Black futures
Kimberly Drew (Editor), Jenna Wortham (Editor)
This book 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 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. This is 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, this book does not have a retrospective air. It showcases the present, but it 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. This book 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. -- Adapted from publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2020
First edition
One World, New York, 2020