In conjunction with the exhibition, the Hunter College Art Galleries with Hirmer Publishers are producing a comprehensive full color illustrated catalogue. Edited by Bridget R. Cooks and Sarah Watson, the publication includes a  comprehensive curatorial essay by Bridget R. Cooks PhD., with additional essays by CalvinJohn Smiley, PhD. Assistant Professor in  the Sociology department at Hunter College, CUNY and Sarah Watson, as well as artist bios written by Re’al Christian, Hunter College MA Art History/Curatorial Certificate Candidate and Ella Turenne, Visual Studies PhD. Candidate UC Irvine. 

Lead support for The Black Index is provided by The Ford Foundation with additional support by UCI Confronting Extremism Program, Getty Research Institute, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Carol and Arthur Goldberg, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Leubsdorf Fund at Hunter College, Joan Lazarus Fellowship program at Hunter College, Loren and Mike Gordon, Pamela and David Hornik, University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Applied Materials Foundation, Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative, UCI Humanities Center, Department of African American Studies, Department of Art History, The Reparations Project, the Lehman Foundation, and the UC Irvine Black Alumni Chapter. The Black Index was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities., visit calhum.org, and was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contributions by B. R. Cooks, CJ. Smiley, S. Watson Artist entries by Re’al Christian and Ella Turenne