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Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems
~
June Jordan (Paperback - Oct 1989)
This collection is the definitive anthology of work by Jordan, compiling
poetry from nearly 20 years - including over 50 poems published in the U.S.
for the first time. Empathetic to all it encounters, her poetry is a deeply
personal music sounded in response to universal concerns. She addresses
racism, oppression, and dispossession with a call for justice and for sensitivity
to our world. |
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Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women
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Cheryl Clarke (Paperback - Jun 1983)
A gallery of incisive, specific portraits of black women, whose lives, as
June Jordan states, are honestly perceived
with a clearly hard-working respect and without affectation. Clarke considers
her black, lesbian, and feminist identities to be the filter of her imagination. |
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Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices : Pin (Freedom Organizing
Series, #6) ~
Audre Lorde (Paperback - April 1991)
Poetic response to the murder of 12 black women in Boston that was met with
racism, sexism and indifference. The poem challenges both men and women
to confront on going realities of violence against women of color. More
from the
Freedom Organizing Series |
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Language Is Neutral ~
Dionne Brand (Paperback - Oct 24, 1998)
Elegiac in tone, these poems by the author of
Sans Souci: And Other Stories give
full vent to her feelings as a
Black Lesbian in a world dominated
by white, heterosexual males. |
 No
Name in the Street ~
James Baldwin (Mass Market Paperback
- Jan 1, 1986) Other Edition(s):
Unknown Binding ~ Vivid personal document of the turbulent sixties
and early seventies during which time
Baldwin saw the murder of
Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X, went to Europe and Hollywood
and returned to the American South to confront a violent America face to
face. |
 Nobody
Knows My Name ~
James Baldwin (Paperback - Aug 29,
1991) Other Edition(s):
Paperback,
Mass Market Paperback ~ Sparkling prose and intelligence illuminate
the American consciousness. Literary and social history with immeasurable
significance for our society and our hearts. Describes
Baldwin's Harlem childhood, makes
a startling assessment of
Norman Mailer, and looks back with
pain at his alienation of
Richard Wright. |
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Notes of a Native Son ~
James Baldwin |
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Notes of a Native Son ~
James Baldwin (Unknown Binding - 1955)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback,
Unknown Binding |
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Notes of a Native Son ~
James Baldwin (Mass Market Paperback
- 1968) |
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Now Sheba Sings the Song ~
Maya Angelou and
Tom Feelings (Hardcover - Aug 10, 1987)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~ A new edition of the seamless collaboration between
renowned poet Angelou and award-winning illustrator
Tom Feelings, combines verse and sepia-toned
illustrations in a beautiful paean to Black women. With a deep admiration,
it celebrates the extraordinary ordinary women, their beauty, their presence,
and their inner strength. |
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On Call
~
June Jordan (Paperback - Oct 1985)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover |
 On
the Pulse of Morning ~
Maya Angelou (Paperback - Feb 23, 1993)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Audio Cassette. The inaugural poem the author wrote and read. |
 Our
Dead Behind Us: Poems ~
Audre Lorde (Paperback - Aug 1994)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~ A reprint of the classic collection of poetry. In this
collection Audre gave us poems that explored differences as creative tensions,
and the melding past strength, pain with future hope, fear; the present
being the vital catalyst, the motivating force. |
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Out! to Lead ~
Gideon Ferebee (Paperback - Jul 1994)
Ferebee does more than explain and define the historical and current paranoia
of our homophobic society as created and perpetuated by the dominant white
male infrastructure. Initially, one senses his deep anger and frustration,
as an African American homosexual, at a system which essentially aims to
eliminate his kind. However, as his ideas unfold, he precisely and logically
exposes the blatant and subtle hypocrisies inherent in every stratum of
American society. |
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Panther & the Lash (Vintage Classics) ~
Langston Hughes (Paperback - Feb 4,
1992)Other Edition(s):
Unknown Binding ~ Hughes' last collection of poems explicitly addresses
the racial politics of the 1960's. They are a lasting testament of a
Great
American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with most compelling
issues of his time. |
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PERVERSIONS
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Roy Gonsalves |
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Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology
~
Makeda Silvera (Paperback - Dec 1991)
Stories, poetry, essays, interviews and photographs are combined in this
anthology of lesbians of color. It is uncompromising in it's honest. At
times humorous, angry, confrontational, erotic and celebratory in it's style,
the lives of women out an coming out are revealed. |
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Poems ~
Maya Angelou (Paperback - Sep 1996)
Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling
are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a born
writer's senses nourished on black church singing and preaching, soft mother
talk, and salty street talk, and on literature. - The
New York Times Book Review |
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
~
Alice Walker (Paperback - Jan 1, 1997)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Mass Market Paperback,
Audio Cassette,
Unknown Binding ! The story of Tashi Johnson, a tribal African woman
who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided
loyalty to the customs of her people led her to submit to the tsunga's knife
and be genitally mutilated (circumcised). Traumatized ~ this experience
she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying desperately through
psychoanalysis to regain the ability to recognize her own reality. |
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Prescription for Preventing AIDS: Cure the Body Politic of Prejudice (The
Politics of Aids, Vol 3) ~
Neal Arthur Dickerson (Paperback -
April 1993) ~ This is volume 3 from a six-volume study. This book contains
essays on the price of prevention, the politics of prevention, sex-positive
prevention programs, HIV prevention and prophylactics, HIV, adolescents,
and AIDS education, gay youth and men, Hispanic and HIV, women and reality,
HIV in IVDUs and needle exchange, and African-Americans and HIV. |
 Presenting...Sister
No Blues ~
Hattie Gossett (Paperback - Oct 1988)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ A collection of highly spiced writings detailing the
downs and ups of a mature Black urban member of the wild wimmins clan as
she ekes out a living as a cleaning person, bar waitress, office temp, foiling
the unwanted advances and criminal withholdings of landlords, bosses, lovers
and others in the urban jungle. |
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A Queer Kind of Death (Repr ed) (Alyson Classics Library)
~
George Baxt (Paperback - Jul 1998)
Other Edition(s):
Paperback,
Unknown Binding ~ Originally published in 1966, this mystery has
become a modern classic, forerunner to a whole slew of whodunnits. A young
actor is found dead in his bath, and NYPD Detective Pharoah Love, a black
gay man, steps in to quell the intrigue. More
Alyson Classics Library. |
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Queer Kind of Love: A Pharoah Love Mystery (Stonewall Inn Mysteries)
~
George Baxt (Paperback - Aug 1995)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ Black gay detective Pharoah Love returns and he's up
to his earring in murder! In little Italy someone is murdering members of
the Capesi crime family and Vinnie Sasso, Pharoah's friend, suspects its
not a simple family matter. On the trail of a killer and a teenage gang
of carjackers, Pharoah finds himself in the position of helping a mafioso
he would just as soon see behind bars. More
Stonewall Inn Mysteries |
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Racism 101 ~
Nikki Giovanni (Paperback - May 1995)
Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~This book indicts higher education for the inequities
it perpetuates, contemplates the legacy of the 60's, provides a survival
guide for black students on predominately white campuses, and denounces
Spike Lee while offering her own ideas for a film about
Malcolm X. |
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Radical Perversions: Black Friday?/Claposis
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Audrey Butler (Paperback - 1991) Butler,
a born-again Cape Bretoner now living in Toronto, is skilled at writing
about the humor and complexity in relationships between lovers, close friends
and community. |
 Render
Me My Song ~
Sandi Russell (Paperback - Oct
2001) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback,
Unknown Binding ~ In the last decade, black women writers
have come into their own; their voices resonate throughout the world.
This is the story of the epic struggle of these women to recover their
voice and spirit from a past that reached into and through slavery. |
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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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RESISTING RACISM: AN ACTION GUIDE;
ed.
Mallon, Gerald L ~ This manual
to help the gay and lesbian community explore the issue of racism is
divided into four parts: workshop outlines, resource material, essays,
and bibliographies. The guide provides the reader with NABWMT's position
on racism, bar discrimination, and the importance of multi-culturalism
in our gay and lesbian society.
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RITUALS ~
Craig Hickman; This book brings
together musical verse, unabashed autobiographical writing, short
fiction, and seering commentary on being Black and gay in America today.
The result is a celebration of life, the trials and tribulations and the
triumphs. The author is a writer/performer/ artist and lives in
Cambridge, MA. |
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The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets
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Assoto Saint ~ 100 Black gay
poets explore every aspect of Black gay life: from tradition to
alienation, from the fierce gender bending vogue culture to defiant sex
and love in the age of AIDS, from historical and political perspectives
to personal reflections of future paths. Poets include:
Melvin Dixon,
Essex Hemphill,
Roy Gonsalves,
Andre De Shields,
Donald Woods, etc.
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Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles ~
Nikki Giovanni (Paperback
- May 1989) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ In this collection
of autobiographical essays and articles,
Nikki Giovanni, our most widely read
living black poet, takes on some lofty institutions and major life crises and
clearly comes out the winner. This is triumphant prose with all the gritty
reality of Giovanni's best poetry.
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The Sanctified Church ~
Zora Neale Hurston (Paperback - Feb 1998) Now back in print,
Church
brings together Hurston's most famous essays on Afro-American folklore and
legend, and the voodoo base to southern black folk religion. |
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Sans Souci: And Other stories
by
Dionne Brand (Paperback -
Oct 1989) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~ Born in the Caribbean and
living in Toronto for the past eighteen years, Brand presents her first book for
the U.S., a beautiful collection of short stories. |
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Say Jesus and Come to Me ~
Ann Allen Shockley (Paperback
- April 1987) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ Evangelist Myrtle Black
holds a powerful sway over her following who do not suspect she is a lesbian.
She meets Travis Lee, a successful fast-lane singer, in town for a recording
session. To love each other is the ultimate jeopardyTravis's career is at risk,
and Myrtle must finally come to terms with the contradictions between her
ministry and her lesbian identity.
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Schwarz / Black / Noir (German / English / French) : Photographs ~ Norman
Hatton ~
Norman Hatton (Author) (Hardcover - Aug 1994) Acclaimed Canadian photographer
Hatton focuses his lens on the beauty of black men in this new collection of
black and white pictures.
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Stephen Jonas Selected Poems ~
Stephen Jonas and Joseph Torra (Paperback
- May 1994) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ Since his death in 1970 the man and
his work have become legendary. This book brings together an extensive selection
of previously unpublished work together with the complete Exercises for Ear,
Jonas's best known book. With a biographical and critical introduction by the
editor Joseph Torra. |
 Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage
Classics) ~ Langston Hughes (Paperback
- Sep 12, 1990) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback,
School & Library Binding,
Unknown Binding |
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Seraph on the Suwanee ~
Zora Neale Hurston
(Paperback - Jan 16,
1991) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Library Binding |
 Serpent's
Gift ~
Helen Elaine Lee
(Paperback - Oct
1, 1995) A first novel from a local lesbian
writer. Central to this haunting novel are the mothers, a study in contrast in
strength and rigidity, Ruby Staples and Eula Smalls, and their children: LaRue
Smalls, adventurer and chronicler of his people, his sister Vesta, intimidated
by life yet determined to hold her family together, and Ouida Staples, a rare
beauty who spends her life with another woman. |
 Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas
~ Maya Angelou (Paperback
- Sep 2, 1993) |
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Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) ~ Audre Lorde
(Paperback -
April 1984) Other Edition(s):
Unknown Binding ~ Covering eight of
this
Black Lesbian feminist poet's nonfiction work, here is a collection of
essays and theory that speak to our struggles in the modern voice. Includes
Poetry is Not a Luxury, Uses of the Erotic, and Sexism: An American Disease in
Blackface.
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Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
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Charlotte Watson Sherman (Paperback
- Aug 1994) Other Edition(s):
Library Binding ~ A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems
by some
of today's most notable authors including
Maya Angelou,
Alice Walker,
Gloria Naylor,
Sonia Sanchez,
Ntozake Shange and many others speak directly to the
lives and concerns of African-American women in the nineties. |
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, South End Press Classics
Edition (South End Press Classics Series)
~ bell hooks (Paperback
- Jan 1, 2005) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Paperback ~
hooks
politicizes the issue of self-recovery ~ making the connection between our
individual efforts to be self-actualized and collective liberation struggles.
Tackling such issues as addiction, violence, spirituality, erotic experience,
community activism and others. She shares numerous strategies for self-recovery
that can heal individuals and empower effective struggles against racism.
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Slavesong: The Art of Singing (Paperback) ~
Kwelismith (aka
Kweli Smith)by these poems sing. In them
we hear the mythic heart beat under the rhythm of the slave's song: the
spiritual jazz, rhythm & blues, rock 'n' roll and even rap. They dig down and
release the voice of humor, pain and longing held in bondage in all of our Black
souls.
Toi Derricotte, poet
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Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS, Other Countries Volume II
(Volume 2) ~
B. Michael Hunter (Paperback - 1993) A
powerful collection of poetry, essays, letters, artwork and prose by black gay
writers who evoke the full range of human emotions through this passionate, life
affirming document. Melvin Dixon, Donald Woods, Assotto Saint,
David Frechette,
Craig Harris and others confront the realities of
AIDS,
racism and
homophobia. |
 Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ~
Cyrus Cassells (Paperback
- Jul 1, 1994) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover ~ Enriched both
mythologically and experientially by his own world travels, he draws with equal
ease from classical Greek myth, children's rhymes, and African American oral
traditions. The result is often hypnotic and rhapsodic interweaving dramatic
narratives forming a single whole. Unflinching in its examinations of the
Holocaust and
AIDS, remarkable in its challenge to received notions of triumph
and survival this book is a virtuoso performance.
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Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston
~
Zora Neale Hurston (Paperback
- Dec 1997) Other Edition(s):
Paperback ~ This now famous collection of the best of Hurston's short stories, many
of which are collected here for the first time, focuses on the rural Black
community of Batonville, Florida, and on Harlem during the height of the
Renaissance, forming a magnificent legacy from a writer whose work has sparked
one of the major literary revivals of our time.
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Stations: Poems ~
Assotto Saint (Paperback - Feb
1989) Saint, whose work has appeared in
Tongues Untied,
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology,
Other Countries: Black Gay Voices,
THE JAMES WHITE REVIEW, and numerous other publications, here presents a poetry
cycle which traces two gay men's interracial love through the 80's and beyond.
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Strange Brother (Homosexuality) ~
Blair Niles (Hardcover - Jun 2002) Other Edition(s):
Hardcover,
Unknown Binding ~ Originally published in 1931, this was one of the
first novels to prominently feature a gay male as lead character. Mark
Thornton is drawn to the jazz and exotic life in Harlem. His black friends
offer him a temporary respite from his world of homosexuality. As the summer
wears on, he soon reveals himself, and his new identity begins to close in
on him. |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (Pharoah Love Mystery #2) ~
George Baxt (Paperback - April
1987) Other Edition(s):
Mass Market Paperback,
Unknown Binding
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Pharoah Love Mystery |
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The
Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback -
Jan. 29, 2010)
The
Confession