This zine from The Black Aesthetic features fragments of 3 essays from their publication The Black Aesthetic Season II:

• Dialectics of Black Space by Leila Weefur
• Scratch and Sniff, Taste and See by Jamal Batts
• Hysteric Drapetomania by Ra Malika Imhotep

3 Fragments is a limit edition produced for the 2018 New York Art Book Fair by Wolfman Books. 

The Black Aesthetic is a curatorial collective based in Oakland, whose mission is to curate a collective understanding of Black visual culture. 

Staple-bound, 14 pages, 5 inches x 7.5 inches, Wolfman Books, 2018. 

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