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Black Caesars & Foxy Cleopatras
A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Black Caesars & Foxy Cleopatras
A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films...
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Carrie Mae Weems
Reflections for Now
Carrie Mae Weems
Reflections for Now
Weems' writings, lectures and conversations, published here for the first time, "beautify the mess of a messy world" Widely considered to be one of...
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Collective Creative Actions
Project Row Houses at 25
Collective Creative Actions
Project Row Houses at 25
Located in Houston's Third Ward--a historic African-American neighborhood--Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural...
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D'Angelo's Voodoo
33 1/3
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...
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Dawoud Bey
Elegy
Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem...
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Devotion (RE:)
A beautifully illustrated book-length publication on the contemporary artist and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Garrett Bradley, whose quietly devastating work blurs the space between fact and...
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Glenn 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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Horror 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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Imagining Black Diasporas
21st-Century Art & Poetics (Pre-Order, Dec 10 2024)
Imagining Black Diasporas
21st-Century Art & Poetics (Pre-Order, Dec 10 2024)
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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Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
(Pre-Order, March 4 2025)
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
(Pre-Order, March 4 2025)
A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studio A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is...
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Martine Syms:
She Mad
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...
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Mortevivum
Photography and the Politics of the Visual
Mortevivum
Photography and the Politics of the Visual
A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as...
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Nonlinear
Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction (Pre-Order, Feb 4 2025)
Nonlinear
Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction (Pre-Order, Feb 4 2025)
From the acclaimed designer and bestselling author of Reimagining Design, a nonlinear approach to navigating design's nuances in pursuit of meaningful innovation. In Nonlinear, Kevin Bethune shows...
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Race Stories
Essays on the Power of Images (Vision & Justice) (Pre-Order, Dec 17 2024)
Race Stories
Essays on the Power of Images (Vision & Justice) (Pre-Order, Dec 17 2024)
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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Revolution in 35mm
Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
Revolution in 35mm
Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse...
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
(Pre-Order, Oct 1 2024)
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
(Pre-Order, Oct 1 2024)
Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and...
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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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The New Brownies' Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
The New Brownies' Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence. The New Brownies' Book reimagines the very first...
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The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism (Pre-Order, Oct 5 2024)
The Theater of Refusal
Black Art and Mainstream Criticism (Pre-Order, Oct 5 2024)
Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a...
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks
An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks
An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his...
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Unlicensed:
Bootlegging as Creative Practice
Unlicensed:
Bootlegging as Creative Practice
In-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world Over the last few decades, the term "bootlegging"--a practice once relegated to smugglers...
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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
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...
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With Bloom Upon Them & Also with Blood
A Horror Miscellany
With Bloom Upon Them & Also with Blood
A Horror Miscellany
The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The...
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Wrong Is Not My Name
Notes on (Black) Art
Wrong Is Not My Name
Notes on (Black) Art
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation...
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