SUGARCANE AND LIGHTNING by Adrian L. Burrell

9 x 12 inches; ~120 images; 144 pages with 4-page gold insert; hardcover. Essay by Dr. Tiffany Barber. ISBN: 979-8-9889751-1-3. $50 plus shipping  “Sugarcane and Lightning is a mixtape of black life and American history from a familial perspective. This is about messages to the future, reparations, inheritance, and initiation. This is about the blackening of the world, revenge, the fugitive, movement, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and where we come from.”  —Adrian L. Burrell Adrian L. Burrell employs multiple modalities of imagery and storytelling to, in his words, “create a visual meditation on my family's untold history. Reinterpreting and archiving these histories creates a space for collective memory to challenge erasure, and explore the knowledge that Black kinship networks reveal.”  Burrell, who grew up surrounded by three generations of his family in Oakland, California, worked with an investigative genealogist while researching his family’s experiences in