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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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The American Society of Magical Negroes is a fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. The dismissal of "Black violence" as an illegitimate form of resistance...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN, Bakari Sellers spoke from the heart sharing devastating insight that touched millions around the world: "It's just so much pain. You get so tired. We have black children. I have a 15-year-old daughter. I mean, what do I tell her? I'm raising a son. I have no idea what to tell him. It's just--it's hard being black in this country when your life is not valued and people are worried...
Author
Publisher
Singing Dragon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As the practice of yoga continues to flourish within Western Black and Brown communities, this transformative, Black culturally centered toolkit highlights the barriers that hinder access to yoga. It takes core aspects of yoga philosophy and contextualizes it within Black cultural norms, religious taboos, and historical healing practices, and teaches readers how to foster a safe haven for their clients and communities.
Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Now a young man in Israel, watching his brother become a Bar Mitzvah, Yosef remembers back to his own childhood in Ethiopia, and the dream he had, foreseeing the miraculous air rescue of Operation Solomon in 1991, which led to the fulfillment of his own family's dream to live in Israel, land of their forefathers"--
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Art of Remembering brings together a collection of essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw written over the course of a twenty-year period (2002-2022). The book documents Shaw's own intellectual journey as an African American art historian and considers how desire, delusion, and what she calls re-memory figures in the practices of critical race art history and visual cultural studies. Shaw sees her book as a project that seeks to address the unspeakable...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Black Girl Autopoetics maps the everyday digital practices Black girls, showing us what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. Ashleigh Greene Wade coins the term "Black girl autopoetics" as a way of describing how Black girls' self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. By contrast to the pre-internet...
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