The ALMA l LEWIS Booklist – Kilolo Luckett – Founding Executive Director & Chief Curator

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Kilolo Luckett is a Pittsburgh-based art historian and curator. With more than twenty-five years of experience in arts administration and cultural production, she is committed to elevating the voices of underrepresented visual artists, especially women, and Black and Brown artists. Luckett is Founding Executive Director and Chief Curator of ALMA | LEWIS (named after abstract artists Alma Thomas and Norman Lewis), an experimental, contemporary art platform for critical thinking, constructive dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to Black culture. 

Mar 9, 2026

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African American Environmental Thought

African American Environmental Thought

Foundations

Kimberly K. Smith

In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns.

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Algorithms of Oppression

Algorithms of Oppression

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Umoja Noble

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.

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From Libby

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

African American Children in the Antebellum North

Crystal Lynn Webster

Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster’s innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War.

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A Black Gaze

A Black Gaze

Artists Changing How We See

Tina Campt

Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see–and see Blackness in particular–anew.

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Black Skin, White Masks

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today.

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The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In “The Body Keeps the Score,” he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

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From Libby

Dark Designs and Visual Culture

Dark Designs and Visual Culture

Michele Wallace

This is a collection of writings from the 90s by Michele Wallace, the popular Black feminist scholar and journalist on film, art and politics.

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