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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 399
Registered: 04-2006
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Books every Black Person Should Read:
Native Son- Richard Wright
Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
The Miseducation of the Negro- Carter Woodson
Souls of Black Folks- WEB Dubois
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Roots- Alex Haley
A Man in my Basement- Walter Mosley
If Beale Street Could Talk-James Baldwin
Kindred- Octavia Butler
Stolen Woman- Dr. Gail Wyatt
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost- Joan Morgan
The Best Kind of Loving- Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant
The Dew Breaker- Edwidge Danticat
When Rain Clouds Gather-Bessie Head
Hungry for More- Robyn McGee
The Qu'ran
The Bible
Who did I forget?
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8162
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 12:35 am: |
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"The Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.
"Cane" by Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes biographies by Arnorld Rampersad
"There Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Thurston
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 400
Registered: 04-2006
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Are you familiar with a book called PASSING?
It was written around the same time as Cane and TEWWG? (Both excellent)
Can't think of the author... |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8164
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 01:46 am: |
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Nella Larsen is the author "Passing". One of my favorite figures from the Harlem Renassiance. Like so many of the artists during this era she faded into oblivion and ended up leading a solitary life. |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 402
Registered: 04-2006
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Yes, Nella. Passing is still resonate today, I fear.
I took a class on the HR and learned many of the most prominent personalities were rumored to be gay. Some of my classmates took exception to that, but I figured there were probably a lot of creative gay people during that period as there is in Hollywood today.
Langston Hughes is probably the most notable writer from that era, but there so many other great poets, like Countee Cullen and Claude McKay. |
Soul_sister
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Username: Soul_sister
Post Number: 59
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:09 am: |
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hey folks - thought I would chime in
The Street - Ann Petry
Plum Bun - Jessie Fauset
The River Where Blood is Born - Sandra Jackson-Opoku
The Angel of Harlem - Kuwana Haulsey
Pinktoes - Chester Himes
The Color Purple -Alice Walker
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Conjure Man Dies - Rudolph Fisher
Living In Living Out - Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
that is just what I can think about as "important" to me as well as other sisters and brothers -- Max Roderguez (sp) wrote a book on the 100 essential Black titles - and Dorothy Ferebee did a similar work
Finally, I am upset with Oprah's picks - but like any business person cater to your market and her market ain't Black people but white soccer moms - pathetic but true - peace
Soul Sister "-)
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 404
Registered: 04-2006
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^^^
Great list! I am not familiar with Kuwana Hausley or Sandra Jackson-Opoku. Are they American-born authors? |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1857
Registered: 01-2005
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Great lists. I would add some good comprehensive collections of African and African American folktales. We need to ensure our oral traditions continue to survive. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 756
Registered: 09-2004
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I am so PROUD to say I have read 90% of the above lists !
LiLi |
Libralind2
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Post Number: 757
Registered: 09-2004
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I should add I also made sure that my grands also read a lot of those titles and exposed over 1,000 children and adults to those works, through the program we ran (READ) in low income housing.
LiLi |
Schakspir
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Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 949
Registered: 12-2005
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Black Boy--Richard Wright
If He Hollers, Let Him Go--Chester Himes
The Quality of Hurt--Chester Himes
No Name in the Street--James Baldwin
The Street--Ann Petry
The Autumn of the Patriarch--Gabriel Garcia Marquez(far more interesting than One Hundred Years of Solitude, IMO)
Divine Days--Leon Forrest
Tropic of Cancer--Henry Miller
All-Night Visitors--Clarence Major
Journey to the end of the Night--Louis Ferdinand Celine
Hunger--Knut Hamsun
The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born--Ayi Kwei Armah
Why Are We So Blest?--same author
The Wretched of the Earth--Frantz Fanon
Dhalgren--Samuel Delany
For My People--Margaret Walker
The Big Sea--Langston Hughes
Mules and Men--Zora Neale Hurston
Moravagine--Blaise Cendrars
Soul Mountain--Gao Xingjian
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 406
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 01:51 pm: |
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Fascinating list ^^^
Looks like many are non-American born authors, plus I love Samuel Delany. |
Soul_sister
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Username: Soul_sister
Post Number: 60
Registered: 01-2004
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Robynmarie
Kuwana and Sandra are African American people - thanks for asking - I have not read to many foreign Black writers
Schakspir thanks for putting Zora and Langston there I completely forgot them - - Also, the Marquez title sounds great -- Did he write Melancoly Whores? that is on my list
Another author I love is Gabrielle Pina - Chasing Sophea - and Bebe Moore Campbell Your Blues Aint Like Mine
thanks for sharing folks -- I know we can go on for a while that is why I love this page
peace
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 407
Registered: 04-2006
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SS-
I forgot about Bebe Moore Campbell, may she rest.
"What You Owe Me," by BMC was a tour de force. A greater storyteller never lived. "72 Hour Hold" was magnificent also. |
Libralind2
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Post Number: 763
Registered: 09-2004
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I'll tell you a book that caused me to cry for several chapters and that was daughter by asha bandele
LiLi |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 409
Registered: 04-2006
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amen, Daughter was great. Did you read A Prisoners's Wife? Memorable. I wonder if asha is still with her inmate love?? |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 4066
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 03:44 pm: |
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Those are all good lists. |
Libralind2
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Post Number: 764
Registered: 09-2004
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I didnt read A Prisoners wife..yet and I dont know about the imate..maybe I'll look it up LOL
LiLi |
Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 550
Registered: 04-2005
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Hey Robyn, I was in Sandra Jackson -Opoku's workshop @ Hurston/Wright. Nice woman ! She is also the author of Hot Johnny. She is Black. |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 410
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 07:45 pm: |
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Ms. Jackie-
Where is your faves list? LOL.
I was going to ask you about H/W. I know you enjoyed DC, but what did you think of the actual conference? I would like to go but it is $1000. Yikes!!!
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Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 01-2004
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The Outsider, Richard Wright
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
Edwidge Danticat, Farming of Bones
John E. Wideman: Fever, Philadelphia Fire, The Cattle Killing
Randall Robinson: Quitting America, The Debt, The Reckoning, Defending the Spirit
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Classics:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction
C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins
Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Eldridge Cleave, Soul on Ice
Amiri Baraka, Blues People
Assata Shakur, Assata, Autobiography
Angela Davis, An Autobiography
Bobby Seale, Seize the Time
Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power
Ida B.Wells, Crusade for Justice
Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, Black Power
MLK, Where do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community
Constitution [especially before the passing of the 13th amendment].
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Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 411
Registered: 04-2006
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WOW!! I have never read the Constitution! Nor the Declaration of Independence. I am too pitiful. LOL |
Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 551
Registered: 04-2005
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Hi Robyn, the deadline for H/W is April 20th. You gotta apply first. lol. You can also apply for a partial monetary scholarship. |
Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 552
Registered: 04-2005
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The conference was great. It was very imformative and Marita Golden's contributions to panels, etc were extremely helpful. In fact she's having a writing workshop on writing personal memoirs sometime in July.For the last three years the conference has been held @ American University. Howard University was having too many transitions, construction, etc. It was big issue with participants that were staying on campus @ Howard. I stayed off campus. All of the workshop leaders were very helpful and accessible. Edward P Jones was one of their speakers as well. So in other words my experience was fantastic ! |
Robynmarie
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Username: Robynmarie
Post Number: 412
Registered: 04-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 08:41 am: |
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The Number One Ladies Detective Agency is a humorous series, featuring Precious Ramatsue, a Botswana woman who solves local crimes. The author Alexander Smith McCall, describe Precious as a woman of "traditional" size. |
Yukio
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Post Number: 2220
Registered: 01-2004
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the dictionary, strunk and white . . . |
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