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I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

James Baldwin, Raoul Peck

144 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour by Ruby Hamad

White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour

Ruby Hamad

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

268 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Emma Dabiri

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

372 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Emily Bernard

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction autobiography essays literary memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Samantha Irby

275 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir funny lighthearted medium-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

192 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

21 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0b_swax's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced