Well-Read Black Girl : Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)

from m.belljackson

WELL-READ BLACK GIRL offers a unique approach to sharing outstanding African American literature written by women. Influential books open with new and inspiring messages of hope, love, determination, courage, and respect for open-minded readers of every race, ethnicity, and gender. This will be a...

from sweeks1980

"Well-Read Black Girl" packs a lot into a relatively small space, and the result is a book that seems deceptively simple at first glance. The text anthologizes 21 essays by and conversations with contemporary black female writers on the books that inspired and continue to inspire them. The contri...

from justagirlwithabook

Well-Read Black Girl is a small book, but don't be misled! It's filled with beautiful selections from Black female authors that have played an important role in Black women's lives (especially in the author Glory Edim's life) and who are responsible for laying the groundwork for a cultural shift ...

from BookDivasReads

I've been trying to find something more to say than "I love this book" but that pretty much sums it up." The poem "won't you celebrate with me'' by Lucille Clifton followed by the introduction by Glory Edim are more than enough to get the reader (of any color or gender) in the right frame of mind...

from bluepigeon

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves is an anthology of essays by black writers, journalists, and activists about being readers, lovers of books, and finding themselves in literature that inspired their lives. The anthology is more about these women's experiences as re...