Posted on: July 6, 2021
edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
This bestseller marks a milestone in the study of African American history. It is the result of research conducted for the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X...
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Posted on: July 6, 2021
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave.
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Posted on: July 6, 2021
by Garous Abdolmalekian
A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian (bilingual edition). The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian (aka: Garus Abd al-Malik...
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Posted on: July 6, 2021
by Fiona Davis
It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life — her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand build...
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Posted on: July 7, 2021
by Peace A. Medie
An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a wom...
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Posted on: July 7, 2021
by Natasha D. Trethewey
The two-term U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard poetically links the human struggles and resilience of African-American women throughout history to the collective trauma of national wounds.
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Posted on: July 7, 2021
by Saidiya Hartman
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New Yo...
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