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The Intersectionality Wars

By Jane Coaston — 2019

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

Read on www.vox.com

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Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding

A timely and important compilation of first-person accounts by black men—including some famous like Russell Simmons, Rev.

Ben Jealous (editor), Trabian Shorters (editor), Russell Simmons (foreword)

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African American Artist Illustrates the Power of Black Women | NowThis

Artist Jamilla Okubo is using her craft to illustrate the power of Black women. Raised in Washington DC, Jamilla Okubo uses her art to give a positive visual representation of Black women. Okubo is vocal about empowering women because of her upbringing.

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Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller Words of Fire Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and...

Briona Simone Jones (editor)

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

Stephanie Y. Evans

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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability.

Stephanie Y. Evans (editor), Nsenga K. Burton (editor), Kanika Bell (editor)

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Women, Race & Class

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

Angela Y. Davis

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women.

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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page.

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The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman’s Guide Through Life’s Dilemmas

Is it the job you hate but need in order to pay the rent? Is it that relationship that you gave your all to only to end up with a broken heart...again? Perhaps it’s your children, a family member, or a life-long friend doing you in, dragging you down, pushing you to the brink.

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