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- ↑ "Claudette Holmes, Photographer". Birmingham Images. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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- ↑ James, Peter (2002). "From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 119–120. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ↑ Keen, Melanie; Elizabeth Ward, eds. (1996). Recordings: a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British Art (PDF). p. 31.
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