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Black Girls Are Magic

Books By Black Girls, For Black Girls

A powerful, tender story of race and identity by award-winning author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s	What does “feminism” mean today?
Salt, by Somali poet Nayyirah Waheed, is a powerful dedication to blackness and womanhood.	all of the unsleeping. gold sweeping. poems. i have in my hands. By Nayyirah Waheed	Warsan Shire is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey.
Poetry. Cross-Genre. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. South Asian Studies. African Studies. By Shailja Patel	milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.	Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America where she unravels the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects on Antiguan society.	Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into self-hood that resonates with sober reflection, intelligent passion, and joyous love."	Powerful story of black womanhood's sexuality, love, politics, and freedom.
The narrator, Sophie Caco, relates her direct experiences and impressions of violence, migration, and growth, from age 12 until she is in her twenties.


	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.	Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark.
Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.	Amid the War on Poverty, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., race riots, and the Black Power movement, Stevie grows into a socially aware young adult with a burgeoning sexuality and pride in her identity.	Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter… all while trying to answer the question, “can a strong, single, and successful black woman ever find love?”
In “The Justice Women,” the lives of the three women intertwine as they racial and gender norms in Jim Crow era Detroit.		In Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes chronicles the powerful impact saying yes had on every aspect of her life―and how we can all change our lives with one little word. Yes.
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future is a groundbreaking collection of more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Hannah Giorgis, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world.	In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa.	491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69 shares with the world Winnie Mandela’s moving and compelling journal along with some of the letters written between several affected parties at the time, including Winnie and Nelson Mandela, himself then a prisoner on Robben Island for nearly seven years.
Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions.	A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.	Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials.
In this groundbreaking book, Melissa V. Harris-Perry uses multiple methods of inquiry, including literary analysis, political theory, focus groups, surveys, and experimental research, to understand more deeply black women's political and emotional responses to pervasive negative race and gender images.	In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change.	Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950, moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at every opportunity
The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s comprehensive collection of writings, in the feminist tradition, of more than sixty African American women.	When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history, drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents.	In the tradition of towering biographies that tell us as much about America as they do about their subject, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweepingnarrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.
In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without.	In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements.

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