Abeng
9 best books like Abeng (Michelle Cliff): Call Down the Hawk, Quicksand, A Small Place, Myal, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961, Crossing the Mangrove, الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل, The Weary Blues
| Author | Maggie Stiefvater |
| ISBN | 1338188321 |
The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.
And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To...
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0141181273 |
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527075 |
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
| Author | Erna Brodber |
| ISBN | 0901241865 |
Jamaican-born novelist and sociologist Erna Brodber describes Myal as “an exploration of the links between the way of life forged by the people of two points of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and the Afro-Jamaicans.” Operating on many literary levels—thematically, linguistically,...
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
| Author | Lynda Blackmon Lowery |
| ISBN | 0803741235 |
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...
| Author | Larry Dane Brimner |
| ISBN | 1629795860 |
On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines...
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0385476337 |
In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au...
الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل
لكي يُخرج اميل حبيبي الشكل العربي للرواية، امتص رحيق ألف ليلة، وشملته روح الجاحظ الساخرة حينا، المتفاكهة حينا آخر، وصدر في روايته عن طريقة كتابة الرسائل...
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately,...
