Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting: Real Talk for When There's Nowhere to Go But Up
10 best books like Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting: Real Talk for When There's Nowhere to Go But Up (Terrie Williams): Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (PB), When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America, The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans, Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name: My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer, A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend, The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (PB)
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
In this book, Patricia Hill Collins explores the question of why racism has persisted in the United States despite the elimination of legal discrimination. Specifically, she focuses on how popular culture and media replicate, resist, and reproduce old and new forms of discrimination through their...
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
| Author | Paula J. Giddings |
| ISBN | 0688146503 |
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended...
| Author | Charisse Jones |
| ISBN | 0060090553 |
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or...
The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans
| Author | Kathy Russell |
| ISBN | 0385471610 |
This book was really, really important for me, on a personal level, as a light-skinned Black person. Still, I was disappointed because I felt like the authors did a great job of portraying the struggles of dark-skinned Black people, and a horrible job of examining the complications of being light-skinned....
Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name: My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer
| Author | Mo Davis |
| ISBN | 0062397524 |
Be inspired to reach for your dreams!
At the age of thirteen, Mo'ne Davis became the first female pitcher to win a game in the Little League World Series and the first Little Leaguer to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. A month later she earned a place in the National Baseball Hall...
| Author | Michelle Y. Green |
| ISBN | 0803726619 |
Mamie Johnson looks the batter in the eye. Sizes him up for a curve- or a fastball. Stretches her 5'2" frame. And pops a surefire, windup, coming-right-at-ya pitch smack dab over the plate. One that lets the batter know that this "peanut of a girl" means business. Fueled by her passion for the game and buoyed...
| Author | Gerda Lerner |
| ISBN | 0679743146 |
In this documentary history, black women themselves tell not only what it's like to be oppressed —as blacks and as women—but also how they have managed to survive. Here are stories of women who built a school "on a garbage dump"; of the little-known but vitally important networks of women's organizations...
| Author | Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina |
| ISBN | 0060510730 |
Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North versus the slaves who lived in the South.
Both accomplished...
| Author | Susan E. Goodman |
| ISBN | 0802737390 |
In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only.
Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made...
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
Praise for Microaggressions in Everyday Life "In a very constructive way, Dr. Sue provides time-tested psychological suggestions to make our society free of microaggressions. It is a brilliant resource and ideal teaching tool for all those who wish to alter the forces that promote pain for people."
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Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
| Author | Marita Golden |
| ISBN | 1400077362 |
“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking...
Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts
| Author | Ayana Byrd |
| ISBN | 0399531637 |
This book is a compilation of essays written by black women about black women. Writers, doctors, inmates, rappers, video vixens, college students and women from so many other walks of life, offer up their personal stories. The essays pretty much revolve around issues of identity and sexuality and...
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir
| Author | Jennifer Baszile |
| ISBN | 1416543279 |
"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s."At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white classmate, Jennifer Baszile was humiliated to hear her classmate...
Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
| Author | Lawrence Otis Graham |
| ISBN | 0060984309 |
Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every...
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896087336 |
When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery was originally released in 1994, it won critical praise and solidified bell hooks’ reputation as one of the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Today, the book is considered a classic in African American and feminist circles.
In...
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
| Author | Tricia Rose |
| ISBN | 0312423721 |
In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies, or exotic sexual playthings remain unchanged. For...
Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women From Dating Out
| Author | Karyn Langhorne Folan |
| ISBN | 1439154759 |
In Don’t Bring Home a White Boy, writer Karyn Langhorne Folan debunks the myths about interracial relationships. Drawing on real-life testimonials, she boldly tackles this difficult subject with warmth, humor, and understanding, as she explores stereotypes of black female sexuality and white...
Girl, Get Your Money Straight: A Sister's Guide to Healing Your Bank Account and Funding Your Dreams in 7 Simple Steps
| Author | Glinda Bridgforth |
| ISBN | 0767904885 |
If you’re tired of feeling powerless over your finances and are ready to start funding your dreams, then come on girl–it’s time to get your money straight! Author and financial expert Glinda Bridgforth knows that healthy money management is rarely just about dollars–it’s about getting...
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
| Author | Eugene Robinson |
| ISBN | 0385526547 |
Instead of one black America, today there are four.
“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from Disintegration
The African...
Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless
| Author | Cora Daniels |
| ISBN | 0385516436 |
ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw
1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2: a quarter...
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
| Author | Bakari Kitwana |
| ISBN | 0465029795 |
The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's...
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama
| Author | Sophia Nelson |
| ISBN | 1935618946 |
Stereotypes aren't funny when they follow you everywhere.
This is the rallying cry that author Sophia A. Nelson wants all of America to grapple with when it comes to the way we view and treat black women.
Black Woman Redefined was inspired in part by what Nelson calls "open season on...
52 Mondays: The One Year Path to Outrageous Success & Lifelong Happiness
"If You Knew What Can Happen In The Next 52 Mondays It Would Take Your Breath Away"
Stop and think about it. If you had started something new and worked on it every week since one year ago, what might you have been able to accomplish? Twelve months, after all, is plenty of time to start accruing success....
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
| Author | Chris Crass |
| ISBN | 1604866543 |
Organized into four sections, this collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. These essays and interviews present powerful lessons for transformative organizing. It offers...
