Celebrate Black History with these 2022 Staff Picks!

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Published by DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Vivian Crockett.

A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries

PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de São Paulo

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/7/2021
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ISBN 9781636810027 TRADE
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Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style

Published by Reel Art Press.
Edited with text by Jason Jules. Art direction and design by Graham Marsh.

How Black culture reinvented and subverted the Ivy Look

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color / 100 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/21/2021
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ISBN 9781909526822 TRADE
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Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

Published by D.A.P./Tate.
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

PUBLISHER
D.A.P./Tate

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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ISBN 9781942884170 TRADE
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Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden.

What’s new, now and next from contemporary Black artists

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 9/22/2020
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ISBN 9781942884590 TRADE
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Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Edited by Liz Munsell, Greg Tate. Text by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, Carlo McCormick.

How hip-hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 5/5/2020
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ISBN 9780878468713 TRADE
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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling.

A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel Basquiat

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 334 color.

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Pub Date 11/30/2010
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ISBN 9783775725934 TRADE
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Faith Ringgold: Politics / Power

Published by Weiss Publications.
Text by Faith Ringgold, Michele Wallace, Kirsten Weiss.

Ringgold's most formative and influential political works are gathered in this beautifully designed clothbound volume

PUBLISHER
Weiss Publications

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 104 pgs / 47 color.

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Pub Date 3/22/2022
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ISBN 9783948318130 TRADE
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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Published by DelMonico Books/High Museum of Art.
By Katherine Jentleson. Foreword by Rand Suffolk. Text by Katherine Jentleson, Ruchi Mital, Destinee Filmore. Poem by Vanessa German.

An unprecedented look at Nellie Mae Rowe’s art as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South

PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books/High Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11 in. / 276 pgs / 283 color / 11 bw.

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Pub Date 11/30/2021
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ISBN 9781636810287 TRADE
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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Edited with text by Sarah Hermanson Meister. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Glenn D. Lowry. Text by Nicole Fleetwood, Bryan Stevenson.

Gordon Parks’ ethically complex depictions of crime in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with previously unseen photographs

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 60 color / 10 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/16/2020
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ISBN 9783958296961 TRADE
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Lee Friedlander: Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

Published by Eakins Press Foundation.
Text by Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins.

Early work from Lee Friedlander capturing a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement

PUBLISHER
Eakins Press Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 8.5 in. / 88 pgs / 58 bw.

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Pub Date 9/15/2015
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ISBN 9780871300713 TRADE
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Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass

Published by DelMonico Books/MAG/Tang/Isaac Julien Studio.
Edited by Isaac Julien and Cora Gilroy-Ware with Vladimir Seput. Introduction by Cora Gilroy-Ware. Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. Text by John G. Hanhardt, Jonathan P. Binstock, Isaac Julien, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Deborah Willis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Paul Gilroy, Vron Ware, Susan Solt, Kass Banning and Warren Crichlow. Interview by Jennifer A. González.

A visual and literary meditation juxtaposing Isaac Julien’s artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy

PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books/MAG/Tang/Isaac Julien Studio

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / 166 color / 15 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/1/2022
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ISBN 9781636810393 TRADE
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

Published by Redstone Press.
Introduction by Jacqueline Francis, Stephen G. Hall. Foreword by David Adjaye. Contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America

PUBLISHER
Redstone Press

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color / 54 bw.

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Pub Date 10/29/2019
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ISBN 9781942884538 TRADE
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Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982–84

Photography by Sophie Bramly

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Stuart Baker. Foreword by Bill Adler. Text by Fab 5 Freddy, Arthur Baker, D.ST, Slick Rick, Kool Lady Blue, Afrika Islam, Rahiem from Furious 5, Adam Ad Rock” Horovitz, Run and DMC, Lisa Lee, Lady Pink.

The birth of hip hop in New York: rare images of the bands, the MCs and DJs, the artists and the fans, from Afrika Bambaataa and Run-DMC to Keith Haring and the Rock Steady Crew

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 50 color / 200 bw.

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Pub Date 1/4/2022
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ISBN 9781916359826 TRADE
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Sue Kwon: RAP IS RISEN

New York Photographs 1988–2008

Published by Testify Books.
Foreword by Harry Allen. Introduction by Jeff Mao.

“Sue Kwon’s undeniable hip-hop résumé should be bowed down to! Sue is definitely one of the greats in visually capturing a culture.” –Posdnuos of De La Soul

PUBLISHER
Testify Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 100 bw.

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Pub Date 11/16/2021
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ISBN 9781732062917 TRADE
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Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson. Preface by Robin D. G. Kelley. Text by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Adrienne Brown, Sekou Cooke, Milton S. F. Curry, J. Yolande Daniels, Charles L. Davis II, Felecia Davis, Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Aruna D’Souza, Ifeoma Ebo, Tonya M. Foster, Mario Gooden, Dianne Harris, Walter J. Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, Justin Garrett Moore, David Naguib Pellow, Jennifer Newsom, Audrey Petty, Christina Sharpe, Carla Shedd, Roberta Washington, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Amanda Williams. Photographic portfolio by David Hartt.

How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studies

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 185 color.

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Pub Date 3/2/2021
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ISBN 9781633451148 TRADE
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In Search of African American Space

Redressing Racism

Published by Lars Müller Publishers.
Edited with text by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone. Foreword by Tina M. Campt. Text by Sara Caples, Radiclani Clytus, Yolande Daniels, Ann Holder, Everardo Jefferson, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Marisa Williamson.

Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between the African diaspora and social space in America

PUBLISHER
Lars Müller Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color.

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Pub Date 9/29/2020
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ISBN 9783037786338 TRADE
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The Soul of a Nation Reader

Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960–1980

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Allie Biswas. Afterword by Zoé Whitley.

A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition

PUBLISHER
Gregory R. Miller & Co.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.25 x 9 in. / 628 pgs / 35 color.

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Pub Date 6/1/2021
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ISBN 9781941366325 TRADE
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Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts

Published by Badlands Unlimited.
By Aruna D'Souza.

"An exploratory case study in institutional racism as it has manifested in the New York City art world” —Brooklyn Rail

PUBLISHER
Badlands Unlimited

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.

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Pub Date 5/22/2018
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ISBN 9781943263141 TRADE
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall. Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young.

Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 77 color / 25 bw.

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Pub Date 2/28/2017
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ISBN 9781633450400 TRADE
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Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?

A Reader

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances. Introduction by Stuart Comer. Text by Adrienne Edwards, Mario Gooden, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam Pendleton, Lynne Tillman.

In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton’s MoMA show, the artist behind “Black Dada” fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protest

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 235 bw.

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Pub Date 10/12/2021
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ISBN 9781633451100 TRADE
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