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

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Julius B. Fleming Jr
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
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Ann Harriet Jacobs
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
Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential
Heba Gowayed
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
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
… 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
The Superbwoman: It's All about the Be
Janet M. Neal
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
12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
Koritha Mitchell
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
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Kindred
Octavia Butler
.@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
Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
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