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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and...
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THE SHADOW SYSTEM: MASS INCARCERATION AND THE AMERICAN FAMILY
In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young father tries to maintain a relationship with...
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BRAINWASHED: CHALLENGING THE MYTH OF BLACK INFERIORITY
“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a...
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YOU CAN'T TOUCH MY HAIR: AND OTHER THINGS I STILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN
Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of “the black friend,” as if she...
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THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in...
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MINDFUL OF RACE: TRANSFORMING RACISM FROM THE INSIDE OUT
"Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing...
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PLAYING IN THE DARK: WHITENESS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago...
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I'M JUDGING YOU: THE DO-BETTER MANUAL
In this hilarious book of essays, comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger Luvvie Ajayi inspires us to good behavior, one sharp and funny side-eye at a time.The go-to source for bracingly smart takes on pop culture at her enormously...
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THE FIRE THIS TIME: A NEW GENERATION SPEAKS ABOUT RACE
In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My Nephew,” which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Addressing his fifteen-year-old...
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ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY: COMBAT RACISM, CHANGE THE WORLD...
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on...
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CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK: ON POWER, POLITICS, AND LEADERSHIP
Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the...
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VEXY THING: ON GENDER AND LIBERATION
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem—“patriarchy”—is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target...
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THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION
For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted—relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog that...
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SISTERS IN THE WILDERNESS: THE CHALLENGE OF WOMANIST GOD-TALK
This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It is widely regarded as a classic text in the field. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the...
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SHE BEGAT THIS: 20 YEARS OF THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL
Released in 1998, Lauryn Hill’s first solo album is often cited by music critics as one of the most important recordings in modern history. Artists from Beyoncé to Nicki Minaj to Janelle Monáe have claimed it as an inspiration, and...
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THE WOMEN
A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conceived as a series of portraits analyzing the role that sexual and...
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DRESSED IN DREAMS: A BLACK GIRL'S LOVE LETTER TO THE POWER OF FASHION
"A perfect time to look at the ethos of black hair in America ― and the perfect person to do it is Tanisha Ford" ―Changing America"Everyone from the shopaholic to the clearance rack queen will see themselves in [Ford's] pages."...
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CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN FILMMAKERS AND THE ART OF RESISTANCE ( BLACK PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM )
Christina N. Baker’s Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance is the first book-length analysis of representations of Black femaleness in the feature films of Black women filmmakers. These filmmakers resist dominant ideologies about Black womanhood, deliberately and creatively reconstructing meanings...
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INTRODUCING WOMANIST THEOLOGY
Introducing Womanist Theology demonstrates how theology by women of color is firmly rooted in their varied life experiences. By participating fully in the construction of theology instead of simply learning theology from others, black women are able to analyze church...
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THE BLACK WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY READER
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and instead argue for the specificity of black cultural experiences...
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