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Kiese Laymon is an author. it was full of sammiches

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Book Cover for: Salvation: Black People and Love, Bell Hooks

Salvation: Black People and Love

Bell Hooks
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RT @ashoncrawley: bell hooks. salvation: black people and love from reel to real: race, class and sex at the movies teaching to transgres…

Paperback, 2001

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Big Girl, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Big Girl

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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All the feels. All the chills. All the genius like a mug.

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Long Division, Kiese Laymon

Long Division

Kiese Laymon
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RT @IBJIYONGI: I also consider Kiese Laymon’s Long Division to be Afrofuturist, and it is one of my all time FAVORITE novels. https://t.c…

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Angie Cruz

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz
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right on time

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Color Purple

Alice Walker
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I'm reissuing & revising Long Division as I imagined it. I am not the writer I long to be, but Im getting better. The day I turned in final edits for LD, Alice Walker asked me to write the introduction to a new edition of The Color Purple. I am thankful NYC publishing was wrong.

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson

Perfect Black

Crystal Wilkinson
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This is family. And my gawd, this book, Perfect Black, is stunning https://twitter.com/CrystalWilki/status/1495939141569331206

Paperback, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley
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A 19 year old wrote this. You will not believe it.

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry
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It is SOUTH TO AMERICA day/week/year in this house. Peep the birth of a new genre. Imani Perry put all her feets in this one.

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America, Adam Serwer

The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

Adam Serwer
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Adam Server was literally my first student and this weekend I blurbed a book he wrote that happens to be the most lush rigorous book I will ever read on how this place made Trump, and what that making will do to us forever. The Cruelty is The Point. I'm so mushy right now.

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Book Cover for: Reel to Real: Race, class and sex at the movies, Bell Hooks

Reel to Real: Race, class and sex at the movies

Bell Hooks
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RT @ashoncrawley: bell hooks. salvation: black people and love from reel to real: race, class and sex at the movies teaching to transgres…

Paperback, 2008

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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