 | The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color among African Americans by Kathy Russell
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £1.85 A real in depth study into the intra racial politics that exist among African Americans and in turn black people worldwide.
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 | Cane River (Oprah's book club) by Lalita Tademy
Buy used from: £0.01 One of my favourites, I couldn't put it down and have since passed it on. The charcters from the slave block to freedom really come to life.
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 | Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £1.00 Highly reccomend this one. Explores the psyche of mixed race children and is a tale that black and whites can relate to from different angles.
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 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (Women's Press Classics) by Alice Walker
Buy used from: £2.20 Good thought provoking essays that explore race and gender.
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 | In the Belly of the Beast by ABBOTT
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.92 Writings from a prisoner. It is always facinating to gain insight into a world you are so alien from.
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 | Do or Die: For the First Time, Members of America's Most Notorious Gangs - the Crips and the Bloods - Speak for Themselves by Leon Bing
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £0.90 Bloods and Crips shooting each other. I loved it
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 | Have Gun Will Travel: Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records by Ronin Ro
Buy new: £9.29 / Used from: £1.41 As a Tupac fan, this as a must for me.
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 | Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Buy new: £12.15 / Used from: £1.76 Too many brilliant poems to mention. slam poetry that slaaaams!
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 | The Masses are Asses (Green Integer Books) by Pedro Pietri
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.48 Very witty play and easy to read, will keep you laughing. Must read Puerto Rican obituary too.
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 | Simple Justice by Richard Kluger
Buy used from: £1.93 the study of one of the most significant racial landmarks of recent years. a must if you are into civil rights cases.
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 | The Hot House: Life inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley
Buy new: £5.16 / Used from: £1.75 A prison riot takes place. Lots violence, blood and death, if you are into that sort of thing
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 | Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by J Gamson
Buy new: £16.63 / Used from: £8.81 Sexual non conformists and the talk show circuit. Very Jerry Sringer!
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 | Eight Ball Chicks by Gini Sikes
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £4.99 #introduction to the world of girl gangs. I quite enjoyed it even though some of the "gangster" were a bit lame!
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 | The Slave Girl (African Writers Series) by Buchi Emecheta
Buy used from: £1.22 Beautifully written and moving ttale about a girl who is sold to be a slave.
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 | Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written short stories revoving around Indians in America and being torn between 2 cultures. I reccomend all her books.
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 | On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men by James L. King
Buy used from: £1.51 "Straight" men doing men...Interesting.
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 | Black and Blue (Oprah's Book Club) by Anna Quindlen
Buy used from: £0.01 An engrossing story about a woman on the run from an abusive husband
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 | No Ways Tired: The Public Historically Black College Dilemma by Kyra M. Grimes-Robinson
Buy new: £12.37 / Used from: £4.24 Examines the pros and cons of Historically Black Colleges.
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 | Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write about Race
Buy new: £10.38 / Used from: £0.25 If you buy this read the poem white girl. I love Marita golden
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 | Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex by Marita Golden
Buy used from: £1.19 Find out why she was told not to play inthe sun
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 | The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
Buy used from: £10.18 Explores homosexuality in black communities, from pre colonial times in Africa to African american churches.
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 | Def Poetry Jam on Paper by Simmons
Buy new: £10.92 / Used from: £4.68 not the same as watching it live on Broadway but good nonetheless.
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 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 I love Moore and I love this book, much better than"Dude where's my car"
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 | The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.75 Beautifully written. you are drawn into Pecola's world where she dreams about having blue eyes like the white girls around her.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.89 Holden kinda reminds me of myself, maybe thats why I liked it.
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