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Les Blancs: the Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry
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Les blancs -- The drinking gourd -- What use are flowers?
The Blacker the Berry
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Emma Lou -- Harlem -- Alva -- Rent party -- Pyrrhie victory.
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology
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In this anthology, black gay men describe their lives and their hopes through essays, short fiction, poetry, and artwork.
Patient
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Bettina Judd's phenomenal debut poetry collection, PATIENT., is about recovery in many senses: recovery of the subjectivity of several historical figures, through the recovery, reconstitution, and telling of their stories--among them Anarcha Westcott, Betsey Harris, Lucy Zimmerman, Joice Heth, Saartjie Baartman, and Henrietta Lacks, who were infamously 'patients' or subjects of inspection and 'plunder' .
Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts
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Blending poetry and memoir, conversation and performance theory, Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts enlivens a personal archive of visual and verbal offerings written and organized by jaamil olawale kosoko. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s concept of biomythography, kosoko mixes personal history, biography, and mythology to tell a complex narrative rooted within a queer, Black, self-defined imagination.
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
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Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of African-American men, feminism among men, and AIDS in the black community.
Give Us Each Day: the Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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