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Banks, P.  podcast (2019)


Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “High Culture, Black Culture: Strategic Assimilation and Cultural Steering in Museum Patronage.” Journal of Consumer Culture.


Banks, Patricia A. 2019. New York. Routledge.


Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “Cultural Justice and Collecting: Challenging the Underrecognition of African American Artists,” in Guillaume D. Johnson, Sonya A. Grier, Kevin Thomas, and Anthony Kwame Harrison (Ed.). London: Palgrave.


Banks, P. Consume This! blog post (2019)


Banks, Patricia A. 2019. Scholars Strategy Network.

Banks, Patricia A. 2019. “Black Artists and Elite Taste Culture.” Contexts.

Banks, Patricia A. 2019. Invited review of Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica S. Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog and Elisa Reis. Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ). Cultural Sociology.


Banks, Patricia A. 2018. “The Rise of Africa in the Contemporary Auction Market: Myth or Reality?” Poetics.

Banks, Patricia A. 2018. “Money, Museums, and Memory: Cultural Patronage by Black Voluntary Associations.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.


Banks, Patricia A. 2017. Black Past.

Banks, Patricia A. 2017. C&. May 25


Banks, Patricia A. 2017. Cultural Sociology 11 (1): 97-112.


Banks, Patricia A. 2016. Invited review of Susan E. Cahan. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Ethnic and Racial Studies.