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93 Books in the
ART / African American & Black
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Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
by
Steven Underwood
Elizabeth Catlett
by
Elizabeth Catlett
Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade
by
Angela N. Carroll
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
by
Monica L. Miller
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
by
Imani Perry
Set Me Free: The Good News of God’s Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays)
by
Lecrae Moore
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
by
Irvin Weathersby Jr.
Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
by
Akili Tommasino
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
by
Sarah Roberts
Black, Queer, and Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers
by
Jon Key
The 1619 Project a Visual Experience
by
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton
by
Virginia Hamilton
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
by
James Baldwin
Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
by
Kevin Young
Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970
by
Gordon Parks
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
by
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
by
Hilton Als
The Black Joy Project
by
Kleaver Cruz
Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and Beyond
by
Bethonie Butler
The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families
by
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer
Pieces of a Man
by
Jamel Shabazz
Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates
by
Maria Fee
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
by
Zaria Ware
Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
by
Christine Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
by
Ben Okri
I Always Knew: A Memoir
by
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
by
George McCalman
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration
by
Spike Lee
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue
by
Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men
by
Harold Green III
Kehinde Wiley A Portrait of a Young Gentleman
by
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery
by
Kehinde Wiley
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
by
Harold Green III
Afro-Atlantic Histories
by
Adriano Pedrosa and Tomas Toledo
Spike
by
Spike Lee
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
by
Gary Jackson, Len Lawson, and Cynthia Manick
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by
Winfred Rembert with Erin I. Kelly
Crank Shaped Notes
by
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Black: A Celebration of a Culture
by
Deborah Willis
Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara’s Practices of Liberation
by
Thabiti Lewis
Brave. Black. First. 100 Postcards
by
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Kehinde Wiley Trickster
by
Kehinde Wiley
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation
by
Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions
by
Wole Soyinka
Roy Decarava Light Break
by
Roy DeCarava
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
by
Antwaun Sargent
Roy Decarava The Sound I Saw
by
Roy DeCarava
Basquiat-isms
by
Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Romare Bearden Reader
by
Robert G. O’Meally
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
by
Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite
The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
by
Clarence Major
Hollywood Black
by
Donald Bogle
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
by
Wil Haygood
We Inspire Me: Cultivate Your Creative Crew to Work, Play, and Make (Book for Creatives, Book for Artists, Creative Guide)
by
Andrea Pippins
Charles White: A Retrospective
by
Sarah Kelly Oehler and Esther Adler
My Soul Has Grown Deep
by
Cheryl Finley
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
by
Beverly Bond
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by
Fred Moten
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach
by
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
4 Pages 16 Bars: Raise It Up!
by
Jiba Molei Anderson
4 Pages 16 Bars: Doin’ Our Own Thang! (Volume 3)
by
Jiba Molei Anderson
Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden
by
Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
by
Kellie Jones
Your Black Friend
by
Ben Passmore
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have
by
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
by
Janice N. Harrington
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
by
Stuart Cosgrove
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book
by
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
by
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Brotherman Dictator of Discipline: Revelation (BOOK ONE #1)
by
Guy Sims
Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection
by
John Jennings and Stacey Robinson
4 Pages 16 Bars: The Symphony (Volume 1)
by
Jiba Molei Anderson
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
by
Kalamu ya Salaam
The Notebooks
by
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Kehinde Wiley The World Stage Haiti
by
Kehinde Wiley
4 Pages 16 Bars: Sequential Graffiti
by
Jiba Molei Anderson
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s the Time
by
Dieter Buchhart, Franklin Sirmans, Olivier Berggruen, Glenn Obrien, and Christian Campbell
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
by
Connie H. Choi, Eugenie Tsai, Insoo Cho, Elizabeth Armstrong, and Richard Aste
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii
by
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Kehinde Wiley The World Stage Israel
by
Kehinde Wiley
Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980
by
Kellie Jones
Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History
by
Cheryl Finley, Laurence A. Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
by
Kellie Jones
Jean-Michel Basquiat
by
Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
by
Percival Everett
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation
by
Michael D. Harris
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
by
Nell Irvin Painter
Faith Ringgold: A View From The Studio
by
Faith Ringgold and Curlee Raven Holton
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
by
Lisa E. Farrington
Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
by
Grant Hill
Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South
by
Kinshasha Conwill and Arthur C. Danto
When Harlem Was In Vogue
by
David Levering Lewis
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
by
bell hooks