no not really. i am actually that kid in your middle school who’d read the most books to get the savings bond, sell the most tshirts to get a prize, get all As to go to fun fun fun, the list goes on and on…
so when seeing the LJ community 50Books_POC on sparkymonster’s page, of course i’m naturally drawn in…
looking at my bookshelf (about two rows of books), only 7 are written by people of color. i am excited to go on this journey of learning and self-reflection.
the books by poc [people of color] i’ll finish reading this weekend
(1) This Bridge Called My Back anthologized by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
(2) The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke
please let me know if you have any book recommendations : )
5 Comments
April 19, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Thanks for the link, that lj community looks super interesting.
April 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm
um, omg yes.
is it any genre?
loving in the war years - cherrie moraga
blues legacies and black feminisms - angela davis
the god of small things - arundhati roy (and anything else she’s ever written)
the INCITE anthology
earth democracy - vandana shiva
miracle fruit - aimee nezhukumatathil
century of the wind - eduardo galeano
caramelo - sandra cisneros
loveliest grotesque - sandra lim
don’t let me be lonely - claudia rankine
sleeping with the dictionary - harryette mullen
btw, i tagged you for a six-word memoir.
April 20, 2008 at 5:58 pm
ahh! thanks for the recs, will definitely have to add them to my excel sheet of summer reading lol : )
i looked at the meme and DAMN you’re going to make me think huh? couldn’t just ask me to tell 7 embarrassing secrets or something, eh??!?
April 20, 2008 at 11:17 pm
oh my…anything by chrystos…seriously…first nations queer crip poverty class poet like no other.
my favorite book is “firepower”.
yes.
April 21, 2008 at 9:25 am
Anything by Alice Walker. And Rebecca Walker. I’m currently re-reading a novel by Bem Le Hunte “The Seduction of Silence”. If I start listing title though… it’d be a mile long. You’ve made a great start! Oh, did you finish “Conquest”?
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