Opening Minds, Improving Live: Education And Women's Empowerment In Honduras

Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "open" her mind. Living ...

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Doom Fox by Iceberg Slim and Ice T

Doom Fox is the last in Iceberg Slim's legendary series of underground novels. Written in 1978 and unpublished until now, Doom Fox is...

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Shetani's Sister by Iceberg Slim

From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in ...

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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this n...

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Airtight Willie & Me by Iceberg Slim

In this collection of six gritty tales from the underground, Iceberg Slim creates a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to surv...

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Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim

Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes o...

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Trick Baby by Iceberg Slim

This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in south side Chicago where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned...

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Death Wish: A Story of the Mafia by Iceberg Slim

This is the story of Chicago’s ruthless and tireless mafia. The intensely real characters, the brutal overlords, their faithful lackeys a...

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Mother to Mother

Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a lif...

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Freshwater Road

When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer with the Civil Rights movement, she's assigned...

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Magical Realism in West African Fiction

This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its ...

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The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950

Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books linin...

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Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature

Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given cons...

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Chronicles of a confirmed bachelorette by Erica Mena

Some people have asked me how could I want a woman and a man. Some have called me greedy and some have called me confused. But I asked why...

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Underneath It All - Erica Mena

I've gotten used to living behind mirrors and smoke screens, it's easier to portray an image for the world to see. When I m alone ...

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The Afro-American Novel & It's Tradition

Civil rights advances in the last 25 years have included an awareness that the traditional canon of American literature excluded important...

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The Book of Negroes

Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves...

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The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel

In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The S...

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Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women's Novels

Africanism and Authenticity traces the continuing influence of West African women's traditions and societies on late-twentieth-century...

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Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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