Category: Black Interest

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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color by Gloria Anzaldua

Gloria Anzaldua | Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color | A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multip

Posted in Black Interest Mystery

Keeping Secrets by Penny Mickelbury

Penny Mickelbury | Keeping Secrets | In Washington, D.C., the nation’s capitol, death comes to wealthy, closeted gay people at night. In their own cars. At the hands of a killer who someh

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Celebrating Hotchclaw by Ann Allen Shockley

Ann Allen Shockley | Celebrating Hotchclaw | Alice Walker (The Color Purple) wrote of Loving Her ‘ : ‘In its exploration of a daring subject boldly shared I think (the novel)?.enab

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Black Interest

Lez Talk by S. Andrea Allen; Lauren Cherelle

S. Andrea Allen; Lauren Cherelle | Lez Talk | A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes overlooks Black lesbian writing, Lez Talk is a collection of sho

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith

Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | One of the very earliest paperback Lesbian novels published in America. Also one of the earliest Signet books, whose numbering started at 660. Wonderf

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen | Quicksand | ‘Quicksand’ (1928) is the first novel to give a voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helen Crane, the book’s protagonist, is trapped in the c

Posted in Black Interest Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Pulp

Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson | Dark Laughter | The title comes from the protagonist who spent several months in New Orleans, where he watched and listened to African Americans, and thought ‘listeni

Posted in Anthology - Fiction Black Interest Coming Out

Does Your Mama Know? by Lisa C. Moore

Lisa C. Moore | Does Your Mama Know? | A collection of 49 stories, poems, essays and interviews about coming out as a black lesbian.