Sunday, May 01, 2005

a top ten springtime reading list for blackgrrls everywhere

  1. Niggers, This Is Canada by Odimumba Kwamdela
  2. Tell The Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law -- An American History by Peter Wallenstein
  3. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday by Angela Davis
  4. Black Women of the Old West by William Loren Katz
  5. Wishing On The Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday by Donald Clarke
  6. Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie-Mae Washington-Williams
  7. Why Must A Black Writer Write About Sex?
  8. ...and of course How To Make Love To A Negro (Without Getting Tired) both by Dany Laferriere
  9. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  10. Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

cool, glad danny made it on there. whyn't ya tell me you got a blog?

how's things?

Queen Esther said...

everything is exploding right now, like a blooming tree. i like your blog, it's very you. when are you coming to nyc again?