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- ↑ "She Rocks! Meet Bernadette Persaud - Artist/Writer, 2012 Caribbean Hall of Fame Inductee". Guyanese Girls Rock!. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ↑ "Bernadette Persaud". Cultural Encounters. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- Visual Arts Section. The Arts Journal, Volume I Number I, containing a curatorial statement by Persaud.
- Veerle Poupeye. Caribbean Art. London: Thames and Hudson; 1998.
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