Reading

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Black Women and Spirituality

Suggested Reading List

  • Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo- Ntozake Shange

  • Paradise- Toni Morrison

  • The Salt-Eaters- Toni Cade Bambara

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies- Deesha Philyaw

Black Feminisms

Suggested Reading List

  • Black Feminist Thought- Patricia Hill Collins

  • Combahee River Collective Statement

  • All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave- Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith

  • The Source of Self-Regard- Toni Morrison

  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America- Melissa Harris-Perry

  • Black Cool- Rebecca Walker

  • Citizen- Claudia Rankine

  • Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center- bell hooks

Major Authors: Toni Morrison

Suggested Reading List

  • The Bluest Eye

  • Jazz

  • God Help the Child

  • Desdemona

Current Selection

College English I

Major Authors: Toni Morrison

Black American Literature

“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou