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Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton

Generations: A Memoir

Lucille Clifton

79 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

No Longer at Ease

The African Trilogy #2

Chinua Achebe

148 pages • first pub 1960 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed by Sarah J. Robbins, Hawa Abdi

Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

Sarah J. Robbins, Hawa Abdi

246 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction feminism history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

214 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Heads of the Colored People

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
fiction contemporary literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Party Girl: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him by Nadifa Mohamed

Party Girl: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

Nadifa Mohamed

17 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
informative reflective medium-paced
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library by Glory Edim

On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library

Glory Edim

200 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
fiction literary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves

The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

Jaime Amparo Alves

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

109 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0axmed's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced