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Books

Books

  • Love Grows Everywhere Love Grows Everywhere

    Love Grows Everywhere

    $17.99
    Meet a green-fingered family whose diverse community is bursting with love in this lushly illustrated and lyrical picture book.  This beautiful and warmly-told story teaches us that love really does grow everywhere, in all shapes, forms, and sizes...
    $17.99
  • Crown - An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes Crown - An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes

    Crown - An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes

    $18.95
    The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes...
    $18.95
  • The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power

    The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power

    $65.00
    An accessible yet critical introduction to African photography and film from the mid-twentieth century to present day. The African Gaze is a comprehensive exploration of postcolonial and contemporary photography and cinema from Africa. Drawing from...
    $65.00
  • Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu

    Wangechi Mutu

    $54.95
    The first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her...
    $54.95
  • Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall

    Kerry James Marshall

    $54.95
     The most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African American experience. Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James Marshall is one of the most exciting artists working today. Critically and commercially acclaimed,...
    $54.95
  • Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power

    Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power

    $45.00
    African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to...
    $45.00
  • Amy Sherald: The World We Make Amy Sherald: The World We Make

    Amy Sherald: The World We Make

    $55.00
    This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose...
    $55.00
  • Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    $49.95
    Tender yet compelling, Johnson's portraits of herself, her friends and her relatives are touchstones of Black figuration. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson (born 1959) creates large-scale drawings of Black people...
    $49.95
  • Henry Taylor: B Side Henry Taylor: B Side

    Henry Taylor: B Side

    $60.00
    Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor’s...
    $60.00
  • Jordan Casteel: Within Reach Jordan Casteel: Within Reach

    Jordan Casteel: Within Reach

    $45.00
    In her large-scale oil paintings, New York-based artist Jordan Casteel (born 1989) takes up questions of Black subjectivity and representation by examining the gestures, spaces and forms of nonverbal communication that underpin portraiture. “There is a...
    $45.00
  • I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes

    I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes

    $18.99
    An upbeat, empowering, and important picture book! I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's...
    $18.99
  • Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

    Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

    $18.99
    An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them.  From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, comes a collection of poetry...
    $18.99
  • As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

    As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

    $50.00
    As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States, South America, as well as throughout the African...
    $50.00
  • SEEN 007 SEEN 007

    SEEN 007

    $20.00
    Seen is a journal of film, art, and visual culture, dedicated to platforming nuanced and rigorous writing by and about Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally.   Issue 007 highlights include: Ja’Tovia Gary and philosopher Dr. Joy James...
    $20.00
  • Why Fonts Matter Why Fonts Matter

    Why Fonts Matter

    $29.95
    Take a look at the experiences and associations typeface evokes. Fonts have different personalities that can create trust or mistrust, give you confidence, make things seem easier to do or make a product taste better. Understand the science behind how...
    $29.95
  • BIG by Vashti Harrison BIG by Vashti Harrison

    BIG by Vashti Harrison

    $19.99
    Winner of the Caldecott Medal! A Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor book, a National Book Award finalist, and a New York Times bestseller! This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty...
    $19.99
  • Reframing the Black Figure Reframing the Black Figure

    Reframing the Black Figure

    $19.95
    This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included in this brief introduction...
    $19.95
  • From Slave Ship to Harvard From Slave Ship to Harvard

    From Slave Ship to Harvard

    $26.95
    From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records,...
    $26.95
  • Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape

    Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape

    $18.95
    Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history...
    $18.95
  • Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic

    Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic

    $15.00
    Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to...
    $15.00
  • Art Essentials: History of African Art Art Essentials: History of African Art

    Art Essentials: History of African Art

    $18.95
    This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 75,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the...
    $18.95
  • Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference

    Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference

    $40.00
     'Race Is Everything’ explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with...
    $40.00
  • BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered

    BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered

    $35.00
    African American history has produced countless exceptional heroes, leaders, and role models. The graphic novel, BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered!, tells  the inspiring stories of 14 important Black Philadelphians, such as opera singer Marian...
    $35.00
  •  Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists  Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

    Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

    $39.95
    This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have...
    $39.95