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About Courage ~
Mickey C. Fleming
(Paperback - Jan
1989) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ The saga of a child trapped by the
circumstances of his birth and how the city of
Washington, D.C. directed his
upbringing. It is filled with energy, kindness, insight, and laughter, but
strewn with the seeds of social disintegration; an explanation, of the genesis
of the
Black Underclass. An exciting account of how stumbling blocks can be
turned into stepping stones. |
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African Creative Expressions of the Divine ~
Kortright Davis, Elias Farajaje-Jones, and
Iris Eaton
(Paperback
- 1991) ~
Elias Farajaje-Jones (who is Gay), assured me that gay
men and lesbians are an integral and often a very strong part in most African
religions. This book covers African images and religious traditions, as well as
the transported versions that appear in the Western Hemisphere (Santeria
,
Candomble,
Shango,
Voodoo, etc.), and covers the continuing spiritual and
cultural linkages between the two worlds. |
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Ain't I a Woman (Black Women and Feminism) ~ bell hooks
(Paperback
- 1988) |
 Ain't
I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism ~ bell hooks
(Paperback
- Jul 30, 1999) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~
hooks
theorizes on the need for an autonomous movement to support the right of Black
women and to push for change concerning the issues of racism, sexism and
societal oppression that has
victimized Black women historically in this country
since the days of slavery. Black male attitudes of sexist oppression receive
dialogue. |
 All God's Children Need
Traveling Shoes (Vintage)
~ Maya Angelou (Paperback
- Jun 4, 1991) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback,
School & Library Binding |
 The Amen Corner: A Play (Vintage International)
~ James Baldwin (Paperback
- Feb 17, 1998) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Mass Market Paperback,
School & Library Binding ~ Vibrant with the music and energy of
America's black church and bristling with the pain and anger of America's racial
injustice. This is a riveting, unforgettable drama. Razor sharp dialogue peels
away the public image of the charismatic preacher Sister Margaret to display a
wounded woman's heart. |
 American
Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)
~ Sapphire (Paperback
- Jun 18, 1996) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ Through a series of prose and poetry works
she addresses issues of family violence, urban decay, spiritual renewal, the
wilding incident in Central Park as seen through the eyes of the perpetrators,
incest, the Latasha Harlan murder in L.A., and other areas of African American
life today. Her work transcends these harsh realities and finds hope and
inspiration as guiding principles. |
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American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War ~
John C. Fout and
Maura Shaw Tantillo
(Paperback - Jun 15,
1993) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ In this collection of sixteen essays, the
shifting tensions between sexual reform and repression are seen in historical
explorations of men's and women's sexuality, of the sexual-social dynamics of
lesbians and gay men, of the violent repression of
African-American sexuality.
Includes essays ~
Lillian Faderman on the return of the butch-femme,
Arthur Flannigan Saint Aubin on
black gay male discourse and
Katherine Cummings on
teaching AIDS. |
 Another Country (Vintage International)
~ James Baldwin (Paperback
- Dec 1, 1992) Other Edition(s):
Mass Market Paperback,
Audio Cassette,
Unknown Binding ~
Baldwin sets the scenes of his novel
in Manhattan and Harlem. Men and women, Black and white are shed of class, race,
gender, color to reveal raw passion, emotion and sensuality. Considered one of
the most revealing hard core and honest portrayals of urban decadence and
degradation to ever be portrayed especially ~ a Black American author.
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B.B. and the Diva ~
Rupert Kinnard
(Paperback - April 1992) ~ Meet the Brown Bomber, a young
African-American superhero and his best friend, a reincarnated
African-American, lesbonic vegetarian, feminist educator, as they confront
George Bush,
the Pope,
Jesse Helms, and others with an ageless form of therapy
known as slapthology, in this lively antidote to the white world of the Sunday
comics. |
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B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-on-Black Love Story (B-Boy
Blues (Paperback)) ~
James Earl Hardy (Paperback
- Nov 1994 ~ Mitchell Crawford always wished and
dreamed for a Ruffneck, a hip-hop loving, street struttin, crotch grabbin brotha.
And he finally finds one in Raheim Rivers, who is a vision of lust: six feet
tall and 215 pounds of mocha-chocolate muscle. Mitchell know Raheim will take
him for a walk on the wild side, especially between the sheets. But he doesn't
count on getting behind Raheim's mask and finding someone he can love. More
B-Boy Blues. |
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Bailey's Cafe (Vintage Contemporaries)
~ Gloria Naylor (Paperback
- Aug 31, 1993) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback,
Audio Cassette ~ Welcome to the most mythically real
eating place in an urban backwater. It draws a wide variety of customers: Sadie,
addicted to alcohol and cleanliness; Eve, the fresh flower Madame; Peaches, with
the marred face and goddess-like body; Jesse, whose love for a woman cannot
overcome her love of heroine; Miss Maple, the transvestite who enters contests;
and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. |
 The Best of Simple (American Century Series, Ac39)
~ Langston Hughes (Paperback
- Sep 28, 1990) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback |
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series) ~ Langston Hughes and
Arnold Rampersad
(Paperback - Aug 1,
1993) Other Edition(s):
Unknown Binding ~ First volume of his autobiography of his
first thirty years. From his birth in Joplin, MO, his abandonment ~ his father,
the constant moving with his mother, his years at Columbia, the Lincoln
University, living in Paris, and his rise to one of the central figures of
Harlem's Black Renaissance.
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The Black Back-Ups: Poetry ~
Kate Rushin (Paperback
- Mar 1993) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover~ This collection captures the faces,
voices, feelings, words, and stories of an African-American family, people in
the neighborhood and town where she grew up, as well as the people in her life
who have helped to sustain her. |
 Black Book ~ Ntozake Shange and
Robert Mapplethorpe (Hardcover
- Dec 15, 1986) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~ This volume presents an astonishing
photo study of black men today. In their diversity, impact, subtlety, technical
virtuosity, erotic appeal, and deep humanity, this collection is a stunning
celebration of the contemporary
black male.
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Black Butterflies ~
John R. Gordon (Paperback - Aug 1993) ~ Wesley and Floyd were teenage
tearaways in South London, best mates with a strong erotic charge sparking just
below the surface. Floyd's tragic death brought Wesley together with Sharon,
Floyd's girlfriend, each drawn by the other's pain into a marriage based on
illusion and self-deceit. As their relationship fails, Wesley flees and meets
Paul a young painter trying to overcome his white foster parents and cling to
his art. |
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Black Heroes: Seven Plays ~
Errol Hill (Paperback - May 1,
2000) Here for the first time in
one volume are plays--many of which have been unavailable for decades--which
pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from
the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. The full scope of their dramas
becomes a tableau vivante of black history. |
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 Noah's
Arc - The Complete Second Season (DVD)
~
Patrik-Ian Polk (Director DVD),
Jensen Atwood (Wade),
Darryl Stephens (Noah),
Christian Vincent (II) (Ricky),
Jeremy Batiste
(Raphael),
Rodney Chester
(Alex),
Douglas Spearman (Chance),
Jonathan Julian and
Gregory Keith ~
Logo's ground-breaking, one-of-a-kind series
Noah's Arc follows
all four as they chart an uncertain course through the City of Angels, where laughter
and drama are never in short supply. More
Noah's Arc Seasons.
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Black Lesbian in White America ~
Anita Cornwell (Paperback -
Jun 1983) A collection of
writing analyzing racial and sexual oppression from a political perspective.
Written long before current thought. Cornwall is a pioneer. |
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Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography ~
J. R. Roberts (Paperback -
Jun 1981) Categorizes
and describes those books, periodicals, records, and more that make up the core
of the
Black Lesbian experience. A valuable addition to any lesbian library. |
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Black Looks: Race and Representation ~
bell hooks (Paperback
- May 1992) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ In these eleven new
essays, black feminist author
hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and
political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity
with a white supremacists culture. |
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Black Men/White Men: A Gay Anthology ~
Michael J. Smith,
Michael Grumley, and
Sierra Domino
(Paperback - Jul
1999) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ Blacks and whites as friends and lovers. Short stories as well as poems, art,
etc. |
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Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and
Critical Essays ~ John Oliver Killens and
Jerry Washington Ward (Paperback
- Dec 1992 An anthology of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama and critical essays
that celebrates the richly textured black voices of the South, their cadences
steeped in the sonorous heritage of the oral tradition. It is an exciting
collection that brings together dozens of distinguished names from
Zora Neale Hurston to
Nikki Giovanni to
Richard Wright. |
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Black Theology: A Documentary History: Volume Two: 1980-1992 ~
James H. Cone and
Gayraud S. Wilmore
(Paperback - Jun
1993) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ A collection of essays discussing black theology and
spirituality also includes essays about black gays and lesbians,
bisexuality, womanist theology, and other issues of interest today.
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The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya: Quotations ~ Black Women
~
Terri L. Jewell (Paperback
- Oct 1993) Thoughts, observations, viewpoints, songs, poetry, dreams, jazz lyrics, and
proverbs from 350 black women the world over. These women are survivors, rulers,
thinkers, warriors, lovers, and movers and shakers. |
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Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home ~
Margaret Prescod-Roberts (Paperback
- Feb 1980)
From Barbados to Brooklyn from Jamaica to Bristol, two accounts of girlhood in
the West Indies, the upheaval of leaving and the conflicts of being an American
immigrant. |
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Black women talk poetry (Unknown Binding -
1987)
Black Womantalk Publishing Collective proudly presents its first publication, an anthology covering the
works of twenty black women. |
 Blackbird (Little Sister's Classics) ~
Larry Duplechan and
Michael Nava (Paperback
- May 1, 2006) Other Edition(s):
Paperback,
Unknown Binding ~ It was a month to remember for Johnnie
Ray Rousseau, a gay black high school boy: it was the month Todd Waterson,
high-school hero and all-around hunk, got the Baptist minister's daughter
pregnant, the month sweet Cherie Barker, his girlfriend, decided the time had
come for them to make love, the month he met Marshall MacNeill, surely the
sexiest man ever to walk the earth. And, of course, the month of his exorcism. |
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play (Vintage
International) ~ James Baldwin (Paperback
- April 25, 1995) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Mass Market Paperback,
Unknown Binding~ Unforgettable contemporary
drama of murder and palpable racism. Bristles with fierce intensity, love, and
humanity. A piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves. |
 Bom Crioulo ~ Adolfo Caminha
(Paperback
- Mar 31, 2006)
Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin
Boy ~ Adolfo Caminha (Paperback
- Jun 1982) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ First
English translation of a controversial novel tracing the relationship between a
mature black man and a boy of 15, a relationship which develops during their
service in the Brazilian navy of the late 19th century. |
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
~ bell hooks and
Cornel West (Paperback
- May 1991) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover~ In this captivating dialogue,
hooks and
West grapple with the
dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. Creating a
spiritual, progressive, feminist, and ultimately organic definition of Black
intellectuality, they discuss issues ranging from theology and the Left, to
contemporary poplar culture. |
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Brother to Brother: New Writings ~ Black Gay Men
~ Essex Hemphill (Paperback
- Aug 1991), Black men loving Black men is a
call to action... We Take care of our own kind when the night grows cold and
silent.--late editor Joseph Beam. This new anthology of fiction, essays, and
poetry ~ black gay men includes contributions from Assotto Saint, Craig Harris,
Melvin Dixon, Marlon Riggs, and many newer writers. |
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A Burst of Light: Essays ~ Audre Lorde
(Hardcover - Aug
1988) Other Edition(s):
Paperback~
Audre Lorde - black poet, lesbian, and
mother - illuminates living life to the fullest in the presence of death.
Courageous, wise, and once again battling cancer, she uses the dailiness of her
life as the material for her own transformation. |
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The Cancer Journals: The Original Edition
~ Audre Lorde (Paperback
- Jun 1980) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~ Winner:
Gay Book of the Year,
American library Association |
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Captain Swing ~
Larry Duplechan
(Paperback - April
1996) ~ Johnnie Ray Rousseau's life is at
its lowest ebb. The love of his life was killed in a hit-and-run, and now he's
been called to the deathbed of his hateful, homophobic father. There he meets
Nigel, his second cousin, who looks like mortal sin in Levi's and a tank top,
and who offers a love that Johnnie is none too sure he ought to accept. |
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Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best
~ John Henrik Clarke (Library
Binding - Oct 1999) Other Edition(s):
Paperback~ A broad collection of writings including
Zora Neale Hurston,
Langston Hughes,
Richard Wright,
Maya Angelou,
Alice Walker,
James McPherson,
Chester Himes and
Frank Yerby. |
 Ceremonies:
Prose and Poetry ~
Essex Hemphill and
Charles Nero (Paperback - April
2000) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ A collection of prose and poetry exploring the
experience of being a black gay man, Featuring both published pieces and
work that has never before appeared in print, it is the only available
collection of writing ~ one of the gay community's most prominent
artists. |
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Change of Territory ~
Melvin Dixon (Paperback - Jan 1987) Dixon's first book of
poems covers much ground in historical and personal experiences through the
language of exile and return, and a search for love and selfhood. |
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Chemical Dependency and the African American - Second
Edition: Counseling and Prevention Strategies
~
Peter Bell (Paperback - Sep 1,
2002) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ Addiction and community service professionals will
find guidance for working with African-American clients and communities in
this thought-provoking booklet. |
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Children of Apartness ~
Elaine Upton (Paperback - April 1993) a
Baltimore poetess who says she is a lesbian and so is her poetry. |
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The
Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback -
Jan. 29, 2010)
The
Confession