Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity
10 best books like Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity (Julie Bettie): Go Tell It on the Mountain, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, The Dark Wife, All the King's Men, Don't Call Us Dead, The Chanur Saga, Powers, Different Hours, Selected Poems, Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
Go Tell It on the Mountain
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0141185910 |
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate,...
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
| Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
| ISBN | 0415924847 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In
Black Feminist Thought,
Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American...
| Author | Sarah Diemer |
| ISBN | 1461179939 |
Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want--except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus....
| Author | Robert Penn Warren |
| ISBN | 0156004801 |
More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful...
| 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...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886779308 |
Here, for the first time in one volume, is C.J. Cherryh's classic adventure of interstellar politics, a spacefaring fugitive, and first contact with a strange race known as "humans."
The pride of Chanur previously published by DAW in 1982 ;
Chanur's venture previously published in 1985...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0152057706 |
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known....
| Author | Stephen Dunn |
| ISBN | 0393322327 |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
A wise and graceful new collection by one of our "major, indispensable poets" (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0060882964 |
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation."
— Robert F. Kiernan
Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for...
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
| Author | C.J. Pascoe |
| ISBN | 0520252306 |
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning...
| Author | Layli Long Soldier |
| ISBN | 1555977677 |
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our...
