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Naomi
Josh Baker • 2020
Supreme Glamour The Inside Story of the Original Pop Fashionistas
Mary Wilson • 2019
Diana Ross Going Back
Diana Ross • 2002
Catwalk The Art of Model Style
Marie Helvin • 1985
Walking with the Muses A Memoir
Pat Cleveland • 2016
They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers • 2019
The Original Black Elite Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor • 2018
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Lawrence Otis Graham • 1999
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
Toni Cade Bambara • 1999

Blood in My Eye
George Jackson • 1990
Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He was to spent the rest of his life -- eleven years-- in the California prison system, seven in solidary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.
Black Women Writers at Work
Claudia Tate • 2023
<p>"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." --Claudia Tate, from the introduction<br> <br> Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. </p> <p>Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.<br></p> <p><br> Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art.<br> <br> Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for readers and writers today.<br></p>
Ain't I a Woman Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks • 2015
Feminist Theory From Margin to Center
bell hooks • 2015
Black Diamond Queens African American Women and Rock and Roll
Maureen Mahon • 2020
From Slave Cabins to the White House Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
Koritha Mitchell • 2020
The Grimkes The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Kerri K. Greenidge • 2022
Harlem Nocturne Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
Farah Jasmine Griffin • 2013
Black Society
Gerri Major • 1977
Remaking Respectability
Victoria W. Wolcott • 2013
African American Women of the Old West
Tricia Martineau Wagner • 2007
Double Victory How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
Cheryl Mullenbach • 2017
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II
Maureen Honey • 1842
One Woman's Army A Black Officer Remembers the Wac
Charity Adams Earley • 1996
The New Brownies' Book A Love Letter to Black Families
Charly Palmer • 2023
Black Country Music Listening for Revolutions
Francesca T. Royster • 2022
Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-century South
Blain Roberts • 2014
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Sabrina Strings • 2019
Morningside The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul
Aran Shetterly • 2024
Swing Low A History of Black Christianity in the United States
Walter R. Strickland • 2024
Humans in Shackles An Atlantic History of Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo • 2024
Vintage Black Glamour
Nichelle Gainer • 2015
Ladies' Pages African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them
Noliwe M. Rooks • 2004
