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  • Art as Sanctuary

    Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

    by Michael D. Harris ...
    Series series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal, and cultural celebration. Harris offers an alternative framework to the Duboisian philosophy of double consciousness, pushing the boundaries of Africana aesthetic analysis by exploring the cultural ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Ordinary Notes

    by Christina Sharpe ...
    A finalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionNamed a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and NobleThe critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, “Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangeme... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Art on My Mind

    Visual Politics

    by bell hooks ...
    The canonical work of cultural criticism by the “profoundly influential critic” (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Thomas“Sharp and persuasive.” —The New York Times Book Review on the original publication of Art on My MindIn Art on My Mind, “one of the country’s most influential feminist thinkers“ (Artforum) offers . ... Read more

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  • Black Women Writers at Work

    Edited by Claudia Tate ...
    “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • I Want to Be Ready

    Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

    by Danielle Goldman ...
    "Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

    by Kevin Quashie ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Black Art

    A Cultural History

    by Richard J. Powell ...
    Series series World of Art
    This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Theorizing Sound Writing

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Contemporary African American Literature

    The Living Canon

    Edited by Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

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  • South of Pico

    African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

    by Kellie Jones ...
    Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and ArtforumIn South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Toni Morrison

    Writing the Moral Imagination

    by Valerie Smith ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
    This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels.Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American ... Read more

    $27.00 USD