Tiffany E. Barber is Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"In Undesirability and Her Sisters, Barber looks closely at the oeuvres of Walker, Mutu, Simmons, and Narcissister to expand the de rigueur idea of intersectionality by proposing queer, "messy," and "contested" conceptions of Black woman- and sisterhood, free from the limiting expectations that Black women perform recuperation, embody wholeness, and cohere entire communities and counter to notions of self-determination and -transformation." (Cherise Smith, University of Texas, Austin) "Tiffany Barber shows how the artists Wangechi Mutu, Narcissister, Xaviera Simmons, and Kara Walker make work that refuses normative understandings of black womanhood. In lucid writing, she demonstrates how these women rebel against an aesthetic convention organized around respectability when representing black women, a disciplinary practice that has also structured the prevailing criticism of black women's art. By upending this practice, Undesirability and her Sisters will cause a significant shift in how we interpret black women's visual work." (Roderick Ferguson, Yale University)

Tiffany E. Barber is Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"In Undesirability and Her Sisters, Barber looks closely at the oeuvres of Walker, Mutu, Simmons, and Narcissister to expand the de rigueur idea of intersectionality by proposing queer, "messy," and "contested" conceptions of Black woman- and sisterhood, free from the limiting expectations that Black women perform recuperation, embody wholeness, and cohere entire communities and counter to notions of self-determination and -transformation." (Cherise Smith, University of Texas, Austin) "Tiffany Barber shows how the artists Wangechi Mutu, Narcissister, Xaviera Simmons, and Kara Walker make work that refuses normative understandings of black womanhood. In lucid writing, she demonstrates how these women rebel against an aesthetic convention organized around respectability when representing black women, a disciplinary practice that has also structured the prevailing criticism of black women's art. By upending this practice, Undesirability and her Sisters will cause a significant shift in how we interpret black women's visual work." (Roderick Ferguson, Yale University)

Tiffany E. Barber is Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"In Undesirability and Her Sisters, Barber looks closely at the oeuvres of Walker, Mutu, Simmons, and Narcissister to expand the de rigueur idea of intersectionality by proposing queer, "messy," and "contested" conceptions of Black woman- and sisterhood, free from the limiting expectations that Black women perform recuperation, embody wholeness, and cohere entire communities and counter to notions of self-determination and -transformation." (Cherise Smith, University of Texas, Austin) "Tiffany Barber shows how the artists Wangechi Mutu, Narcissister, Xaviera Simmons, and Kara Walker make work that refuses normative understandings of black womanhood. In lucid writing, she demonstrates how these women rebel against an aesthetic convention organized around respectability when representing black women, a disciplinary practice that has also structured the prevailing criticism of black women's art. By upending this practice, Undesirability and her Sisters will cause a significant shift in how we interpret black women's visual work." (Roderick Ferguson, Yale University)