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Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne. Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, 2019. 

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Eric Gardner. Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture, 2015. 

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John W. Ittmann. Dox Thrash: an African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, 2001.

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