Unmarked text. Features The Missing Physicists: How Physics Excludes Black Researchers. Also quantum control of chemistry by magnetic fields, soil microbes restoring degraded land, transcriptomic cell atlas of the fruit fly, and more. pp933-1064, • • • View More...
Unmarked. Edge wear. Featured on cover: Kehinde Wiley, Terry Winters, John Baldessari and Reports from Poland. 168p. Measures 9x11 inches.
Articles include Thinking, Mapping Painting by Carol Diehl. Baldessari's Hollywood by Eleanor Heartney; Di(i)fying the Masters by Sarah Lewis. Seeing Through Stone by Karen Wilkin. The Right Moves: Alfred Leslie in the Fifties by Richard Kalina. Not-So-Still-Life by Janet Koplos (on the sculptor Andrew Lord). Landscape Seen and Thought by Michael Duncan. Book Reviews. Sections on Poland, Montreal, Australia and Miami. Exhibition Reviews. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. The Story of Black Women in Sports, with photographs of the women discussed. 45p.
Women include Wilma Rudolph, Wyomia Tyus, Jeannette Bolden, the Howard Sisters, Carol Lewis, Pam and Paula McGee, Cheryl Miller, and others. Section on training by Robert Kersee. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Four postcards, 5x7 inches each. Artists: Julie Mehretu, Carrie Mae Weems, Margo Humphrey, and Erica Deeman.
Accompanied an exhibition (May 17-July 21, 2019) at the Berkeley Art Museum that was developed in collaboration with a UC Berkeley class. The show centered on an array of Black art.
Information about the show is on the back of each card. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Features Afro-American at the Start of a New Century with contributions from Orlando Patterson, Eugene Rivers, David Steiner, Kendall Thomas, Emily Bernard and others. Also "Thinking about 9/11" sections, with contributions from Christopher Hitchens, Tzvetan Todorov and Martin Jay. Charles Moleworth on Gerhard Richter, poetry, and more. Illustrated.
A Quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences, No. 133-134. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Third printing. Bumped edge. This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given in January 1964 under the title of What a Minority Can Do. A speech presented at a Midwest educational conference of the Young Socialist Alliance in Chicago. Four black-and-white photograph. Advertisements. 30p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. This volume celebrates the historic acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco of sixty-two paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by twenty-two contemporary African American artists.
Contributors include Timothy Anglin Burgard, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Joe Minter, and Lauren Palmor. 184p. Measures 9x10.5 inches. • • • View More...
Documents how discriminatory practices in the housing markets through most of the past century, and that continue today, have produced extreme levels of residential segregation that result in significant disparities in access to good jobs, quality education, homeownership attainment and asset accumulation between minority and non-minority households. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Bumps and bends on cover. 80p. Measures 7x10 inches.
Articles include "I Bring You General Tubman" by Earl Conrad; "The Myth of Black Matriarchy" by Robert Staples; "But Yet and Still the Cotton Gin Keeps Working" by Alice Walker; "Marriage and Fertility in Black Female Teachers" by Julia Reed; "Racism and Anti-Feminism" by Shirley Chisholm; "W. E. B. DuBois" by Lenneal J. Henderson, Jr., and more. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Some edge wear. Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Sept. 7-Dec. 28, 2003, the Newark Museum, Feb. 1-Aug. 29, 2004, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Feb. 7-Aug. 25, 2005 curated by Christa Clarke. Color Plates. 31p. Measures 9x12 inches.
Wosene Worke Kosrof (b. 1950) is an Ethiopian painter and mixed-media artist. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. These two volumes document the vital role of black sacred music in fueling and sustaining the slow march toward freedom and equal rights for the African American community in the United States.
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement (ISBN 9780271050843; 224p).
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City (ISBN 9780271075761; 344p). Black-and-white illustrations in both books. Includes CD with sampling of music from both books. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. This preeminent American slave narrative is an autobiography of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Originally published in 1845. 111p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. A few bumps on cover. Edited with an introduction by Houston A. Baker, Jr. This preeminent American slave narrative is an autobiography of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Originally published in 1845. 159p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Some rubbing on dust jacket. Tables and illustrations. 216p. Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets (Book 64).
This monograph is a late-20th century attempt to appraise critically the research literature on the black family, In essence, the author's argument is that much of what passes for reality in this area is actually myth. Includes demographical status of black families, mating, family theory, child rearing and more. Bibliography. Index. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Rubbing on back cover. Features Malcolm X. Articles by W.J.T. Mitchell, David Bradley, Spike Lee, Michael Eric Dyson, Ishmael Reed, Shelby Steele, Stephen L. Carter, Nadine Godimer and others. 190p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated. Time line. 40p. Measures 10x10.5 inches.
This biography introduces the story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to be the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American ever elected Vice President of the United States. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Scribble on front end page. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.
A four-year, intensive study by distinguished experts that draws on historical perspectives and data to examine change and continuity in the status of Black Americans at the end of the 20th century. Romare Bearden image on cover. Contributors include Robert M. Huser, Nathan Glazer, John U. Ogbu, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Dorothy P. Rice, John Hope Franklin, Nancy J. Weiss, and others. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Catalog for September 12, 2014-February 1, 2015 exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. This captivating book examines two modernist painters-Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Norman Lewis (1909-1979). Comparing Krasner, a Jewish-American woman with Lewis, an African-American man provides for a fascinating dynamic. Introductory essay delves into the challenges Krasner and Lewis faced in an artistic community dominated by white men, mainly concerning issues of identity, otherness and marginalization in postwar American abstraction. 96p• • •... View More...
Unmarked text. Bump on front cover. Symposium on the diverse society with contributions from Jane G. Pisano, Richard E. Rubenstein, H.V. Savitch and David Collins and John I. Gilderbloom and Dennis C. Golden. Also articles on term limits, financing national policy, etc. pp313-396. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. Features the Three Gorges exhibition and Wayne Miller's photographic legacy. 110p. Measures 8.5x11 inches.
Wayne Miller (1918-2013) was an American photographer known for his series of photographs The Way of Life of the Northern Negro. Active as a photographer from 1942 until 1975, he was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Small black-and-white photographs. 575p. Measures 5.5x8 inches.
Presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Features Affirmative Action. Contributors include Dana Takagi, Paul M. Igasaki, Frederick F. Y. Pang, Susan . Lee, Kent Wong, Lance T. Izumi and others. 116p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Slightly bumped corner. 20p. Five color plates, including a photograph of the artist. Bibliography. Measures 8.5x11 inches.
Catalog for June 24 through November 15, 1992 exhibition.
William T. Williams (b. 1942) is an African-American painter known for his talent in creating a synthesis between personal/cultural narrative and abstraction. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated. Advertisements. Civil Rights photographs on the cover. Includes "In Profile (Sidney Monroe)" by Sarah Schmerler, "The Collectors (Jennifer Yaffa)" by Barbara Pollock, New York City exhibitions and more. 116p. • • • View More...
