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PRE-ORDER NOW! Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Oct. 2023 Amistad/HarperCollins

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Book Cover for: Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction, Robin Brooks

Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

Robin Brooks
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Pittsburgh-based author's book explores 'Class Interruptions' in novels by Black women https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2022-03-14/pittsburgh-based-authors-book-explores-class-interruptions-in-novels-by-black-women

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, Michaela Coel

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel
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Finished Michaela Coel's book, Misfits. It's a good, quick read for storytellers and other creative types. And if you, like me, enjoy Michaela's voice, the audiobook is a pleasure. Either way, check it out! #WritingCommunity https://t.co/unPoLjiyKz

Paperback, 2022

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Where We Stand: Class Matters, Bell Hooks

Where We Stand: Class Matters

Bell Hooks
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"Nowadays it is fashionable to talk about race or gender; the uncool subject is class. It's the subject that makes us all tense, nervous, uncertain about where we stand." -bell hooks (Where We Stand: Class Matters, 2000) #shmoneyfiles #oursecretsociety

Paperback, 2000

$48.95$24.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Juanita Harrison

My Great, Wide, Beautiful World

Juanita Harrison
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Others, like Juanita Harrison, found alternative ways to make it happen. She started traveling abroad when she was 13, hiring herself out as a maid and doing other odd jobs to cover her expenses. She chronicled her experiences in a 1936 memoir, My Great, Wide, Beautiful World.

Paperback, 2021

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral, Jessie Redmon Fauset

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

Jessie Redmon Fauset
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On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence "Why [Passing] has been remembered and circulated for decades while Plum Bun failed to reach the same kind of recognition confounds me." Yesss, @MorganJerkins!! https://t.co/tRfh4G9rQH

Paperback, 2025

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, William H. Turner

The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

William H. Turner
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William H. Turner grew up in a thriving Black community in the coal country of Harlan County, KY in the 1940s/50s. His new book, The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, documents a region often stereotyped as white & poor. https://t.co/8YD1Y7moAC

Paperback, 2021

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, Michaela Coel

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel
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Finished Michaela Coel's book, Misfits. It's a good, quick read for storytellers and other creative types. And if you, like me, enjoy Michaela's voice, the audiobook is a pleasure. Either way, check it out! #WritingCommunity https://t.co/unPoLjiyKz

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Book Cover for: To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship, Elizabeth McHenry

To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

Elizabeth McHenry
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In To Make Negro Literature, Elizabeth McHenry focuses on these forgotten yearsโ€”roughly 1896 through the first 2 decades of the 1900sโ€”not b/c these decades marked success, but rather, b/c it was a period of publishing failure. https://t.co/kieGmA9ZHQ

Paperback, 2021

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul, Tanisha C. Ford

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

Tanisha C. Ford
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"Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style is a book of arresting and tender portraits. Itโ€™s a much-needed companion to books like Tanisha Fordโ€™s Liberated Threads, showing how menโ€™s style was just as relevant as womenโ€™s in the era." https://t.co/9ktJZL62CN

Paperback, 2017

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
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Literary scholar @FJasmineG weighs in on conservatives' efforts to ban #Beloved in the classroom: "Banning Toni Morrison's books doesn't protect children. It just sanitizes racism." https://t.co/xD0bzJk0Jt

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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