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Access Is Capture
How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
Access Is Capture
How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will...
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Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
Pringle's fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for...
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$28.00Sale price From $17.00Brown and Gay in LA
The Lives of Immigrant Sons
SaleBrown and Gay in LA
The Lives of Immigrant Sons
The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of...
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City of Angels
A Book about L.A. Style
City of Angels
A Book about L.A. Style
A vibrant photographic portrait of Los Angeles' dynamic population by one of the city's foremost stylists American photographer and costume designer Jasmine Benjamin is a...
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Concentrate
Poems
Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza GriffithsIn her virtuosic debut, Courtney Faye Taylor explores the under-told history of the...
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Don't Wait
Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won
Don't Wait
Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won
Follows the stories of three young women activists of color fighting for some of today's most pressing movements of defunding the police, environmental justice, and...
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Fiona & Jane
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak...
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Go Crenshaw
An Afrocentric Guide to the Crenshaw District
Go Crenshaw
An Afrocentric Guide to the Crenshaw District
Go Crenshaw: An Afrocentric Guide to the Crenshaw District was written to fill an important niche for people who want to experience South LA's Crenshaw District...
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KAOS Theory
The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
KAOS Theory
The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
A brilliant, multi-media work about artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell. KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell tells the story of filmmaker, educator...
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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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L.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
Sold outL.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
L.A. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often...
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for south central & beyond
Lauren Halsey
Lauren Halsey documents Halsey's debut exhibition with the David Kordansky gallery and features texts by Elleza Kelley and Lynell George, with a photo essay by...
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for south central & beyond
Lauren Halsey
Emajendat
Inspired by the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood that the artist and her family have lived in for generations, Halsey's expansive practice teems with the...
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Made in L.A. 2025
(Pre-Order, Oct 28 2025)
Made in L.A. 2025
(Pre-Order, Oct 28 2025)
Animated by its inimitable residents and cacophonous disorder, Los Angeles is brought to life through interventions by 27 emerging and under-recognized local artists The...
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for creative minds
Noah Davis
This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community....
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for the homie who invites you to art openings
Noah Davis
In Detail
Designed as a companion volume to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this publication offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los...
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for the friend with the wildest thoughts
Noah Davis
The Journal
Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....
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Oct 26 EVENT: KAOS Theory
Ben Caldwell & Robeson Taj Frazier w/ Essence Harden
Sold outOct 26 EVENT: KAOS Theory
Ben Caldwell & Robeson Taj Frazier w/ Essence Harden
WHO & WHAT: An IRL EVENT with pioneering Los Angeles artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell, co-author and USC professor & filmmaker Roberson Taj Frazier,...
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Our Shouts Echo
An unforgettably powerful coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old LA transplant whose plans to build a doomsday shelter in her backyard collide with an unexpected summer...
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Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People
A Celebration of Black Bookstores
A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces...
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Ron Finley
The Gangsta Gardener: Breath(e), Toward Climate and Social Justice
Ron Finley
The Gangsta Gardener: Breath(e), Toward Climate and Social Justice
The first book on beloved Los Angeles community organizer and urban gardener Ron Finley, known as the “Gangsta Gardener”Ron Finley is a visionary designer, horticulturalist...
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South Central Dreams
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
South Central Dreams
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South...
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The Book of Rhyme & Reason: Hip-Hop 1994-1997
The ultimate backstage pass: a photographic inside look at the making of the pioneering hip hop documentary Rhyme & Reason In the mid-1990s, documentary filmmaker Peter...
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The Dark Tree
Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
The Dark Tree
Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to...
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