Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
10 best books like Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America (Charisse Jones): Royal Holiday, For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Nigger, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, Long Walk To Freedom, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling new novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.
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For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
| Author | Ntozake Shange |
| ISBN | 0684843269 |
A revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet about the experiences of women of color.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
| Author | Akasha Gloria Hull |
| ISBN | 0912670959 |
I have a complicated history with feminism that is probably not unique for a post-civil rights/black power movement black woman. But, all issues with the word feminism aside, I recognized myself too much in these essays to deny that whether I like it or not, I am constantly inhabiting multiple worlds....
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
| Author | Michele Wallace |
| ISBN | 1859842968 |
Originally published in 1978, this book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinist bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
| Author | Brittney Cooper |
| ISBN | 1250112575 |
An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY: The New York Public Library • Bustle • The Root • NPR
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Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace")
Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching,...
| Author | Dick Gregory |
| ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost is a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0349116024 |
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
| Author | Dorothy Roberts |
| ISBN | 0679758690 |
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black...
