Dash, Julie - Catalyst #2 (1987)

Julie Dash (Contributor).
Pearl Cleage (Editor). 
Catalyst #2.

Catalyst, 1987.
Staple-bound softcover. 
100 pages including covers. 

Very Good.
Light edgewear and soiling to covers. 
Small split to bottom spine of wrappers. 

Cover photography of David Murray by Andy Freeburg. 

Atlanta-based literary and culture magazine with an emphasis on African-American expression. An early (quite likely the first) appearance of Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust which had a theatrical release in 1991. 

Interview with Spike Lee. 

Spike Lee and the Afro-American Aesthetic by Donald P. Stone. 

"Whose P___y Is This?" A Feminist Comment by Bell Hooks: An essay on Lee's film "She's Gotta Have it". 
Selling it to the Movies by Vern E. Smith. 
"Daughters of the Dust": About the Script ( + screenplay) by Julie Dash.
Celeste Miller. 

Zaron Burnett.
Robbie McCauley. 
Joe Grimsley. 
Bill Bagwell. 
Lamar Alford. 

Jalaine Halsall. 
Rebecca Ranson. 
Mari Evans. 
Nola Perez. 
Hya Laurel. 
Jennifer Griffith. 
Martha Parker. 
Beverly Sloan. 

Peggy Willis Lyles. 
Barbara Merchant. 
Ronder Thomas Young. 
Jeanne. R. Towns. 
Jada Keye. 
Lee R. Haven. 
Ron Rash.

Sybil Leah-White. 
Harryette Mullen. 
Gilbert Hines. 
Jo-Ellen Jones. 
Mary Gannon. 
Paul Schumacher. 
Akbar Imhotep. 
Melissa Fidwell. 
Lee White. 
Michael Hanson. 
I. Wesley Jones. 
Nome Poem. 
June Akers Seese.
Anicia Lane. 
Amalia Amaki. 
Woodie King, Jr.