Category: Black Interest

Posted in Black Interest History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now by Reynolds Robert

Reynolds Robert | Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now | Over seventy years, Australia has quietly undergone one of the biggest social revolutions in its history. Once viewed as criminals, sinners or sick, l

Posted in Black Interest Romance

How To Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

How To Find a Princess Alyssa Cole Makeda Hicks has lost her job and her girlfriend in one fell swoop….

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest

Young, Black, And Determined by Pat McKissack; Fredrick McKissack

Pat McKissack; Fredrick McKissack | Young, Black, And Determined | The story of twenty-eight-year-old Chicago-born Lorraine Hansberry, whose 1959 Broadway play skyrocketed her to fame, describes the background of her

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest

To Be Young, Gifted And Black by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scen

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Knowing Women by Serena Owusua Dankwa

Serena Owusua Dankwa | Knowing Women | Knowing Women is an ethnography on friendship, same-sex desire, and intimacy among urban, working-class women in southern Ghana who engage in erotic r

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest

To Be Young, Gifted And Black by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry | To Be Young, Gifted And Black | In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repe

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies by S.N. Nyeck

S.N. Nyeck | Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies | This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories o

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Sexuality

Readings in Sexualities From Africa by Spronk, Rachel; Thomas Hendriks

Spronk, Rachel; Thomas Hendriks | Readings in Sexualities From Africa | Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today’s globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, an

Posted in Black Interest Parenting & Families

The Pregnancy Experiences And Motivations of Young, Black Women Who Have Sex with Women by Sarah J. Reed

Sarah J. Reed | The Pregnancy Experiences And Motivations of Young, Black Women Who Have Sex with Women | [Citations from] Although studs seemingly guided the pregnancy decision-making process, femmes who became pregnant did not see themselves as coerced b

Posted in Black Interest Fiction Religion & Spirituality

Did God Die on the Way to Houston? by David B. Myers

David B. Myers | Did God Die on the Way to Houston? | James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who clai