Negroland
by Margo Jefferson | 
The Cost of Living
by Deborah Levy | 
How We Fight for Our Lives
by Saeed Jones | 
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow |
Colored People
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Unafraid of the Dark
by Rosemary L. Bray | 
Heavy
by Kiese Laymon |
Black Notebooks
by Toi Derricotte | 
Black White and Jewish
by Rebecca Walker |
Black Ice
by Lorene Cary |
Life on the Color Line
by Gregory Howard Williams | 
Lost In Place
by Mark Salzman | 
Giving Up the Ghost
by Hilary Mantel |
Borrowed Finery
by Paula Fox | 
The Women Who Raised Me
by Victoria Rowell |
We Real Cool
by Bell Hooks |
Talking Back
by Bell Hooks | 
Teaching Community
by Bell Hooks | 
Teaching Critical Thinking
by Bell Hooks | 
My Life on the Road
by Gloria Steinem |
Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman's color--worn when earned--daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. hooks finds good company in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is her most vital breath.