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The canonical work of cultural criticism by the "profoundly influential critic" (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist...

A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films...

A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.In Black...

Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture.   From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications...

Located in Houston's Third Ward--a historic African-American neighborhood--Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural...

Out of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of "the princess of black poetry." Nikki Giovanni entered the literary...

Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as neo-soul, a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than...

The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.David Hammons is a collection of essays on the one of the most important living...

  Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem...

A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and...

A celebration of (and how to find your own) queer intersectional identity through the lens of media In Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly...

An expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today. This...

GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture. This book delves into the...

Celebrated designer, writer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller's memoir of a life in advocacy and her journey to answer the question "Where are the...

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers...

Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora This book was born out of frustration with...

"An awe-striking masterpiece of love." -- Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author "The sentences alone in In Open Contempt make it one of the most memorable...

A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studio A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is...

A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as...

From the acclaimed designer and bestselling author of Reimagining Design, a nonlinear approach to navigating design's nuances in pursuit of meaningful innovation. In Nonlinear, Kevin Bethune shows...

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race,...