Kinky
10 best books like Kinky (Denise Duhamel): We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, The Fire Next Time, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Notes of a Native Son, What Belongs to You, Don't Call Us Dead, Blood Dazzler, What Is Amazing
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590560 |
"We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented...
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice,...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| Author | Michelle Alexander |
| ISBN | 1595581030 |
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 1568584636 |
Americans like to insist that they are living in a post-racial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in America have...
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
| Author | Carol Anderson |
| ISBN | 1632864126 |
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the...
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0807064319 |
“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.” - James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin was a fascinating and eloquent man, one who I would have loved to have had a conversation with....
| Author | Garth Greenwell |
| ISBN | 0374288224 |
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk,...
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its “scarlet glare fixed on the trembling...
| Author | Heather Christle |
| ISBN | 0819572772 |
Inspired by a voracious curiosity about humans and other subjects, the poems in Heather Christle's What Is Amazing describe and invent worlds in an attempt to understand through participation. The book draws upon the wisdom of foolishness and the logic of glee, while simultaneously exploring the...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566891930 |
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell
“I was...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566892996 |
Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award
Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
"Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith’s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and...
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555974074 |
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
