Fretz, Eric. Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography. Greenwood, 2010.This book is a biography of Jean-Michel’s life and tells how Jean-Michel became a successful artist and how New Yorks’s abstract art influenced his art. I will use this book in my research paper by including how he came from and what he saw, influenced the painting he made, and being from a place of consistent flash and things to do and how he portrayed that in his artwork. Basquiat, Jean-Michel, and Phoebe Hoban. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art. Viking, 1998.This book talks about Jean-Michel leaving school going straight to the school of art and places he could do graffiti. I will use this in my writing to build off the first book of how New York created him to be the artist he was, starting with graffiti to later becoming one of the most prominent artists of his time. Johnston, Christopher, “Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat” (2008). American Culture Studies Ph.D. Dissertations. 36.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/acs_diss/36This source talks about the racial struggles that Jean-Michel faced growing up and being a well-known artist in a mainly white field. In addition, to the racism he faced, he would display it through his art. In my essay, I will use this source to prove that he was portraying the fear that Black men face when they are in the presence of a corrupt white man in power in his artwork. Livingstone, Marco, et al. Pop Art: An International Perspective. Rizzoli, 1992.This source explains what pop art is. Pop art is a challenge to traditions of fine art and art that includes images from popular media and mass culture. I will use this source in my essay to explain that Jean-Michel was an artist that used pop art a lot—and being that it included popular media and mass culture. It will help me explain the meaning of his painting further; in the painting that I am writing about, he used popular media to help showcase the fear black men had.Hobbs, Robert Carleton, et al. 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, December 3, 2008-May 30, 2009. Rubell, 2008. This source talks about being black in a white society and being white made it easier to become recognized in the art community. Also, black people were less recognized and praised. I will use this to explain my argument further because, at the time, being black was a struggle, especially in a white society. Having a black man like Jean-Michel strive in such a field is close to a miracle; facing these adversities helped to construct Jean-Michel into the artist he became. I will use this with “Preforming Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness.”