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Some of My Favorite Books (in no particular order)
African American Literacies, by Elaine Richardson
Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, by Mark Anthony Neal
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down, Joan Morgan
Talkin' and Testifyin: The Langauge of Black America, Geneva Smitherman
Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women, Jacqueline Jones Royster
Hip-Hop Generation, Bakari Kitwana
No More Prisons, William "Upski" Wimsatt
Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line, Michael Eric Dyson
Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou WIliiams, Tammy L. Kernodle
Fighting Words: Black Women & the Search for Justice, Patricia Hill Collins
If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday, Farah Jasmine Griffin
Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character, Karla F. C. Holloway
Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, E. Frances White
Shadow Boxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Joy James
Favorite Books of Poetry
Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement, Nikki Giovanni
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, Alice Walker
Muse & Drudge, Harryette Mullen
Ostinato Vamps, Wanda Coleman
Call Me Black Woman, Priscilla Hancock Cooper
The State of the Ghetto Address, Blackman Preach
Blackman Preach's Website: Poetic Black Fusion
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Favorite Novels
The River Where Blood is Born, by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sula, by Toni Morrison
The Joys of Motherhood, by Buchi Emecheta
Explicit Content, by Black Artemis
Disappearing Acts, by Terry McMillan
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