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        Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

        Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

        Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

        A Series of Open Questions

        Edited by Jacqueline Francis and Jeanne Gerrity

        ISBN: 9783956796593

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
        Hugh Hayden

        Hugh Hayden

        Hugh Hayden

        American Vernacular

        Edited by Sarah J. Montross

        ISBN: 9780262047999

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 13, 2023

        The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature.
        Donald Rodney

        Donald Rodney

        Donald Rodney

        Autoicon

        by Richard Birkett

        ISBN: 9781846382574

        Publisher: Afterall Books

        Pub Date: June 6, 2023

        An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney's seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000).
        A Black Gaze

        A Black Gaze

        A Black Gaze

        Artists Changing How We See

        by Tina M. Campt

        ISBN: 9780262546058

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 21, 2023

        Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see—and see Blackness in particular—anew.
        Kara Walker

        Kara Walker

        Kara Walker

        Edited by Vanina Géré

        ISBN: 9780262544474

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 22, 2022

        Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.
        In the Black Fantastic

        In the Black Fantastic

        In the Black Fantastic

        by Ekow Eshun

        ISBN: 9780262047258

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 6, 2022

        A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.
        Mirror Reflecting Darkly

        Mirror Reflecting Darkly

        Mirror Reflecting Darkly

        The Rita Keegan Archive

        Edited by Rita Keegan, Matthew Harle and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski

        ISBN: 9781912685912

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: October 26, 2021

        Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan: from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist.
        Carrie Mae Weems

        Carrie Mae Weems

        Carrie Mae Weems

        Edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

        With Christine Garnier

        ISBN: 9780262538596

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 1, 2021

        Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art.
        Love and Ethnology

        Love and Ethnology

        Love and Ethnology

        The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)

        Edited by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke

        ISBN: 9783956795039

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: May 26, 2020

        Essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements on the German writer Hubert Fichte's fascination with Afro-diasporic arts and religions.
        Glenn Ligon

        Glenn Ligon

        Glenn Ligon

        Untitled (I Am a Man)

        by Gregg Bordowitz

        ISBN: 9781846381928

        Publisher: Afterall Books

        Pub Date: April 13, 2018

        An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.
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