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  • Next: New Poems - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Next: New Poems

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    Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way...

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  • Fred Douglass Womens Rights PB - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Fred Douglass Womens Rights PB

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    In their long, continuing struggle for equality, American women have had to rely primarily on their own resources, which have been considerable. Ye...

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  • Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

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    Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women. ...

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  • Where We Stand: Class Matters - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Where We Stand: Class Matters

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    Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--perso...

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  • Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

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    "She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a ...

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  • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men t...

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  • Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

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    In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black i...

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  • Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

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    “Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry.”—Booklist Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the de...

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  • The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 - Hardcover | Diverse Reads
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    The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010

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    Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poe...

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  • Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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    New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminis...

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  • The Heart of a Woman - Hardcover | Diverse Reads
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    The Heart of a Woman

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    In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black arti...

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  • The Black Woman: An Anthology - Paperback(Reprint) | Diverse Reads
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    The Black Woman: An Anthology

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    A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a wor...

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  • Killing Rage: Ending Racism - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Killing Rage: Ending Racism

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    “hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” —Cornel WestMore than two d...

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  • Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

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    In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opi...

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