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Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
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Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art 1965-83
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...
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Girlhood
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...
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Regular price $38.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $38.00Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain
Writings and Interviews
Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain
Writings and Interviews
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...
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Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Go Ahead in the Rain
Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
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...
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A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
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A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
When James Baldwin died in 1987 at the age of sixty-three, he left behind an extraordinary body of work. Novels, poems, film scripts, and, perhaps...
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Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $20.00Good Woman
Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
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Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
A landmark collection by one of America's major black poets, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes all of Lucille Clifton's first four published collections of...
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Diverse Designers of Architecture
Greatness
Diverse Designers of Architecture
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...
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Where the Black Designers Are
Here
Where the Black Designers Are
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...
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A Book about de la Soul
High and Rising
A Book about de la Soul
A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever. De La Soul burst...
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Holy Ghost Key
Joshua Myers's Holy Ghost Key celebrates the essential role of African music in the continuity and sustenance of African Diasporic life and culture. Myers weaves...
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Regular price $46.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $46.99Horror Noire
Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
Horror Noire
Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
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...
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Regular price $29.99Regular priceUnit price perSale price $29.99How Black Music Took Over the World
(Pre-order, April 14 2026)
How Black Music Took Over the World
(Pre-order, April 14 2026)
One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the...
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Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $50.00How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
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....
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Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the...
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Salehe Bembury
Hotly anticipated and destined to be an essential for the sneaker and streetwear hype crowd, this is the first book on and by Bembury, whose...
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Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $49.95Imagining Black Diasporas
21st-Century Art & Poetics
Imagining Black Diasporas
21st-Century Art & Poetics
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...
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Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $30.00In Open Contempt
Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space
In Open Contempt
Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space
"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...
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Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $27.00In the Break
The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
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The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted...
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Regular price $25.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $25.95In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
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...
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Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price perSale price $34.00Inhabitants of the Deep
The Blueness of Blackness
Inhabitants of the Deep
The Blueness of Blackness
In Inhabitants of the Deep, Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the "deep" in African American literature. Howard contends that the deep--a geographic formation...
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Regular price $25.95Regular priceUnit price perSale price $25.95It Came from the Closet
Queer Reflections on Horror
It Came from the Closet
Queer Reflections on Horror
Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated...
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Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
It Was the Way She Said It
Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale comes a remarkable, career-spanning collection of short fiction and essays about love,...
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J Dilla's Donuts
33 1/3
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James J Dilla Yancey crafted a set...
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James Baldwin
a Biography
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon--Go Tell It on...
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