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Jean-Michel Basquiat The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally... ArtBooks
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
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Gilles Peterson This is a unique collection of cover artwork of revolutionary jazz music between 1965-83. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of... ArtBooks
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Funeral Diva
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I Could Not Believe It
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I'm So Fine
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JAM
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Jamel Shabazz
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Juke Joint
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Jean-Michel Basquiat This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences,... ArtAutobiography & Memoir
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Legacy to Liberation
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Fred Ho Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the... Book ClubsBooks
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Moonwalking
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Moonwalking
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On a Woman's Madness
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Tender
Carla Williams Tender is the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years,... ArtBooks
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The Culture
Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
James Baldwin The Evidence of Things Not Seen, award-winning author James Baldwin's searing 1985 indictment of the nation's racial stagnation, is contextualized anew by an introduction from New... BooksHistory
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The High Desert
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James Spooner A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man's immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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The Light on Halsey Street
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The Notebooks
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Jean-Michel Basquiat A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooksBrooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure... ArtBooks
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The Sisters Are Alright
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Second Edition)
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Those Bones Are Not My Child
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Toni Cade Bambara This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over... BooksClassics
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Yearning
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bell hooks For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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