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Black futures  Cover Image Book Book

Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham.

Summary:

"Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with hackers and street artists to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful prose to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics. A generational document that captures this fast-moving generation in its own dynamic and expansive language. While shaped in the tradition of other generational statements, from The New Negro to Black Fire to Toni Morrison's landmark The Black Book, Black Futures does not have a retrospective air. It showcases the present, but points to the future. We live at a time when black culture--whether it's created by Ava DuVernay or Donald Glover, Kendrick Lamar or Cardi B, meme-makers or YouTubers--is opening our imaginations and offering new paths forward, a multi-voiced, utopian alternative to a world of walls and white nationalism. Black Futures captures this expansive vision and energy and makes it available to any reader, of any color, who wants to explore this exciting cultural moment and see the next one coming"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780399181139
  • ISBN: 039918113X
  • Physical Description: xv, 527 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : One World, [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Black lives matter -- Black futures -- Power -- Joy -- Justice -- Ownership -- Memory -- Outlook -- Black is (still) beautiful -- Legacy.
Black lives matter. Invited to the cookout / David Leggett ; Black lives matter / Alicia Garza ; A teenager with promise / Alexandra Bell ; Black lives matter / Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko ; Black survival guide / Hank Willis Thomas ; I will protect Black people / Yetunde Olagbaju ; America is Black / Tatyana Fazlalizadeh ; A call to action / LaToya Ruby Frazier -- Black futures. Today is yesterday's tomorrow / King Britt ; Now more than ever / Morgan Parker ; There are Black people in the future / Alisha Wormsley ; Black mamas bailout day / (F)empower ; In conversation / Cyree Jarelle Johnson and Carolyn Lazard with art by Alice Sheppard ; Time & memory / Rasheedah Phillips ; Love is the message, the message is death / Arthur Jafa in conversation with Tina Campt ; In conversation / Shawnee Michaelain Holloway and Tiona Nekkia McClodden ;The Black simmer / Amira Virgil ; June Jordan's vision of a Black future / Doreen St. Felix with art by Renee Gladman ; In conversation / Rodan Tekle, Sean D. Henry-Smith, and Destiny Brundidge ; Black political action / De'Ara Balenger with art by Ment Nelson ; Far beyond the stars / Ayana Jamieson with art by Lauren Halsey --
Power. These walls can talk / Wesley Morris on art by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley ; Dust II onyx / Soleil Leve Bon Mambo Elizabeth Ruth with art by Courtney Alexander ; Black to the land / Leah Penniman ; Through the portal: locating the magnificent / Zadie Smith on Deana Lawson ; Tabita Rezaire on Bogosi Sekhukhuni ; Color(ed) theory / Amanda Williams ; The library of missing datasets / Mimi Onuoha ; Firelei Baez on Koleka Putuma ; Fairview / Jackie Sibblies Drury ; Hair Nah / Momo Pixel -- Joy. The #OptimisticChallenge / Jasmine Johnson ; Black power naps / Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa ; #ThanksgivingwithBlackFamilies / Ziwe Fumudoh ; It's time to reclaim our skin / Adrienne Maree Brown with art by Shadi Al-Atallah ; Ecstatic resilience / Sable Elyse Smith with art by Suzanne Abramson, Tyahra Angus, Brennen Buckner, Christian Cody, RJ Eldridge, Melissa Bunni Elian, Kevin Hinton, Jazzmyn Hollis, Sasha Kelley, Setti Kidane, Kene Nwatu, Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr., and Vino Taylor ; Ritual for self-compassion and care / Siedeh Foxie ; Muslamic ray guns / Muna Mire ; Texas Isaiah on Ahya Simone with art by Shack Shackleford ; Regular Black / Danez Smith with art by Jonathan Lyndon Chase ; The flesh gives empathy / Jason Parham with art by Toyin Ojih Odutola and Kerry James Marshall ; Haitian Independence Day / Zoe Samudzi ; Fried pig ears, for snackin' / Kia Damon ; On times I have forced myself to dance / Hanif Abdurraqib with art by Brendan Fernandes ; Untiled (for Stewart) / Juliana Huxtable ; Independent subtexts / Devin N. Morris ; Documenting the nameplate with art by Naima Green and Azikiwe Mohammed ; Ode to shea butter / Angel Nafis with art by Nakeya Brown ; Black genius joint / Nikole Hannah-Jones --
Justice. #FreeMeekMill / Aaron Ricketts ; Unearthed / Yousra Elbagir with art by Yasmin Elnour ; 91020000 / Cameron Rowland ; #FeesMustFall / Pontsho Pilane ; Free Cyntoia Brown / Jana Augustin ; Penny Dreadful / Nina Chanel Abney ; What I know about the ocean / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with art by Nadia Huggins ; Artists statement / Kara Walker ; GirlTrek / Vanessa Garrison & T. Morgan Dixon ; Indya Moore -- Ownership. Tutu and the worth of Black art / Alexis Okeowo with art by Ben Enwonwu ; Nomads at the end of empire / Jameel Mohammed ; In conversation / Samantha Irby and Sam Bailey ; A lesson in reading / Jerome Harris ; In conversation / Rawiya Kameir and Thebe Kgositsile (Earl Sweatshirt) ; Black pain is not for profit / Rene Matic with art by BBZ London and Michael Bilsborough ; Salehe Bembury ; Toward a Black circulationism / Aria Dean ; On Discwoman / Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson ; Renee Mussai and Zanele Muholi ; Pluralism / Deborah Roberts ; Dispatch from The Colored Girls Museum / Errin Haines with art by RaFia Santana ; Invasion of privacy / Jace Clayton with art by Flo Ngala --
Memory. Sandra Bland is not alive and someone is responsible / E. Jane ; Ntozake been said that / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan with art by McArthur Binion ; In the wake: I'm SO Black I blind you / Cauleen Smith ; On and off again / Kia LaBeija ; Affirmation / Eve L. Ewing with art by Zora J. Murff ; The National Memorial for Peace and Justice -- Outlook. Are we there yet? / Kameelah Janan Rasheed ; Gayby love / Linda Villarosa with art by Jordan Casteel and Florine Demosthene ; An uneven peace / Rahawa Haile ; An unexpected peace / Hannah Giorgis ; The vision and justice project / Sarah E. Lewis with art by Carrie Mae Weems ; In conversation / Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jenna Wortham ; Appolition ; Protect Ilhan Omar / Decolonize this place ; In conversation / Kiese Laymon and Chokwe Antar Lumumba -- Black is (still) beautiful. This hair of mine / Akinola Davies, Jr., and Cyndia Harvey ; Welcome to the trans visibility era / Raquel Willis ; You next: how Black barbershops save lives / Antonio "Tone" Johnson ; #YoAmoMiPajon / Sandra Garcia ; Sheena Rose on Simone Asia ; Pop for you / Junglepussy ; A true picture of Black skin / Teju Cole ; #AfroHairMatters / Rhianna Jones with Kerrilyn Gibson ; Don't touch my hair / Solange Knowles ; Tschabalala self on Lauren Kelly ; Pyer Moss ; LaKela Brown on Nontsikelelo Mutiti --
Legacy. BlackPlanet's Black future / Andre Brock ; Martine Rose ; In conversation / Rembert Browne and Ezra Edelman ; Tourmaline ; The notion of pride / Rahim Fortune ; Mothers of the house / Thomas J. Lax with art by Leilah Weinraub ; Slave play's blackout / Jeremy O. Harris with art by Emilio Madrid ; Auntie Yvonne's coconut bread / Pierre Serrao with art by Mina Elise Echevarria ; The enduring legacy of Baltimore's Arabbers / Lawrence Burney with art by Gioncarlo Valentine ; In conversation / Simone Browne and Sadie Barnette ; Invoice / serpentwithfeet ; On the illusion of safe space / FAKA ; Native tongue / Ola Osaze ; No Sesso ; The myth of the crackhead / Donovan X. Ramsey ; The Birmingham Project / Dawoud Bey ; Dem man / Caleb Femi with art by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye ; Save our Black asses / David Leggett.
Subject: Blacks.
Arts and society > History > 21st century.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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Covington Branch 305.986 B627f 2020 (Text) 33126024104303 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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