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I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
A Novel
Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness...
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In the Face of the Sun
At the height of the Civil Rights Movement amidst an America convulsed by the 1960s, a pregnant young woman and her brash, profane aunt embark...
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Kandis Williams
The inaugural volume in a new series of books, Kandis Williams documents the Los Angeles–based artist’s exhibition A Line. Interrogating issues of race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism, her...
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KAOS Theory
The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
KAOS Theory
The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
A brilliant, multi-media work about artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell. KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell tells the story of filmmaker, educator...
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L.A. Graffiti Black Book
This collection of unique works by 151 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse artistic landscape. Many...
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L.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
L.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
L.A. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often...
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L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to...
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for the homie who invites you to art openings
Noah Davis
In Detail
Designed as a companion volume to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this publication offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los...
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for the friend with the wildest thoughts
Noah Davis
The Journal
Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....
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Oct 26 EVENT: KAOS Theory
Ben Caldwell & Robeson Taj Frazier w/ Essence Harden
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Ben Caldwell & Robeson Taj Frazier w/ Essence Harden
WHO & WHAT: An IRL EVENT with pioneering Los Angeles artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell, co-author and USC professor & filmmaker Roberson Taj Frazier,...
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One-Shot Harry
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips's riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer...
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Only the Wicked
(Pre-Order, Aug 20 2024)
Only the Wicked
(Pre-Order, Aug 20 2024)
Black private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date--and chases answers deep into America's shameful past. Half a century ago, Old...
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Our Shouts Echo
(Pre-Order, Aug 27 2024)
Our Shouts Echo
(Pre-Order, Aug 27 2024)
An unforgettably powerful coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old LA transplant whose plans to build a doomsday shelter in her backyard collide with an unexpected summer...
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$16.99Sale price From $16.99Parable of the Sower
When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to...
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Parable of the Sower & Talents
(Box Set)
Parable of the Sower & Talents
(Box Set)
A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set...
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Policing Los Angeles
Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
Policing Los Angeles
Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
When the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupted in violent protest in August 1965, the uprising drew strength from decades of pent-up frustration with employment...
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Regarding Paul R. Williams
A Photographer's View
Sold outRegarding Paul R. Williams
A Photographer's View
Janna Ireland, an award-winning photographer, presents a collection of stunning, intimate black-and-white photographs of the work of Paul Revere Williams, who was known as “Hollywood’s...
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Reynaldo Rivera
Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City
Reynaldo Rivera
Provisional Notes for a Disappeared City
Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars....
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Slumberland
The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in...
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South Central Dreams
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
South Central Dreams
Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central...
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South Central Is Home
Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles
South Central Is Home
Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles
South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depiction obscures the significant Latina/o...
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for the local art historian
South of Pico
African American Artist in Los Angeles in the 1960's and 1970's In South of Pico, Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during...
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The Black Kids
Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy...
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The Book of Rhyme & Reason: Hip-Hop 1994-1997
The ultimate backstage pass: a photographic inside look at the making of the pioneering hip hop documentary Rhyme & Reason In the mid-1990s, documentary filmmaker Peter...
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