Cultural Literature

Delving behind the scenes of Black Dada pioneer Adam Pendleton's multilayered, genre-redefining painting practiceThe work of American artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) blurs the distinctions among painting, drawing and photography through a process...

The Bureaucrat is the life story of a man shaped not by privilege, but by responsibility, discipline and the steady support of people who chose to invest in his future. Raised under the care and guidance of his uncle, Dr. Alex Glover-Quartey developed a...

Writings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading historians of modern and contemporary art. Collecting twenty years of incisive essays, articles, and interviews--including four published here for the first...

The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American EnglishFew words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as offensive, fierce debates continue over the use of...

From the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of MLKThe Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South, but award-winning and New York Times-bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues...

Explores race, class, and identity in relationship to wealth inequality in America.From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J. explores the relationship between race and class in the United States, with an emphasis on wealth as a prism to interpret...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...

Conveys the experiential realities of those racialized as Black and, in turn, demonstrates that biological distinctions are only surface-level cues by which a racialized system assigned real lived experiences."I have Black friends" is a common defense...

The definitive history of go-go music and cultureGo-go is the heart and soul of Washington, DC's African American culture--a source of resilience for the community and a way to celebrate Black lives. As the soundtrack of the District since the mid-1970s,...

How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spirit Color does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard...

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized. Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began...

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized. Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began...