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Koritha Mitchell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING and FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY and INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Feminist/Wannabe runner

37 books
Book Cover for: Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation, Julius B. Fleming Jr

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Julius B. Fleming Jr
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

What a treat to celebrate two great books at #ASALH2022! Treva Lindsey’s AMERICA, GODDAM and Julius Fleming’s BLACK PATIENCE. https://t.co/ImN0SvfHqP

Paperback, 2022

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Ann Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Ann Harriet Jacobs
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Stunning, isn’t it? This water took Harriet Jacobs to (more) freedom. Yes, my November 2022 trip to her birthplace (Edenton, NC) lives with me! Even with grading to do, copy edits for my forthcoming @broadviewpress edition of INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL are calling. https://t.co/JOuJsEWAyN

Paperback, 2013

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential, Heba Gowayed

Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential

Heba Gowayed
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Taking a break from my #writing struggle to be inspired by this brain trust!!! Celebrating @hebagowayed’s book REFUGE: HOW THE STATE SHAPES HUMAN POTENTIAL!!! @victorerikray, @nedasoc, @rhacel, and Nazli Kibria. https://t.co/CRJKU3b0jY

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + 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
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

… There is that knowing restraint, telling you: ‘You don't want to make me do this, but I will.’ I am sorry people mistake withholding for timidity.” ~Imani Perry, SOUTH TO AMERICA

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Superbwoman: It's All about the Be, Janet M. Neal

The Superbwoman: It's All about the Be

Janet M. Neal
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

So much fun talking to #LDFshow again! And this afternoon, I get to visit Dr. Lori Harrison-Kahan & her Boston College students, who read my @broadviewpress edition of IOLA LEROY! #NerdSoHard And she’s award-winning author of THE WHITE NEGRESS & editor of THE SUPERWOMAN https://t.co/4Bgp29daPg

Paperback, 2018

$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs

12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

Gotta love when a permissions issue is much easer than expected! I trust this will balance out issues that are harder to address. #grateful I feel blessed to walk this journey again with INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL & Harriet Jacobs, whose journey entailed so much more

Paperback, 2014

$16.30$8.15 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, Koritha Mitchell

Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930

Koritha Mitchell
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In 2012, I gave a lecture at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the similarities between lynching and anti-LGBT violence, and it became an essay in 2013. My book LIVING WITH LYNCHING was published in 2011, so it wasn’t unusual to receive requests for (1/5)

Paperback, 2012

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Kindred

Octavia Butler
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.@hulu dropped an 8-episode adaption of Octavia Butler's KINDRED on 12/13 on @hulu A good time to revisit this: https://t.co/95PfVCMKcH

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

Gotta love when a permissions issue is much easer than expected! I trust this will balance out issues that are harder to address. #grateful I feel blessed to walk this journey again with INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL & Harriet Jacobs, whose journey entailed so much more

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Book Cover for: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs
Koritha MitchellKoritha Mitchell

Few things feel as good as returning library books after making every possible correction to page proofs. When I tell you I’m proud of what I’ve done with Harriet Jacobs’s remarkable book INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, believe that!!! https://t.co/5xFFR1vtMb https://t.co/sTEDCcIPmD

Paperback, 2001

$5.00$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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