Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful stories collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression.
Black Authors
Collection of titles by Black Authors. Titles include Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Books, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Plays and more!
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Author:Wright, RichardSummary: - Author:ZaneSummary:
Mega bestselling author Zane returns to the world of her hugely popular novels Addicted and Nervous in this dark and exhilarating follow-up featuring a beautiful but emotionally damaged pop star desperate and determined to enact revenge...
- Author:Mda, ZakesSummary:
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit,...
- Author:Johnson, T. GeronimoSummary:
Born and raised in the tiny town of Braggsville, Georgia, D'aron Davenport finds himself in unfamiliar territory his freshman year at UC Berkeley. A disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends who descend on Braggsville...
- Author:Octavia, GraceSummary:
Rachel Winslow is a successful Atlanta wedding planner still searching for true love. When her longtime best friend Ian breaks the news that he's getting married, Rachel realizes the depth of her feelings for him. Ian complicates...
- Author:Day, ZuriSummary:
Following a steamy European encounter, Tiffany Matthews is now working as a sous chef at wealthy businessman Dominick Rollins' prestigious L.A. restaurant. Tiffany tries to keep her new boss at arm's length, but soon she surrenders to...
- Author:Poole, Daaimah S.Summary:
Adrienne Sheppard isn't raking it in as an NFL star's baby mama, so she's looking to get wifed. Zakiya Lee is pregnant by the NBA's hottest new player, but fame is wearing her out. And sports reporter Cherise Long has a pro athlete...
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Starting a new life in the Thank the Lord Boarding House, a place that houses "misguided souls," Jolene discovers that she is not alone when she meets Richard Peterson, a high-powered businessman disillusioned by romance and material...
- Author:McMillan, TerrySummary:
After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams-all while...
- Author:Goines, DonaldSummary:
Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends, and he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-...
- Author:Davis, Angela Y.Summary:
Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably...
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