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Basquiat
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally...
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Be Holding
A Poem
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward...
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for elder emos and baby punks alike
Black Punk Now
A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks--featuring both new voices and those...
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Carla Williams
Tender
Tender is the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years,...
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Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
Chuco Punk
Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
An immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas. Punk rock is known for its daring subversion,...
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Dancehall
The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Dancehall
The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and...
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Discomania
(Pre-Order, Feb 4 2025)
Discomania
(Pre-Order, Feb 4 2025)
A young woman discovers that dancers at a local discotheque are being driven to acts of insane violence. "The place was full of swarming, pugnacious,...
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
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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Funeral Diva
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...
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Haiti
Bruce Gilden
Dramatic, confrontational images of a country enduring inconceivable upheaval and disaster Bruce Gilden first traveled to Haiti in 1984 for the famous Mardi Gras festivities....
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Homegirls & Handgrenades
Winner of the American Book Award, a classic of the Black Arts Movement brought back to life in a refreshed edition"A lion in literature's forest. When...
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Hotter Than July
Vinyl LP pressing. Following the nearly all-instrumental 'detour album, ' Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants, Hotter Than July was a return to classic...
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I Could Not Believe It
The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear
I Could Not Believe It
The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear
A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA's most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean...
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I'm So Fine
A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
Sold outI'm So Fine
A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Hybrid Genre. Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'M SO FINE:...
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Jamel Shabazz
Albums
Photo albums from the archives of the iconic chronicler of New York's 1980s rap, hip-hop and Black culture The influential Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz has...
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Juke Joint
Photographs
In this famed collection of full-color photographs, Birney Imes reveals a previously unexplored and now nearly vanished domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi...
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Just Above Midtown
Changing Spaces
Just Above Midtown
Changing Spaces
An archival dive with fresh interpretations of the legendary New York gallery and cultural laboratory that catalyzed collaboration among Black artists and their counterparts...
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King Pleasure
Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Pleasure
Jean-Michel Basquiat
This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences,...
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L.A. Interchanges
A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir
L.A. Interchanges
A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir
"A Powerful Memoir and Documentary History" By combining the intimacy of a personal memoir with the rigor of documentary history, Lydia Otero weaves together a...
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Legacy to Liberation
Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America
Legacy to Liberation
Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America
Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the...
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Miss Major Speaks
Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Miss Major Speaks
Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous...
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Moonwalking
For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this middle-grade novel-in-verse follows two boys in 1980s Brooklyn as they become friends for a season. Punk...
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Moonwalking
(Paperback)
For fans of Jason Reynolds and Jacqueline Woodson, this middle-grade novel-in-verse follows two boys in 1980s Brooklyn as they become friends for a season. Punk...
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On a Woman's Madness
A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman’s Madness tells the story of Noenka,...
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