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Ayendy Bonifacio, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Frederick Douglass (1852), “WHAT, TO THE SLAVE, IS THE FOURTH OF JULY” “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim.

Paperback, 2021

$4.99Member price:$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Something to Declare: Essays, Julia Alvarez

Something to Declare: Essays

Julia Alvarez
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Twitter friends: This fall, I am teaching a single-author course on la grande Julia Alvarez. What texts (short stories, poems, essays) would you recommend?

Paperback, 2014

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Claudia Rankine’s #Citizen makes clear how often racism is communicated without language in seemingly simple and quotidian motions & behaviors that render Black people invisible and hyper-visible all at once. https://t.co/rmxVXMXdJ8

Paperback, 2014

$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective, Lorgia García Peña

Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

Lorgia García Peña
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Our @UToledo community had the pleasure & honor of learning from Dr. Lorgia García Peña (@lorgia_pena). We listened attentively to her new research on histories & epistemologies of global Blackness from her must-read book Translating Blackness. Truly, a highlight of my career! https://t.co/YBxkg1VsVy

Paperback, 2022

$27.95Member price:$26.55 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

This summer, I’m helping one of our LatinX minors write an honors thesis on Elizabeth Acevedo’s brilliant The Poet X, which means that I get to re-read this book. 😃 https://t.co/UZSSb9MNjV

Paperback, 2020

$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pardon My Heart: Poems, Marcus Jackson

Pardon My Heart: Poems

Marcus Jackson
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

I’m incredibly honored & humbled to announce that I was awarded a $3k merit award by the @ArtsCommission for my new collection of poems tentatively titled "aguacero." Thank you to the review panel Jessica Hong, Marcus Jackson, Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, & Arts of Commission of TOL! https://t.co/PtwBFOu8Po https://t.co/MITPoFxefI

Paperback, 2018

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People, T. Nicole Shockley

Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People

T. Nicole Shockley
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Our @UToledo community had the pleasure & honor of learning from Dr. Lorgia García Peña (@lorgia_pena). We listened attentively to her new research on histories & epistemologies of global Blackness from her must-read book Translating Blackness. Truly, a highlight of my career! https://t.co/YBxkg1VsVy

Paperback, 2016

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

@PhDJesus This course sounds awesome! Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive would be interesting to include.

Paperback, 2020

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Final Harvest: Poems, Emily Dickinson

Final Harvest: Poems

Emily Dickinson
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

I incidentally coordinated with the Emily Dickinson Museum @DickinsonMuseum. The place pulsates with poems. https://t.co/HM56Iu5mtu

Paperback, 1964

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art, Marisel C. Moreno

Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art

Marisel C. Moreno
Ayendy Bonifacio, PhDAyendy Bonifacio, PhD

Heart’s full of joy with the arrival of @marisel_moreno’s brilliant #CrossingWaters! Can’t wait to read, teach, and cite this book. https://t.co/0KKfa9V5vv

Paperback, 2022

$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)