Tanisha C. Ford ๐ง๐พโโ๏ธ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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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

Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction
Robin Brooks
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
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Michaela Coel
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
Where We Stand: Class Matters
Bell Hooks
"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
$51.99$26.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
My Great, Wide, Beautiful World
Juanita Harrison
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
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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
The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
William H. Turner
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
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Michaela Coel
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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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship
Elizabeth McHenry
In To Make Negro Literature, Elizabeth McHenry focuses on these forgotten yearsโroughly 1896 through the first 2 decades of the 1900sโnot 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
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Tanisha C. Ford
"Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style is a book of arresting and tender portraits. Itโs a much-needed companion to books like Tanisha Fordโs Liberated Threads, showing how menโs style was just as relevant as womenโs in the era." https://t.co/9ktJZL62CN
Paperback, 2017
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
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