charlo rated Borderlands/La Frontera: 5 stars
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in …
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charlo rated World According to Fannie Davis: 4 stars
charlo rated Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 5 stars
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology …
charlo rated Bastard out of Carolina: 5 stars
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with her new husband and will …
charlo rated Looking for Lorraine: 5 stars
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the …
charlo rated Brilliant imperfection: 5 stars
charlo rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 4 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
charlo rated Syzygy, beauty: 5 stars
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An …
charlo rated Love Is a Mix Tape: 4 stars
charlo rated Notes from No Man's Land: 5 stars
charlo rated Household workers unite: 4 stars
Household workers unite by Premilla Nadasen
"Premilla Nadasen recounts in this powerful book a little-known history of organizing among African American household workers. She uses the …
Afterglow by Eileen Myles
The author writes an account of her relationship with her pit bull Rosie. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, …
charlo rated We Both Laughed In Pleasure: 5 stars
