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for deep thinkers & theorists
Ordinary Notes
The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . ....
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Original Sins
The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Original Sins
The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
While our schools are being scrutinized for their alleged "woke-ness," an award-winning education scholar and former teacher shows that America’s classrooms were built to maintain...
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Picturing Black History
Photographs and Stories That Changed the World
Picturing Black History
Photographs and Stories That Changed the World
A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. "An astonishing...
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Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces...
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Race Stories
Essays on the Power of Images (Vision & Justice)
Race Stories
Essays on the Power of Images (Vision & Justice)
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,...
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Rage in Harlem
June Jordan and Architecture
Rage in Harlem
June Jordan and Architecture
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem...
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Redaction
Throughout their award-winning careers, visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet, memoirist, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of...
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Reel to Real
Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies
Reel to Real
Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies
Movies matter - that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing...
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Revolution Is Love
A Year of Black Trans Liberation
Revolution Is Love
A Year of Black Trans Liberation
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and...
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Sass
Black Women's Humor and Humanity
Sass
Black Women's Humor and Humanity
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films,...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things
How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Scattered and Fugitive Things
How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At...
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Sep 19 EVENT: Historically Black Phrases: Jeopardy Edition
Tre'vell Anderson + jarrett hill
Sold outSep 19 EVENT: Historically Black Phrases: Jeopardy Edition
Tre'vell Anderson + jarrett hill
WHO & WHAT: Join us for a special Jeopardy inspired IRL EVENT with Tre'vell Anderson + jarrett hill as we celebrate their love letter to the Black...
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Set the World on Fire
Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Set the World on Fire
Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration...
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Slaves to Fashion
Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion
Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art...
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Soul Step
Follow one girl's journey to discover the joy and history of step dancing- an ode to sisterhood and a strong mother-daughter bond, perfect for fans...
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Summer Is Here
New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a picture-perfect summer day, from sunrise to sunset.Summer is here!No...
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Superfine
Tailoring Black Style (Pre-Order, May 27 2025)
Superfine
Tailoring Black Style (Pre-Order, May 27 2025)
This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style,...
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The Afrofuturist Evolution
Creative Paths to Self-Discovery
The Afrofuturist Evolution
Creative Paths to Self-Discovery
The spaces revealed through the practice of time manipulation in Black cultures lend themselves to storytelling, a time-hopping process that integrates memory and community. Drawing...
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The Black Antifascist Tradition
Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
The Black Antifascist Tradition
Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles.At once a...
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The Black Guy Dies First
Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar
The Black Guy Dies First
Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror...
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The Black Practice of Disbelief
An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
The Black Practice of Disbelief
An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers
A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse it. In the United States, to be a...
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The Black Reparations Project
A Handbook for Racial Justice
The Black Reparations Project
A Handbook for Racial Justice
This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place...
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The Black West
A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West
A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding...
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The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of...
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