Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In …
Want to Read $ 9.99"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found among ants, monkeys & ruminants. Impossible, recalcitrant domestics weren't yet in his view or anyone else's."-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found among ants, monkeys & ruminants. Impossible, recalcitrant domestics weren't yet in his view or anyone else's."-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- race
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- african american
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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- african american
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
3. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
By: Danielle L. McGuire
4.47
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a st… read more
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- race
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- african american
"Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractur…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
"Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or se…"-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
4. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
5. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
6. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- race
- history
7. Poetics of Relation
By: Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writer… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
8. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
9. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
10. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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- african american
11. A Map to the Door of No Return
By: Dionne Brand
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Map to the Door of No Returnis a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity a… read more
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12. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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13. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
By: J. Jack Halberstam , Fred Moten , Stefano Harney
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black… read more
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14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- race
- history
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- anti racist
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
15. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
By: Cynthia Carr
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
16. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- african american
17. A Short History of Trans Misogyny
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.47
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more
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- history
- lgbt
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- queer
18. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By: C. Riley Snorton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more
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- race
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- lgbt
- gender
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19. No Archive Will Restore You
By: Julietta Singh
4.28
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish medit… read more
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20. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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21. Afropessimism
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Bla… read more
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- race
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- african american
"As a boy I seldom lived in the present. It hurt too much to be in the present. When I occurred to myself I was myself in the future."-Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism
