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Black Women Radicals Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, Joseph R. Fitzgerald

The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation

Joseph R. Fitzgerald
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📖: To learn more about the life, leadership, and legacy of the late and great Gloria Richardson, you can read: “The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation” by Joseph R. Fitzgerald @BarbaraSmithBio https://t.co/YyjOOcwcLx

Hardcover, 2018

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Racial Formation in the United States, Michael Omi

Racial Formation in the United States

Michael Omi
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The term “racialization” was coined by Michael Omi & Howard Winant in their book, “Racial Formation in the United States.” Racialization is apart of the genealogy of Critical Race Theory. Intersectionality is a Critical Race Theory. Omi and Winant also cite Crenshaw… https://t.co/8BdjtdVJdz

Paperback, 2014

$66.99$41.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Living as a Lesbian, Cheryl Clarke

Living as a Lesbian

Cheryl Clarke
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➖Check this out! Black American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and feminist activist @cherylclarke4’s book, LIVING AS A LESBIAN (1986) has been translated in Brazilian Portuguese as VIVENDO COMO UMA LÉSBICA! ✨🇧🇷✊🏾 #blackwomenradicals https://t.co/F2bw1KTLZb

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Book Cover for: All about Love: New Visions, Bell Hooks

All about Love: New Visions

Bell Hooks
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“…Love is an act of will-namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions #blackwomenradicals https://t.co/x4GwOJO1bb

Paperback, 2018

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Child of the Dark: Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus, Carolina Maria de Jesus

Child of the Dark: Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus

Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Carolina Maria de Jesus (March 14 1914 – February 13, 1977) was an Afro-Brazilian memorialist. A favelada (slum dweller), de Jesus is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as “Quarto de Despejo” (English-Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus).

Paperback, Mass Market, 2003

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Toshio Meronek
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Happy Birthday, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy @immissmajor!🎈She is a pioneering activist & one of the revolutionaries of the Stonewall Rebellion. ✨ 📣Make sure to pre-order her book, “Miss Major Speaks: The Life & Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary”: https://t.co/2WHbuGAPwx https://t.co/1UXCb38A5d

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, Bell Hooks

Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

Bell Hooks
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“No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’ … No woman has ever written enough.” — bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer At Work, 1999 📸: Photo of bell hooks. 1999. Donna Dietrich/TNS. #blackwomenradicals https://t.co/zTx0vMWZgp

Paperback, 1999

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, Leah Thomas

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Leah Thomas
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Pre-order @Leahtommi's forthcoming book, "The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet"! More info: https://t.co/1Wh1PWweKD #blackwomenradicals https://t.co/j05LSBZRw9

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Changes: A Love Story, Ama Ata Aidoo

Changes: A Love Story

Ama Ata Aidoo
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Ama Ata Aidoo, “Criticism and Ideology”, p. 183, cited from the afterword of Aidoo’s book “Changes” with the afterword written by Tuzyline Jita Allan, p. 172.

Paperback, 1993

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
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Octavia E. Butler was the author of several award-winning novels including PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year & PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (1995) winner of the Nebula Award for the best science fiction novel published that year. https://t.co/bsljY9gJKc

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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