Representing the Black female subject in western art - Nelson, Charmaine (Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora, 2010)

The color of stone: sculpting the black female subject in nineteenth-century America - Nelson, Charmaine (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Neoclassical Sculpture - Nelson, Charmaine A. (RACAR, 2020)