The Black and White of It by Ann Allen Shockley
Ann Allen Shockley | The Black and White of It | Short stories about interfacial lesbian relationships.
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Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | ‘Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania–derailing the War Between the States and c
Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Bread Out of Stone by Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
The Threshing Floor by Barbara Burford
Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | ‘Nikky Finney has been a fine poet much too long to say that this latest treasure is her promise coming into being. She exploded with so much talent w
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
“[A] shrewd and lyrical
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men
The Lavender House Murder by Nikki Baker
Nikki Baker | The Lavender House Murder | From Publishers Weekly
On vacation in Provincetown, Mass., Virginia Kelly, a lesbian African American and the narrator of this often titillating w