Raymond Williams, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Raymond Williams, PhD

I'm looking forward to reading her new book The Gospel According to the New World. https://t.co/81paK6n7og

Raymond Williams, PhD

Book 2 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston? Description: “Mules and Men is the first great collection of black America’s folk world. In the 1930’s, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her “native village” of Eatonville, Florida to record the... 1/ https://t.co/PdEzILgGPM

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Nonfiction Releases 12/13/22 Islam and Blackness by Jonathan A.C. Brown Not the Camilla We Knew by Rachael Hanel The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood The Jeffersonians by Kevin R.C. Gutzman The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969 – 73 by Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair 1/ https://t.co/Ze5gYTA4nY

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Book 11 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston? Book Description: “In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of... 1/ https://t.co/u9tR5KEyqj

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Book 5 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston? Book Description: “In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song... 1/ https://t.co/yA16HFnE9R

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Book 4 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston? Book Description: “As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide... 1/ https://t.co/HkAhEpwDbO

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Book 9 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston? Book Description: “This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston’s short fiction - most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime - reveals the evolution of one of... 1/ https://t.co/NCtBjtMA02

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#VelshiBannedBookClub: ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ by Zora Neale Hurston https://t.co/F0uSUZQ2Sj via @msnbc #TheZoraChallenge

Raymond Williams, PhD

Book 12 of #TheZoraChallenge Have you read Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston? Book Description: “In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York,... 1/ https://t.co/KRzwuJk0Ns

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Nonfiction Releases 1/17/23 Remember Me Now by Faitth Brooks I Saw Death Coming by Kidada E. Williams The Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple Acting in the Wake by Walter Brueggemann Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 1/ https://t.co/hp3gSVLrVt