Tanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️ 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 BrooksTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
$32.50Member price:$30.88 + Free shipping5% off
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Michaela CoelTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where We Stand: Class Matters
Bell HooksTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️"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
$51.99Member price:$26.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
My Great, Wide, Beautiful World
Juanita HarrisonTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
$23.95Member price:$21.56 + Free shipping10% off
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jessie Redmon FausetTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
Hardcover, 2025
$24.99Member price:$22.49 + Free shipping10% off
The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
William H. TurnerTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Michaela CoelTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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 McHenryTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️In To Make Negro Literature, Elizabeth McHenry focuses on these forgotten years—roughly 1896 through the first 2 decades of the 1900s—not b/c these decades marked success, but rather, b/c it was a period of publishing failure. https://t.co/kieGmA9ZHQ
Paperback, 2021
$28.95Member price:$27.50 + Free shipping5% off
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Tanisha C. FordTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️"Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style is a book of arresting and tender portraits. It’s a much-needed companion to books like Tanisha Ford’s Liberated Threads, showing how men’s style was just as relevant as women’s in the era." https://t.co/9ktJZL62CN
Paperback, 2017
$29.95Member price:$28.45 + Free shipping5% off
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonTanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾♀️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
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book