She is the author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past and coauthor (with Lisa Mintz Messinger) of African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margo Natalie Crawford is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture in the department of English at Indiana University. She is the author of the forthcoming books Rewriting Blackness: Beyond Authenticity and Hybridity and Mother to Son: Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki Madhubuti.