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Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future | Shaun King

I follow Shaun King on social media and pre ordered this book months ago. I‘m so happy it arrived! #bethechange

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Lakewood: A Novel | Megan Giddings

Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation—part The Handmaid‘s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. ⬇️
#ReadBlackAuthors #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #BeTheChange

JoScho When Lena Johnson‘s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. 5y

JoScho On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program—and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. 5y

JoScho The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world—but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she‘s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family.
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JoScho Provocative and thrilling, Lakewood is a breathtaking novel that takes an unflinching look at the moral dilemmas many working-class families face, and the horror that has been forced on black bodies in the name of science. 5y

Prairiegirl_reading I have this on my wish list! 5y

JoScho @Prairiegirl_reading me too! It sounds fantastic 🖤 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage This was a good book, but the ending seemed a little too predictable. Still, it‘s an important topic. 5y

EKonrad Loved this one! 5y

JoScho @BarbaraTheBibliophage 🖤 5y

JoScho @EKonrad oh good to know 🖤 5y

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston

Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. ⬇️
#ReadBlackAuthors #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BeTheChange

JoScho In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. 5y

JoScho Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. 5y

JoScho Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston‘s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston‘s world. 5y

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JoScho All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer‘s voice and her contributions to America‘s literary traditions. 5y

S3V3N I was able to download this today. The stories are great. I‘m almost done with it. 5y

JoScho @BeaG yay! 5y

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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness | Austin Channing Brown

#BlackLivesMatter #ReadBlackAuthors #BetheChange

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F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me | Chlo� Hilliard

Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body. ⬇️
#readblackauthors #blacklivesmatter #blm #bethechange

JoScho By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12—both shoe and dress—and stood over six feet tall. Fitting in was never an option. That didn‘t stop her from trying. Cursed with a “slow metabolism,” “baby weight,” and “big bones,”—the fat trilogy—Chloe turned to fad diets, starvation, pills, and workouts, all of which failed. 5y

JoScho Realizing that everything—from government policies to corporate capitalism—directly impacts our relationship with food and our waistlines, Chloé changed her outlook on herself and hopes others will do the same for themselves.

The perfect mix of cultural commentary, conspiracies, and confessions, F*ck Your Diet pokes fun at the all too familiar, misguided quest for better health, permanent weight loss, and a sense of self-worth. 5y

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot | Mikki Kendall

Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. ⬇️

JoScho All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. 5y

JoScho How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? #blacklivesmatter #blm #bethechange #readblackauthors 5y

hermyknee I‘ve been wanting to read this one! 5y

JoScho @hermyknee me too! I have it on hold at the library. 5y

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A Lucky Man: Stories | Jamel Brinkley

Sharing books by black authors during the month of July. I will add the synopsis from Goodreads below and in the comments.
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past.
#ReadBlackAuthors #BlackLivesMatter #BeTheChange

JoScho An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J‘Ouvert can‘t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. 5y

JoScho A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. 5y

JoScho Jamel Brinkley‘s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class―where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. 5y

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