Colorado State Library Bookclub Resource

The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America

"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical...

When she chooses love over loyalty and runs off with Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of the next big score, Raven Atkins, the daughter of a drug kingpin, has no one to turn to when Mizan starts using her as a punching bag.

In her memoir Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped herf́rom her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the worldś most famous address. She describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived itín her own words and on her own terms.

"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.

"A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"--Provided by publisher.

The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized...

"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...

With insight and passion, Bell Hooks challenges the way that the focus of masculine identity has emerged as the critics' favoured answer to the crisis of black politics.