Product Description: White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker’s boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history...read more

Product Description: American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor...read more

Product Description: Places for the Spirit is a stunning collection of over 80 documentary photographs of African American folk gardens — and their creators — in the Deep South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina)...read more

An exploration of the relationship between black and Jewish intellectual communities through the life and writings of James Baldwin focuses on Baldwin's opinion of such Jewish literary luminaries as Bernard Malamud, his relationships with various Jewish publishers, and his associations with black intellectuals.

Product Description: This comprehensive monograph illuminates Wilcox's work in collaged movie and television footage and handmade animation--mythical romantic mini-narratives--with essays from Johanna Burton and New Yorker critic Hilton Als. Wilcox shoots in Super 8, both original footage and preexisting film from a video monitor, transfers his work to video for editing, and then to 16 millimeter for presentation...read more

Product Description: Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists of her generation, devoted to the beauty of image-making, innovatively juxtaposing the figure and gesture with text and narrative. This rich monograph, created to accompany the major retrospective of Simpson's work touring in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York (among other destinations) beginning this spring, includes insightful essays by curator and critic Okwui Enwezor and New Yorker writer Hilton Als, and a conversation with the artist, Isaac Julien, and Thelma Golden, along with 126 reproductions from Simpson's formally elegant, subtly provocative body of work-including her recent work...read more

Product Description: In one of An-My Lan-My L''s photographs of American Marines training for Iraq in the Mojave desert, a group of barrels is marked with the phrase "Do Not Shoot." Obviously, the photographer didn't heed this warning, and the result is the most recent, timely series inof images in this compelling first monograph...read more

An illustrated collection of the most significant writings on the Oscar- and Grammy-winning hip-hop star covers such topics as his controversial activities and belief systems, achievements as a white star in a predominantly black genre, relationships with fellow performers, and film career. Original.

Product Description: With Contributions by Dorothy Allison, John Berger, Mark Doty, Mary Gordon, bell hooks, Alfred Kazin, August Wilson, and othersFor the contributors to Drawing Us In, visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A portrait of the song 'Strange Fruit,' written by Abel Meeropol and describing a racial lynching in the South, which was recorded by legendary singer Billie Holiday in 1939, examines the influence of the song on the growth of the Civil Rights Movement and traces the lives of singer Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence (view table of contents)

Product Description: A fitting tribute to the legacy of Leigh Bowery (1959-1994), fashion designer and expert tailor, night-club sensation, art object, trained pianist, and aspiring pop-star. 100 color photos & 100 duotones. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A series of portraits analyzes the role that sexual and racial identity have played in the lives and work of the writer's subjects

A tie-in to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art explores Andy Warhol's impact on the fashion industry and the art world as a whole throughout the years, complete with photographs of his department store displays, his silkscreen portraits, and more.