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
$48.95$24.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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