Vision & Justice Book Series

Co-edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis, the series commences with three titles:

• Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images, the first posthumous collection of writings by cultural historian, curator, and writer Maurice Berger (1956–2020)

• The first-ever monograph of Doug Harris’ work, which created a new visual vocabulary for the organizing efforts of the Civil Rights Movement

• A survey of self-taught photographer Coreen Simpson’s work exploring the intersections of style, beauty, and representation

Co-editors

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis | Founder, Vision and Justice; John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Leigh Raiford | Author, leading scholar of Black visual culture, and professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley

Deborah Willis | MacArthur award-winning artist, historian, and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

Advisory Board

Courtney R. Baker, Dawoud Bey, LeRonn Brooks, Jelani Cobb, Teju Cole, Huey Copeland, Vinson Cunningham, Awol Erizku, Cheryl Finley,  Nicole Fleetwood, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael B. Gillespie, Rujeko Hockley, Tyler Mitchell, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Richard Powell, Antwaun Sargent, Ming Smith, Salamishah Tillet, Carrie Mae Weems