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A Little Devil in America // In Praise of Black Performance

A Little Devil in America

In Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib "I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker... Best-Sellers
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Aesthetics of Excess // The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

Aesthetics of Excess

The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment
Jillian Hernandez Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls... Art
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Ain't But a Few of Us // Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Ain't But a Few of Us

Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Willard Jenkins Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have... Autobiography & Memoir
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An Anthology of Blackness // The State of Black Design

An Anthology of Blackness

The State of Black Design
Terresa Moses An adventurous collection that examines how the design field has consistently failed to attract and support Black professionals--and how to create an anti-racist, pro-Black design... Books
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Assembling a Black Counter Culture

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

DeForrest Brown, Jr In this critical history, DeForrest Brown, Jr “makes techno Black again” by tracing the music’s origins in Detroit and beyond In Assembling a Black Counter Culture,... Art
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Betye Saar // Black Girl's Window

Betye Saar

Black Girl's Window
Betye Saar Made at a critical juncture in Betye Saar's (born 1926) career, the enigmatic assemblage Black Girl's Window (1969) was recognized by the artist as a crucial link... Art
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Black Friend // Essays

Black Friend

Essays
Ziwe A collection of personal essays that grapples with Ziwe's (mis)understanding of identity, by comedy's most iconic voice Ziwe made a name for herself staring interviewees... Books
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Black Gathering // Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

Black Gathering

Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
Sarah Jane Cervenak In Black Gathering Sarah Jane Cervenak engages with Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from interruption or... Art
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Carrie Mae Weems: // Reflections for Now

Carrie Mae Weems:

Reflections for Now
Carrie Mae Weems   Weems' writings, lectures and conversations, published here for the first time, "beautify the mess of a messy world" Widely considered to be one of... Art
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D'Angelo's Voodoo // 33 1/3

D'Angelo's Voodoo

33 1/3
Faith Pennick   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... Books
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Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions // Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions

Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
Toni Cade Bambara Edited and with a Preface by Toni Morrison, this posthumous collection of short stories, essays, and interviews offers lasting evidence of Bambara's passion, lyricism, and... Books
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Didn't We Almost Have It All // In Defense of Whitney Houston

Didn't We Almost Have It All

In Defense of Whitney Houston
Gerrick Kennedy A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passingOn February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged... Autobiography & Memoir
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DJ Screw // A Life in Slow Revolution

DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution
Lance Scott Walker DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed... Autobiography & Memoir
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First Things First // Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Pre-Order, Jan 30 2024)

First Things First

Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Pre-Order, Jan 30 2024)
Nadirah Simmons FIRST THINGS FIRST reframes the history of hip-hop but, this time, women are given credit for their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact... Autobiography & Memoir
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Flyboy 2 // The Greg Tate Reader

Flyboy 2

The Greg Tate Reader
Greg Tate Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art,... Books
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound // Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83

Freedom, Rhythm & Sound

Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
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... Art
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Girlhood

Girlhood

Melissa Febos A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self... Autobiography & Memoir
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Go Ahead in the Rain // Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Go Ahead in the Rain

Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces... Autobiography & Memoir
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Horror Noire // Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

Horror Noire

Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
Robin R. Means Coleman 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... Books
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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

Darby English Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race.... Art
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In the Break // The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition

In the Break

The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Fred Moten Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics   In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted... Books
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In the Wake // On Blackness and Being

In the Wake

On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography... Books
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James Baldwin // Collected Essays

James Baldwin

Collected Essays
James Baldwin James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and... Antiracism
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Kandis Williams

Kandis Williams

Kandis Williams The inaugural volume in a new series of books, Kandis Williams documents the Los Angeles–based artist’s exhibition A Line. Interrogating issues of race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism, her... Art
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Kara Walker // White Shadows in Blackface

Kara Walker

White Shadows in Blackface
Kara Walker Themes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to... Art
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life // The History of the Disc Jockey

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

The History of the Disc Jockey
Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a figure who has become a powerful force shaping the... Books
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Life Among the Aryans

Life Among the Aryans

Ishmael Reed America's greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed, Life Among the Aryans follows John... Books
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Liner Notes for the Revolution // The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Liner Notes for the Revolution

The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé.Daphne A. Brooks explores more than... Art
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Martine Syms: Neural Swamp // The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media (The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media)

Martine Syms: Neural Swamp

The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media (The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media)
Martine Syms New commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identityProduced for the Future Fields Commission... Art
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Martine Syms: She Mad // (Pre-Order, Apr 2, 2024)

Martine Syms: She Mad

(Pre-Order, Apr 2, 2024)
Martine Syms A source book documenting five episodes of Martine Syms's seminal fragmented television series, She Mad. Works by Martine Syms explore how mass media shapes and frames... Art
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My Pinup

My Pinup

Hilton Als Marrying the memoir and essay forms while exploring desire, Prince, and racism, Hilton Als’s My Pinup expands and delivers love In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer... Autobiography & Memoir
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Of Black Study // (Black Critique)

Of Black Study

(Black Critique)
Joshua Myers An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge  Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with... Books
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On Bts // Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity

On Bts

Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity
Lenika Cruz A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or... Books
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On Whiteness // The Racial Imaginary Institute

On Whiteness

The Racial Imaginary Institute
Claudia Rankine Writers and thinkers from Lauren Berlant to Jeff Chang explore the power structures, the "neutrality" and the frailty of whiteness Cofounded in 2017 by authors... Art
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Opinions

Opinions

Roxane Gay From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and... Books
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Optic Subwoof

Optic Subwoof

Douglas Kearney Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and... Best-Sellers
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Ordinary Notes

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . .... Antiracism
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Pop Song // Adventures in Art & Intimacy

Pop Song

Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Larissa Pham "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life,... Art
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Read Until You Understand // The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Read Until You Understand

The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Farah Jasmine Griffin A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart... Autobiography & Memoir
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Regeneration // Black Cinema, 1898–1971

Regeneration

Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Various Authors The overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement From the dawn of... Art
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Shine Bright // A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Shine Bright

A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Danyel Smith American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread... Autobiography & Memoir
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The African Gaze // Photography, Cinema and Power (Pre-Order, May 7 2024)

The African Gaze

Photography, Cinema and Power (Pre-Order, May 7 2024)
Amy Sall An accessible and popular introduction to African photography and film from the mid-twentieth century to the present day Drawing from archival imagery and documents, interviews... Art
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The Best American Food Writing 2022 // (Best American)

The Best American Food Writing 2022

(Best American)
Sohla El-Waylly A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla... Books
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The Best American Food Writing 2023 // (Best American)

The Best American Food Writing 2023

(Best American)
Mark Bittman "Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food's sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It's... Books
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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
Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris 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... Books
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The Black Shoals // Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

The Black Shoals

Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
Reparations Club In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize... Books
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The Cricket // Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69

The Cricket

Black Music in Evolution, 1968-69
Various Authors A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical... Books
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The Culture of Narcissism // American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

The Culture of Narcissism

American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
Christopher Lasch When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an... Best-Sellers
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The Dark Fantastic // Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

The Dark Fantastic

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imaginationStories provide portals into... Books
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The Devil Finds Work

The Devil Finds Work

James Baldwin "Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also... Antiracism
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The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Ishmael Reed “That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton.”Described by the New York Times as “classic activist theater” and “a cross between ‘A Christmas Carol’ and a trial at... Books
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The Hip Hop Wars // What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters

The Hip Hop Wars

What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters
Tricia Rose How hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black... Books
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The History of Sketch Comedy // A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor

The History of Sketch Comedy

A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity of their 2022 Webby Award- winning podcast and delve deeper into the world of sketch, helped... Books
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The Slave Who Loved Caviar

The Slave Who Loved Caviar

Ishmael Reed The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.... Art
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Theaster Gates // A Clay Sermon (Pre-Order, Dec 10 2023)

Theaster Gates

A Clay Sermon (Pre-Order, Dec 10 2023)
Theaster Gates The artist as activist, archivist, pedagogue, urban planner and maker: on the multifarious activities of Theaster Gates This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates... Art
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To Live and Defy in LA // How Gangsta Rap Changed America

To Live and Defy in LA

How Gangsta Rap Changed America
Felicia Angeja Viator How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis.   How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that... Books
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To Make Their Own Way in the World // The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

To Make Their Own Way in the World

The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes
Various Authors To Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes... Art
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Virgil Abloh // Figures of Speech

Virgil Abloh

Figures of Speech
Virgil Abloh The essential volume on the great fashion designer, entrepreneur and Louis Vuitton artistic director, back in print This authoritative Virgil Abloh compendium, created by the... Art
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Watch Your Language // Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

Watch Your Language

Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Terrance Hayes From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, Terrance Hayes, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry--to... Books
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We See Each Other // A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

We See Each Other

A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
Tre'vell Anderson A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.We See Each Other is a personal... Autobiography & Memoir
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