There is a Reading Room set up at Gallery Kayafas as part of my exhibition there called Family Pictures. These are the texts I included:
- Going to Meet the Man (stories) by James Baldwin
- Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, essays by Hilton Als, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and James Allen
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror by Equal Justice Initiative
- Black Misery by Langston Hughes
- The Inaugural Address 2009 by Barack Obama
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester by Joseph Boskin
- Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy by James S. Hirsch
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Citizen: An American Lyricby Claudia Rankine
- Violence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Žižek
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- Free at Last a History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggleby Sara Bullard
- On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Other Works by Frederick Douglass
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