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Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

10 best books like Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (Bettye Collier-Thomas): In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156028638
The stories are fantastic, almost too much so. Each story plunges you into a fully realized world of characters and circumstances, the kind of world that could propel an entire novel. And Walker is so good at making these character breathe for us, so good at making their concerns and lives vital to the...
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156028646
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear...
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
AuthorAkasha Gloria Hull
ISBN0912670959
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....
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
AuthorBarbara Smith
ISBN0813527538
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminists and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
AuthorKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
ISBN1608468550
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on...
Black Looks: Race and Representation
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0896084337
Wide ranging and full of insight, Black Looks critiques the many ways American pop culture exploits, oppresses, and dehumanizes Black people through stereotyped representations. Across twelve short essays hooks examines how pop music, advertising, literature, and, especially, film work in...
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0896086283
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience....
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
AuthorYōko Ogawa
ISBN0312426836
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving...
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
AuthorPaula J. Giddings
ISBN0688146503
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...
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
AuthorLynne Olson
ISBN0684850133
THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE VITAL ROLE
WOMEN -- BOTH BLACK AND WHITE -- PLAYED
IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, credit finally goes where credit is due -- to the bold women who were crucial to the success of the civil rights movement. From...
The Earthsea Quartet
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0140154272
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018: The Earthsea Quartet (Earthsea Cycle, #1-4) by Ursula K. Le Guin



"To light a candle, is to cast a shadow": Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 – 2018


Who now has the stature...
To Hell with Dying
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0152890742
If I were to rate this book purely by the enjoyment it brought to my children as a read-aloud, I might rate it higher. I found it a bit of a marathon to read to them, but they were with me for every word. The story somehow touches something inside them; it resonates. Perhaps it's the theme of death, touched with...
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0151421692
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes...
Craft: How to Be a Modern Witch
AuthorGabriela Herstik
Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life. Writer, fashion alchemist and modern witch, Gabriela Herstik, unlocks the ancient art of witchcraft so that you can find a brand of magick that works for you. From working with crystals, tarot and astrology, to understanding sex magick, solstices...
Alice Walker: A Life
AuthorEvelyn C. White
ISBN0393328260
Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, The Color Purple, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy Award–nominated film), but also because these accomplishments...
The Storm
AuthorKate Chopin
"The Storm" by Kate Chopin is a sequel to "At the 'Cadian Ball". We encounter married couples Bobint and Calixta, with four year old son Bibi in tow, and Alcee and Clarisse, five years after the ball. A torrential rain. Bobint and Bibi wait out the storm. They worry about Calixta at home alone. They need...
The Kiss
AuthorKate Chopin
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.Probably not my favourite Kate Chopin's story.

This short story is about a girl, Nathalie who has an affair with her brother's friend, Mr. Harvy and at the same time she is with a wealthly man, Mr....
The Black Woman
AuthorToni Cade Bambara
A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems,...
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