-"Jegede (art, Miami U., Ohio) profiles 66 black artists from the African Diaspora who have worked and lived in the US, and in many continued to do so. They work in a diverse array of media, he says, and manifest an even more diverse range of ideas, and have many profound contributions to world art and enriched the creative fabric of American culture, but who have attracted little attention either from scholars or from exhibition and gallery professionals. Eight pages of color plates illustrate, along with monochrome photographs of many of the artists." —Reference & Research Book News

-"Encyclopedia of African American Artists provides a solid overview of this important facet of the American art world and has a place in most academic libraries that support art programs as well as in large public libraries." —Booklist