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Antagonistic cooperation
From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Robert G. O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another.
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Committed to memory
How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it expo...
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Creating connections
A lavishly illustrated publication which explores an exceptionally diverse array of work by self-taught artists with wide-ranging backgrounds and motivations.Creating Connections features over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and watercolors from the Rosenthal Collection of work by self-taught...
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Gateways
A dynamic, personal, and poignant collection of over 90 works from Eric Key’s extensive collection of art by American artists of African descent, spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the twenty-first century.Since he started collecting in the 1990s, Eric Key’s intent has always been to help preserv...
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J walking through the alphabet
A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton’s experiments with text and image. It’s here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a multidisciplinary artist between the late...
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Mapping malcolm
Mapping Malcolm interrogates the limits and possibilities of the archive as a purveyor of community development, the Black diaspora, and the state through a lens of the Black radical tradition.
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The african desperate
The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set ...
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The notebooks
A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooksBrooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as ...
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The other blacklist
Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.
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The racial unfamiliar
John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received...
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The souths in her
Nicole M. Morris Johnson analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Dianne McIntyre, Maryse Condé, and Ntozake Shange, among others, showing how unexpected encounters with unfamiliar traditions and creative visions of m...
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Too much midnight
Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora.
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Vivian browne
A long overdue volume which re-establishes Vivian Browne as an important and dynamic American artist with an expressive hand and expansive world view.Vivian Browne’s (1929-1993) varied career spanned more than three decades, from her early portraits and landscapes in the late 1950s and early ‘60s...
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