Why I Love Black Women
10 best books like Why I Love Black Women (Michael Eric Dyson): Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Praisesong for the Widow, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle, Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive, Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa, Kehinde, Black Bourgeoisie, Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement, When Harlem Was in Vogue
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...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 0452267110 |
Throwing into suitcases all she brought with her on this Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson knows she has to go home. She wonders why she has been dreaming of her childhood, of the months of August spent on a small island with her great-aunt. Were these dreams of the Shout Ring and her great-aunt's stories...
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 | Bill Minutaglio |
| ISBN | 0060185414 |
On a day that dawned with brisk breezes, a clear sky, and perfect temperatures, the small town of Texas City suddenly found itself facing the greatest industrial disaster in the most industrialized nation on the planet. And, in time, the survivors of that all-American city found themselves wondering...
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive is a compilation of more than 120 extraordinary and haunting photographs and related ephemera documenting the practice of death and mourning photography in the Victorian Era and early twentieth century. Supplemented...
| Author | Colin Grant |
| ISBN | 0195367944 |
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer...
| Author | Buchi Emecheta |
| ISBN | 0435909851 |
Kehinde and her husband Albert had always intended to return to Nigeria. When the opportunity arises, Kehinde realises she is reluctant to leave London and the independence she has enjoyed there. Albert, longing for the prosperity and status that will be his in Nigeria, is determined not to be thwarted...
| Author | E. Franklin Frazier |
| ISBN | 0684832410 |
A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered—revered...
Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement
| Author | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| ISBN | 0380813416 |
In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of heroic African Americans and offers their stories as inspiring examples for young people, who too rarely encounter positive black role models in history books or in the media.
Profiled here are Peter...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140263349 |
The decade and a half that followed World War I was a time of tremendous optimism in Harlem. It was a time when Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others made their indelible mark on the landscape of American culture: African Americans made their...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0837155614 |
Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Annie Allen in 1950, making her the first African American woman to win the illustrious award. A sequel to her Street Called Bronzeville, Annie Allen continues to describe in detail the African American experience during the late 1940s....
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
| Author | Randall Robinson |
| ISBN | 0452282101 |
The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit.In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. Drawing from research and...
The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women
| Author | Elaine Meryl Brown |
| ISBN | 0345518489 |
In this engaging and invaluable “mentor in your pocket,” three dynamic and successful black female executives share their strategies to help all black women, at any level of their careers, play the power game—and win.
Rich with wisdom, this practical gem focuses on the building...
The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
| Author | Asha Bandele |
| ISBN | 0671021486 |
How did a beautiful, talented college student fall in love with a man serving twenty to life for murder? And why did she marry him? At a time when one in four black men are caught in the web of the criminal justice system, Asha Bandele shatters the myths of prisoners' wives and tells a story of embracing the...
Scars across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence against Women
| Author | Elaine Storkey |
| ISBN | 0281075085 |
Every three seconds, a girl under the age of 18 is married somewhere across the world usually without her consent and sometimes to a much older man. Combining rigorous research and compelling personal testimonies, Elaine Storkey investigates the different forms of violence experienced by women...
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
| Author | Jabari Asim |
| ISBN | 0618197176 |
A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.
The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Asim pinpoints...
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
| Author | Cornel West |
| ISBN | 0415910285 |
In Keeping Faith, Cornel West - author of the bestselling Race Matters - puts forward his ideas about race and about philosophy. West's powerful voice ranges widely across issues of race and culture, the role of the black intellectual, politics and philosophy in America, art and architecture, questions...
Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0679741453 |
It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country...
Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
| Author | John M. Carrera |
| ISBN | 0811867188 |
Featuring over 1,500 engravings that originally graced the pages of Webster's dictionaries in the 19th century, this chunky volume is an irresistible treasure trove for art lovers, designers, and anyone with an interest in visual history. Meticulously cleaned and restored by fine-press bookmaker...
A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918
| Author | Robert A. Kann |
| ISBN | 0520042069 |
"An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable...
Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
| Author | Victoria Clark |
| ISBN | 0300117019 |
Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen...
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
| Author | T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting |
| ISBN | 0814740146 |
2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award
Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics...
ego trip's Big Book of Racism!
| Author | Sacha Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0060988967 |
Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the absurdities, complexities, and nuances of race...
Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries
| Author | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| ISBN | 0879514620 |
In his lifetime, Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, became a worldwide bestseller. In Manuscripts Don't Burn the title a line from his famous novel, J.A. E. Curtis presents a gripping chronicle of Bulgakov's...
Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition
| Author | Haki R. Madhubuti |
| ISBN | 0883781352 |
Here is the seminal and critical work that helped solidify Haki Madhubuti as an informed, passionate, and caring commentator on Black life, culture, relationships, and the development and stability of the Black community. In Black Men, an integral text for anyone with vested interest in building...
