari Souza. - Black student perceptions of design courses at an elite private university / Lesley-Ann Noel. - Design's ledger of white supremacy: constructing a critical race pedagogy to shape design futures / Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon. - African design: origins and migration / Jillian M. Harris. - #BlackHistoryMatters / Stacey Robinson. - The movement imprinted / Terresa Moses. - Using exhibition design to support political engagement, active learning, and civic participation / Anne H. Berry and Kelly Walters. - Black design activism. - An introduction to Black design activism / Terresa Moses and Omari Souza -- Getting to the root: an exhibition catalog on natural hair / Jazmine Beatty. - Paving the way: Black designers then and now / Nichole Burroughs. - Amplifying the Black voice through design / Terresa Moses. - Peace of mind / Kprecia Ambers. - PANTHERS VOTE! A studio project exposing past voter suppression methods to a collegiate population that has been historically disenfranchised / Tracey L. Moore. - Corrections, cures, and spoils: how vote by mail information and service design disenfranchised Black voters in the 2020 US election cycle / Asher Kolieboi. - Amplifying accessibility and abolishing ableism: designing to embolden Black disability visual culture / Jennifer White-Johnson.