Deborah Willis

A Novel

Girlfriend on Mars

“The emotional range and depth of these stories, their clarity and deftness, is astonishing.” —Alice Munro A finalist for the Governor General’s Awards, Vanishing and Other Stories is the stunning debut short story collection from Deborah Willis. Evocative and passionately written, Vanishing brilliantly explores emotional and physical absences; the ways in which people leave and are left; and whether it’s ever possible to move on.

Vanishing and Other Stories

African-American images from the 1890s to the present

Posing beauty

Vanderzee

Kellie Jones

Richard Cándida Smith

James Christen Steward

Lowery Stokes Sims

Extending the Frozen Moment

Betye Saar

A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present

Reflections in Black

Chris Johnson

Natasha L. Logan

Black males in America

Question bridge

Hundreds of photographs documenting the everyday and the extraordinary in black lives. Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and neglected by most historians, photographic images of black culture represent a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Although so much is absent from our collective memory, Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people. Tackling all subjects with bravery and frankness, Deborah Willis’s work is a treasure to behold. This collection presents the vibrant panorama of 20th-century black culture in America and beyond, forming one story that resonates throughout the world. Divided into segments that examine in detail such subjects as children, work, art, beauty, Saturday night, and Sunday morning, the photos detail the history and the evolution of a culture. Each photograph, hand-picked by Deborah Willis, America’s leading historian of African-American photography, celebrates the world of music, art, fashion, sports, family, worship, or play. With over 500 photographs from every time period from the birth of photography to the birth of hip hop, this book is a truly joyous exhibition of black culture. From Jesse Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry, street scenes to family portraits, Black: A Celebration of a Culture is an inspiration.

A Celebration of a Culture

Black

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

The Black Civil War Soldier

Katharine Derosier Weiss

Sean Ulmer

An illustrated collection of mixed-media collages by early twentieth-century African-American artist Betye Saar that blends spiritual, political, and cultural iconography to create complex works.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards - Fiction - The Diamond Foundation Prize Nominated for the 2018 OLA Evergreen Award Energized, irreverent, novelistic stories full of longing, strange humour, and the complications of human entanglement from Governor General's Award nominee Deborah Willis The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenage girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humour, these subtle, complex stories--about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter--show how love ties us to one another and to the world. The Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully gifted storyteller whose stories enlarge our perceptions about the human capacity to love.

The Dark and Other Love Stories

David Levering Lewis

An incredible treasure trove of more than 150 illustrations detailing a small nation of African Americans prepared to make their mark on America

W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress

A Small Nation of People

Saturday Night Sunday Morning

Eileen Myles

Catherine Opie

In the tradition of Robert Frank's photographs of the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and William Eggleston's 1976 "Election Eve" series, 100 photographs offer an intimate political and personal view of one of the most public days of a nation: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the country's first black president on January 20, 2009.

Inauguration

Ellyn Toscano

Cheryl Finley

Kalia Brooks

Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, this edited volume features a range of written styles, from memoir to artists’ statements to journalistic and critical essays. The collection shows how women’s experiences of migration have been articulated through art, film, poetry and even food. This varied approach aims to aid understanding of the lived experiences of home, loss, family, belonging, isolation, borders and identity—issues salient both in experiences of migration and in the epochal times in which we find ourselves today. These are stories of trauma and fear, but also stories of the strength, perseverance, hope and even joy of women surviving their own moments of disorientation, disenfranchisement and dislocation. This collection engages with current issues in an effort to deepen understanding, encourage ongoing reflection and build a more just future. It will appeal to artists and scholars of the humanities, social sciences, and public policy, as well as general readers with an interest in women’s experiences of migration.

Women and Migration(s) II

Sandra S. Phillips

Pearl Amelia McHaney

A centennial consideration of the great author's vision as expressed in her renowned photography

Eudora Welty as Photographer

National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

"This collection of photographic portraits traces 150 years of U.S. history through the lives of well-known abolitionists, artists, scientists, writers, statesmen, entertainers, and sports figures. Drawing on the photography collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Deborah Willis celebrates the ways in which these images furthered recognition and equality in America, and even today challenge us all to uphold America's highest ideals and promises." --Book Jacket.

Let Your Motto Be Resistance

HEALTHCARE WORKERS ARE HEROES IN WAYCROSS GEORGIA 31501

In Waycross Georgia 31501

Healthcare Workers Are Heroes

Emily Bernard

Presents the life and career of Michelle Obama, focusing on her participation in the 2008 presidential election and her duties as the First Lady.

The First Lady in Photographs

Michelle Obama

Carla Williams

Showcases an array of both familiar and unknown photographic works of black women, citing the cultural and sociological histories of the past 300 years reflected in them, from images of South African studies to the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement.

A Photographic History

The Black Female Body

Deborah Willis

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