# Locke Gallery LIT **Locke Gallery LIT**, our exhibition-based book salon offers literary suggestions to enhance your experience of our exhibitions. ### Renaissance, Race, and Representation in the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art expand\_more [### Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community ](https://shop.getty.edu/products/karamu-artists-inc?srsltid=AfmBOorU0A53oLZLiBmYMs-mvRABb-CuBy2cDfqZYBPIeTieWlMl98bn) January 01, 2025 ![A woman seated in front of a window with a tree and house in the distance.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2011.32.21%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=vdqlcAEl) [### The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism ](https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/harlem-renaissance-and-transatlantic-modernism?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22662639307&gbraid=0AAAAA-g1kIbVDrghwal47wJYawkuoHLU2&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3OjGBhDYARIsADd-uX4VJEL9HY6XAzHklBg3PobDyJGYMYkK9v797uZVym7y11Rw-MPBZMYaAiXHEALw_wcB) February 27, 2024 ![Painting of a woman wearing brown. She is seated and holding a large red fruit. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2011.28.31%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=23nQkcnc) [### Alain Locke and the Visual Arts (Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African American Art) ](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247268/alain-locke-and-the-visual-arts/) September 06, 2022 ![Alain Locke looking at a sculpture of a mans face.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/9780300247268.jpeg?itok=K4lKgkwj) [### The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings ](https://rep.club/products/new-negro-aesthetic?srsltid=AfmBOoqQxnb5Bd0PpEWK80QOBWfa5PNb0zk2Wki0NAY0AdsWM4XIXCsH) January 18, 2022 ![Abstract brightly colored painting of figures dancing.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2012.09.27%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=Rn-69dne) [### Charles White: A Retrospective ](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232981/charles-white/) June 19, 2018 ![A woman sits shrouded in fabric, her hands clasped in her lap.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2011.46.29%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=IEtIJCUj) [### The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke ](/news/2018/02/new-negro-life-alain-locke) February 01, 2018 ![Alain Locke faces the viewer, his hands are before him holding something that we cannot see. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2011.54.35%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=nA_zHiD4) [### Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series ](/news/2017/02/jacob-lawrence-migration-series) February 01, 2017 ![Jacob Lawrence Migration Series Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/9781633450400.jpg?itok=8BJ-ZJ0e) [### Kerry James Marshall: Mastry ](https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847848331/) May 03, 2016 ![Grey book cover with a depiction of Marshall in the act of painting, turned toward the viewer.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2012.05.23%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=FpUNhp5s) [### Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist ](https://archive.org/details/aarondouglasafri0000doug_f9s5) January 01, 2007 ![Abstract silhouettes of 3 figures looking out over a city or industrial building.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/9780300121803-us.jpg?itok=xxRNWMDA) [### Romare Bearden: Photograhs by Frank Stewart ](https://beardenfoundation.org/product/romare-bearden/) October 01, 2004 ![A close up on Bearden's face, he looks directly at the viewer and is wearing a thick collared jacket and flat hat.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-30%20at%2012.22.26%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=GIEsMSYi) [### The Art of Romare Bearden ](https://beardenfoundation.org/product/art-romare-bearden/) September 01, 2003 ![Colorful art depicting a woman playing piano while another stands beside her.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/6.jpg?itok=19-ftfDp) [### The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. ](https://beardenfoundation.org/product/side-color-african-american-art-collection-camille-o-william-h-cosby-jr/) February 01, 2001 ![A man in a blue hat and sweater crosses his arms, facing the viewer.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/147369_1.jpeg?itok=ffxR5A0Q) [### Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas ](/news/1998/01/collecting-african-american-art-works-paper-and-canvas-0) January 01, 1998 ![Book cover featuring bright abstract painting, possibly of a landscape.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/cooleecting_aa_0.jpg?itok=tzzRDhHe) [### The Harlem Renaissance ](https://archive.org/details/harlemrenaissanc0000hask) January 01, 1996 ![A scene of many people standing in formal dress with arms raised.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/2222506._UY200_.jpg?itok=awlr5QfT) [### Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists ](https://www.mullenbooks.com/pages/books/10805/reba-and-dave-williams/alone-in-a-crowd-prints-of-the-1930s-40s-by-african-american-artists?soldItem=true&srsltid=AfmBOornKuEQiZMuFCjGAUcB9RGIOI5J7P8BgvAbaLzhFI6aYAEataUZ) January 01, 1993 ![A group of people riding the bus.](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/A1Dh7tKMAQL._UF1000%2C1000_QL80__0.jpg?itok=qNiC8p26) [### Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson ](https://www.betweenthecovers.com/pages/books/526034/richard-j-powell/homecoming-the-art-and-life-of-william-h-johnson) September 01, 1991 ![A child in a blue dress stands next to a baby in a green stroller. A hand reaches from above out of frame to touch the childs head. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/41rPVTTegYL._SL350_.jpg?itok=syZT9ViK) ### Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory expand\_more Readings related to the Spring 2025 exhibit, *Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory* [### Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies ](https://www.radiusbooks.org/all-books/p/wendel-a-white-manifest-thirteen-colonies) July 02, 2024 Published by Peabody Museum Press, distributed by Radius Books Works from Manifest: Thirteen Colonies are featured in “Free as they want to be”. This book explores the entire photo series. ![666a9240.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/666a9240.jpg?itok=2KctdUOn) [### Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory ](https://www.damianibooks.com/en/products/6208780?srsltid=AfmBOopSVWKBVG7PJ5VBg8FvdyChBOOt0eKxNR_EXZgCo7LZyJ-Zk-aI) September 01, 2022 Official catalog for the travelling collection, edited with text by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis Published and distributed by Damiani Books ![6208780_1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/6208780_1.png?h=af511bb5&itok=I53IzBWl) [### The Black Civil War Soldier, A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship ](https://nyupress.org/9781479809004/the-black-civil-war-soldier/) January 26, 2021 By Deborah Willis Published and distributed by NYU Press Deborah Willis is one of the curators of “Free as they want to be” with video and archival prints from her series Meditations on Joan Baez’s Civil War featuring in the exhibition. This book explores... ![9781479809004.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/9781479809004.jpg?h=0a57e250&itok=kpsN41qN) [### ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings ](https://en.postcart.com/libro/9788898391479) January 01, 2017 By Awam Amkpa (ed.) Published and distributed by Postcart Featuring contributions from Deborah Willis and Henry Louis Gates Jr. as well as work by Omar Victor Diop and Carrie Mae Weems, the accompanying catalog for ReSignifications (another travelling... ![i_id498_mw600_1x.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/i_id498_mw600_1x.jpg?h=d7758fba&itok=73Q_aDVa) ### Anti-Racism Resources in the Arts expand\_more [### Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation ](/news/open-letter-boston-arts-and-cultural-workers-demand-racial-equity-and-social) June 18, 2020 Read the open letter here. Published June 12, 2020 ![open letter image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-18_at_3.32.19_pm.png?itok=CScQqODp) [### All Monuments Must Fall: A Syllabus ](/news/all-monuments-must-fall-syllabus) June 15, 2020 "This is a crowd-sourced assemblage of materials relating to Confederate and other racist monuments to white supremacy; the history and theory of these monuments and monuments in general; and monument struggles worldwide." Link to syllabus on website Link... ![all monuments must fall image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-15_at_2.05.35_pm.png?itok=GolZKh3J) [### Black Lives Matter At School Coloring Book ](/news/black-lives-matter-school-coloring-book) June 15, 2020 A printable resource for educators hoping to make anti-racism accessible in schools. Downloadable PDF Link ![BLM at school coloring book](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-15_at_1.59.32_pm.png?itok=aHAN207B) [### What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? Dismantling design history 101 ](/news/what-does-it-mean-decolonize-design-dismantling-design-history-101) June 12, 2020 Essay: What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? Dismantling design history 101 Words by Anoushka Khandwala Published on June 5th, 2019 ![decolonize image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_1.44.40_pm.png?itok=RBf30xs4) [### Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon ](/news/committed-memory-art-slave-ship-icon) June 12, 2020 Book, link to purchase: Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon By Cheryl Finley Published July 24, 2018 ![committed to memory book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_3.11.48_pm.png?itok=rrfuuN1H) [### Anti-Racist Education Through the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Early Childhood Educators ](/news/anti-racist-education-through-visual-arts-lesson-plans-early-childhood-educators) June 12, 2020 Curriculum: Anti-Racist Education Through the Visual Arts: Lesson Plans for Early Childhood Educators By Janet Elder Published May 18, 2018 ![child curriculum image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.30.34_pm.png?itok=08OwWvAZ) [### Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance ](/news/embodied-avatars-genealogies-black-feminist-art-and-performance) June 12, 2020 Book, link to purchase: Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan Published November 2015 ![embodied avatars book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.47.01_pm.png?itok=O_UdAqcE) [### Toward a Monumental Black Body ](/news/toward-monumental-black-body) June 12, 2020 Essay: Toward a Monumental Black Body Text by TK Smith Source: Spring 2020 ![shoes on a wire monumental black body](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.18.58_pm_01.png?itok=lWhyUxN7) [### Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness ](/news/troubling-vision-performance-visuality-and-blackness) June 12, 2020 Book, link to purchase: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness by Nicole R. Fleetwood Published in 2010 ![troubling vision book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_3.14.55_pm.png?itok=bR9RB0ST) [### Vision & Justice Civic Curriculum by APERTURE Magazine ](/news/vision-justice-civic-curriculum-aperture-magazine) June 12, 2020 Curriculum: Vision & Justice Civic Curriculum by APERTURE Magazine Edited by Professor Sarah Lewis Published April 25, 2019 ![aperture image vision & justice](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.36.36_pm.png?itok=wK7w7Uet) [### Decolonizing Art History ](/news/decolonizing-art-history) June 12, 2020 Essay: Decolonizing Art History by Catherine Grant Dorothy Price Issue Online: 22 January 2020 ![decolonizing art history thumbnail](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_1.37.39_pm.png?itok=TUZ5mqAg) [### In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition ](/news/break-aesthetics-black-radical-tradition) June 12, 2020 Book, link to purchase: In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition By Fred Moten Published in 2003 ![in the break book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.53.43_pm.png?itok=Gyvl5rxV) [### My ‘Aha’ Moment: Recognizing Racism in Art and Art Education ](/news/my-%E2%80%98aha%E2%80%99-moment-recognizing-racism-art-and-art-education) June 12, 2020 Podcast: My ‘Aha’ Moment: Recognizing Racism in Art and Art Education Featuring Joni Boyd Acuff & Amelia Kraehe Posted June 06, 2020 ![CAA Podcast image](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.27.40_pm.png?itok=VwoqmC5A) [### Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art ](/news/radical-presence-black-performance-contemporary-art) June 12, 2020 Book, full text: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art Contributors include Valerie Cassel Oliver, Yona Backer, Naomi Beckwith, etc Published September 14, 2016 ![radical presence book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/screen_shot_2020-06-12_at_2.38.19_pm.png?itok=Ekhn-2C7) [### Anti-Racism Resources in the Arts ](/news/anti-racism-resources-arts) June 11, 2020 Book List !['anti racism in the arts', black text on white background](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/antiracism_in_the_arts_.jpg?itok=QZyprz_f) ### WOLE SOYINKA: Antiquities Across Times and Place expand\_more Internationally acclaimed dramatist, social critic, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is an avid collector of African artworks including those from his home country, Nigeria. His writings help to inform his collection and works by contemporary artists. [### Americanah ](/news/americanah) January 01, 2013 Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Edition: 2013 Anchor Books ISBN 978-0-307-45592-5 ![Americanah](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/americanah.jpg?itok=MikGOyoO) [### Purple Hibiscus ](/news/purple-hibiscus) January 01, 2012 Purple Hibiscus By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Edition: 2012 Algonquin Books ISBN 978-61620-241-5 ![Purple Hibiscus](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/purple_hibiscus.jpg?itok=-Tzt_CoM) [### Chike and the River ](/news/chike-and-river) January 01, 2011 Chike and the River By Chinua Achebe Edition: 2011 Anchor Books ISBN 978-0-307-47386-8 ![Chike and the River](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/chike_and_the_river.jpg?itok=Cit5Fqok) [### You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir ](/news/you-must-set-forth-dawn-memoir) January 01, 2007 You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir By Wole Soyinka Edition: 2007 Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN 978-0-375-75514-9 ![You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/you_must_set_forth_at_dawn-_a_memoir.jpg?itok=CkCOA-Nj) [### Half of a Yellow Sun ](/news/half-yellow-sun) January 01, 2006 Half of a Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Edition: 2006 Anchor Books ISBN 978-1-4000-9520-9 ![Half of a Yellow Sun](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/half_of_a_yellow_sun.jpg?itok=ABcoJGmW) [### Myth and the African World ](/news/myth-and-african-world) January 01, 2005 Myth and the African World By Wole Soyinka Edition: 2005 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-39834-7 ![Myth and the African World](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/myth_and_the_african_world.jpg?itok=_Z-P56iR) [### The Wrestling Match ](/news/wrestling-match) January 01, 2005 The Wrestling Match By Buchi Emecheta Edition: 2005 George Braziller Publishing ISBN 0-8067-1061-5 ![The Wrestling Match](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_wrestling_match.jpg?itok=aJjSSEg6) [### Wole Soyinka ](/news/wole-soyinka) January 01, 2005 Wole Soyinka By Biodun Jeyifo Edition: 2005 Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-0-521-11073-0 ![Wole Soyinka](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/wole_soyinka_.jpg?itok=WCVERozK) [### GraceLand ](/news/graceland) January 01, 2004 GraceLand By Chris Abani Edition: 2004 Picador iSBN 978-0-312-42528-9 ![GraceLand](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/graceland.jpg?itok=8fGy4ye-) [### Death and the King's Horseman ](/news/death-and-kings-horseman-0) January 01, 2002 Death and the King's Horseman A play by Wole Soyinka Edition reprinted in 2002 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 978-0-393-32299-6 ![Death and the King's Horseman](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/death_and_the_kings_horseman.png?itok=ndHU1swo) [### Death and the King's Horseman ](/news/death-and-kings-horseman) January 01, 2002 Death and the King's Horseman A play by Wole Soyinka Edition reprinted in 2002 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 978-0-393-32299-6 [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393322998/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_U\_PkAECbBM9CV…](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393322998/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_PkAECbBM9CVGW) ![Death and the King's Horseman](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/death_and_the_kings_horseman.png?itok=ndHU1swo) [### At Her Majesty's Request ](/news/her-majestys-request) January 01, 1999 At Her Majesty's Request By Walter Dean Meyers Edition: 1999 Scholastic Books ISBN 0-590-48670-5 ![At Her Majesty's Request](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/at_her_majestys_request.jpg?itok=Qg2Zoh1m) [### Art, Dialogue, and Outrage ](/news/art-dialogue-and-outrage) January 01, 1994 Art, Dialogue, and OutrageBy Wole Soyinka Edition: 1994 Pantheon Books ISBN 0-679-40065-6 ![Art, Dialogue, and Outrage](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/art_dialogue_and_outrage_.jpg?itok=jQ4apJRV) [### Isara: A Voyage around "Essay" ](/news/isara-voyage-around-essay) January 01, 1989 Isara: A Voyage around "Essay" By Wole Soyinka Edition: 1989 (First edition) Random House New York ISBN 0-394-54077-8 ![Isara: A Voyage around "Essay"](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/isara-_a_voyage_around_22essay22_.jpg?itok=jVV_LXg5) ### A Day Without Women expand\_more In honor of #ADayWithoutAWoman on March 8th, we offered a list of reading on intersectionality and feminism. [### The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World ](/news/hidden-face-eve-women-arab-world) February 15, 2016 The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World By Nawal El Saadawi Zed Books; New Edition edition (February 15, 2016) ISBN-10: 1783607475 ISBN-13: 978-1783607471 ![The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_hidden_face_of_eve-_women_in_the_arab_world.png?itok=EwT3tZut) [### This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color ](/news/bridge-called-my-back-writings-radical-women%C2%A0-color-cherrie-moraga-gloria) March 01, 2015 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color By Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua State University of New York Press; 4 edition (March 1, 2015) ISBN-10: 1438454384 ISBN-13: 978-1438454382 ![This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/this_bridge_called_my_back-_writings_by_radical_women_of_color.png?itok=bSB6uYqM) [### Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism ](/news/aint-i-woman-black-women-and-feminism) October 16, 2014 Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism By Bell Hooks Routledge; 2 edition (October 16, 2014) ISBN-10: 1138821519 ISBN-13: 978-1138821514 ![Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/aint_i_a_woman-_black_women_and_feminism.png?itok=jCkXvPCq) [### Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics By Bell Hooks ](/news/feminism-everybody-passionate-politics-bell-hooks) September 28, 2014 Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics By Bell Hooks Routledge; 2 edition (September 28, 2014) ISBN-10: 1138821624 ISBN-13: 978-1138821620 ![Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/feminism_is_for_everybody-_passionate_politics.png?itok=gvpA_JsI) [### Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America ](/news/sister-citizen-shame-stereotypes-and-black-women-america) April 23, 2013 Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America By Melissa Harris-Perry Yale University Press; Reprint edition (April 23, 2013) ISBN-10: 0300188188 ISBN-13: 978-0300188189 ![Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/sister_citizen-_shame_stereotypes_and_black_women_in_america.png?itok=wG5N7WJJ) [### On Intersectionality: Essential Writings ](/news/intersectionality-essential-writings) December 24, 2009 On Intersectionality: Essential Writings By Kimberlé Crenshaw The New Press (December 24, 2019) ISBN-10: 1620972700 ISBN-13: 978-1620972700 ![On Intersectionality: Essential Writings](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/on_intersectionality-_essential_writings.png?itok=shpsBrT1) [### Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment ](/news/black-feminist-thought-knowledge-consciousness-and-politics-empowerment) September 13, 2008 Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment By Patricia Hill Collins Routledge; 1 edition (September 13, 2008) ISBN-10: 0415964725 ISBN-13: 978-0415964722 ![Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/black_feminist_thought-_knowledge_consciousness_and_the_politics_of_empowerment.png?itok=BsI7oSdR) [### Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches ](/news/sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches) August 01, 2007 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches By Audre Lorde Crossing Press; Reprint edition (August 1, 2007) ISBN-10: 1580911862 ISBN-13: 978-1580911863 ![Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/sister_outsider-_essays_and_speeches.png?itok=C6jSdadu) [### Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism ](/news/black-sexual-politics-african-americans-gender-and-new-racism) January 27, 2004 Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism By Patricia Hill Collins Routledge; 1 edition (January 27, 2004) ISBN-10: 2702890865 ISBN-13: 978-0415930994 ![Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/black_sexual_politics-_african_americans_gender_and_the_new_racism.png?itok=skBqa47B) [### Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism ](/news/colonize-young-women-color-todays-feminism) January 01, 2002 Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism By Daisy Hernandez Live Girls Edition Seal Press ISBN 978-1580050678 ![Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/colonize_this-_young_women_of_color_on_todays_feminism.jpg?itok=99vxEO-X) [### Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire ](/news/dragon-ladies-asian-american-feminists-breathe-fire) July 01, 1999 Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire By Sonia Shah South End Press; First Printing edition (July 1, 1999) ISBN-10: 0896085759 ISBN-13: 978-0896085756 ![Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/dragon_ladies-_asian_american_feminists_breathe_fire.png?itok=XLXMKwos) [### Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty ](/news/killing-black-body-race-reproduction-and-meaning-liberty) December 29, 1998 Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts Vintage; 64864th edition (December 29, 1998) ISBN-10: 0679758690 ISBN-13: 978-0679758693 ![Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/killing_the_black_body-_race_reproduction_and_the_meaning_of_liberty.png?itok=kFttY19S) [### Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday ](/news/blues-legacies-and-black-feminism-gertrude-ma-rainey-bessie-smith-and-billie) January 01, 1998 Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday By Angela Davis 1st Edition Pantheon Books ISBN 978-0679450054 ![Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/blues_legacies_and_black_feminism-_gertrude_22ma22_rainey_bessie_smith_and_billie_holiday.jpg?itok=NtJi6Bzb) [### Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings ](/news/chicana-feminist-thought-basic-historical-writings) September 06, 1997 Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings By Alma M. Garcia Routledge; 1 edition (September 6, 1997) ISBN-10: 0415918014 ISBN-13: 978-0415918015 ![Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/chicana_feminist_thought-_the_basic_historical_writings.png?itok=zjzY9jrm) [### Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement ](/news/critical-race-theory-key-writings-formed-movement) May 01, 1996 Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement By Kimberlé Crenshaw The New Press (May 1, 1996) ISBN-10: 1565842715 ISBN-13: 978-1565842717 ![Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/critical_race_theory-_the_key_writings_that_formed_the_movement.png?itok=Z6cKK_sA) [### When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex ](/news/when-and-where-i-enter-impact-black-women-race-and-sex) January 01, 1984 When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex By Paula Giddings W. Morrow (1984) ISBN-10: 0688146503 ISBN-13: 978-0688146504 ![When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/when_and_where_i_enter-_the_impact_of_black_women_on_race_and_sex.png?itok=VsL5WRpE) ### Harlem: Found Ways expand\_more With the exhibition Harlem: Found Ways, the Cooper Gallery presents artistic visions and engagements specific to Harlem, New York City, in the last decades. Each artwork employs a distinct set of inquiries and innovative strategies to explore the Harlem community’s visual heritage as it grapples with the challenges of gentrification. [### Harlem: Found Ways ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674980969) August 06, 2019 Published 2019 The art and artists of Harlem: Found Ways represent the place and its people, burnishing Harlem’s luster but never attempting to smooth its rough edges. The works in the exhibition span a variety of media to explore the invention of Harlem... ![9780674980969.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/9780674980969.jpeg?itok=R_127PJi) [### The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ](/news/color-law-forgotten-history-how-our-government-segregated-america-richard) May 02, 2017 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Liveright; 1 edition (May 2, 2017) ISBN-10: 1631492853 ISBN-13: 978-1631492853 ![The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_color_of_law-_a_forgotten_history_of_how_our_government_segregated_america.png?itok=EHxiuBAX) [### The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem By Brian D. 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Goldstein Harvard University Press (February 1, 2017) ISBN-10: 0674971507 ISBN-13: 978-0674971509 ![The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_roots_of_urban_renaissance-_gentrification_and_the_struggle_over_harlem.png?itok=VLsjwpkY) [### The Harlem Charade ](/news/harlem-charade-natasha-tarpley) January 31, 2017 The Harlem Charade By Natasha Tarpley Scholastic Press (January 31, 2017) ISBN-10: 0545783879 ISBN-13: 978-0545783873 ![The Harlem Charade](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/the_harlem_charade.png?itok=SBe5mmmb) [### Glenn Ligon: Come Out. ](/news/glenn-ligon-come-out) February 01, 2015 Glenn Ligon: Come Out. 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Witkovsky Art Institute of Chicago; First Edition edition (June 26, 2012) ISBN-10: 0300181264 ISBN-13: 978-0300181265 ![Dawoud Bey - Harlem, U.S.A](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/dawoud_bey_-_harlem_u.s.a.png?itok=LifFc5N_) [### Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century ](/news/harlem-crossroads-black-writers-and-photograph-twentieth-century%C2%A0-sara-blair%C2%A0) September 16, 2007 Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century By Sara Blair Princeton University Press; 1st edition (September 16, 2007) ISBN-10: 0691130876 ISBN-13: 978-0691130873 ![Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem_crossroads-_black_writers_and_the_photograph_in_the_twentieth_century.png?itok=Mo8M6AGf) [### Harlem: Lost and Found ](/news/harlem-lost-and-found) December 03, 2001 Harlem: Lost and Found By Michael Henry Adams The Monacelli Press; 1st Edition edition (December 3, 2001) ISBN-10: 1580930700 ISBN-13: 978-1580930703 ![Harlem: Lost and Found](/sites/g/files/omnuum11446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/coopergallery/files/harlem-_lost_and_found.png?itok=YOwI8A5-)