{"product_id":"touched-by-the-mother","title":"Touched by the Mother \/\/ Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons (Pre-order, Aug 13 2026)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading historians of modern and contemporary art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollecting twenty years of incisive essays, articles, and interviews--including four published here for the first time--by art historian Huey Copeland, this book affirms the extraordinary depth of black men's cultural production and the diversity of artistic practices that explore visual black masculinity in the United States. Part history, part memoir, part critical manifesto,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouched by the Mother\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a multi-faceted look at American art and discourse of the past fifty years, a personal meditation on navigating the world as a black gay man, and a feminist perspective on the ways transatlantic slavery continues to mark African and African diasporic men. Focusing on how the black maternal shapes black masculinity, Copeland confronts the dynamics that position African-American men--after their mothers--as sites of violence, creativity, and contestation in the cultural imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichly illustrated throughout,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTouched by the Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econsiders an exciting range of assemblage, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video works by more than twenty renowned practitioners, along with interviews featuring Hilton Als, Thelma Golden, Frank B. Wilderson, III, and other influential figures in contemporary art, culture, and criticism. Works by artists including Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Arthur Jafa, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Howardena Pindell, Sun Ra, and Lorna Simpson represent modes of making and thinking that are uniquely \"touched by the mother,\" Copeland argues, moving us toward the promise of black feminist futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuey Copeland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. Copeland is an editor of the journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCTOBER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; coeditor of the award-winning essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Modernisms in the Transatlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: August 13, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 432\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780226581392\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e10 in H | 7.5 in W | 1 lb Wt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Arts \u0026amp; Hobbies, Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Huey Copeland","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Aug 13 2026) Paperback","offer_id":48066067726571,"sku":"9780226581392","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9780226581392.jpg?v=1775747368","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/touched-by-the-mother","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}