Category: Black Interest

Posted in Black Interest Historical Mystery Mystery

Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

Dead Dead Girls | Nekesa Afia | ‘The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia. Harlem, 1926. Young black wom

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction

The Final Strife by El-Arifi Saara

The Final Strife | El-Arifi Saara | ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily

Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control.

Blue is the blood of the poor, of wor

Posted in Black Interest Romance

D’vaughn And Kris Plan A Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

D’vaughn And Kris Plan A Wedding | Chencia C. Higgins | D’Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding. Their whole relationship is fake.

Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala’s big break

Posted in Asian Interest Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities by Kanika Batra

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities | Kanika Batra | Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism

Posted in Black Interest Literary Criticism

South Africa And The Dream Of Love To Come by Brenna M. Munro

South Africa And The Dream Of Love To Come | Brenna M. Munro | After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendan

Posted in Black Interest Film and Television

Sisters In The Life by Yvonne Welbon; Alexandra Juhasz

Sisters In The Life | | From experimental shorts and web series to Hollywood blockbusters and feminist porn, the work of African American lesbian filmmakers has made a powerf

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Out In Africa by Ashley Currier

Out In Africa | Ashley Currier | Visibility matters to activists–to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Trans

Black On Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton

Black On Both Sides | C. Riley Snorton | The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however,

Posted in Black Interest Speculative Fiction YA Fiction (Young Adult)

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart | Kalynn Bayron | Briseis has a gift: with a single touch she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms. When Briseis’s aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estat

Posted in Black Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Ace Of Spades | Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé | Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and