Invisible Man - R. Ellison Native Son - Richard Wright Miseducation of the Negro - Woodson Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B Dubois Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley and Malcolm X Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
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Only criteria - the book is 30 years or older. Hence "settled" and easily obtainable @ most bookstores.
1. "RE: The 'settled' African American Classics" In response to Reply # 0
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf- Ntozake Shange The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman My House - Nikki Giovanni Black Skin White Mask - Frantz Fanon
~MJR~
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.---Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.---Alice Walker
Lactose intolerance is the most common "food allergy," but to call it an allergy is to take a white-centric view that trivializes the fact most of the world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk. Milk does no body good, but for the vast majority of the world's people--people of color--its a public health disaster. No other animal drinks cow's milk, not even calves once they are weaned.---Dr. Shanti Rangwani
Youngin, look here, let me know when you can go into a mainstream bookstore and pick up the book he named, more times than "Wretched of the Earth".
As to why you brought that biographical fact up, I'll chalk it up to you just reading about him in ya classes and deciding to want to impress ya finding upon the folks on this here board.
13. "ehm, i apologize" In response to Reply # 12 Sat Apr-05-03 11:20 PM
After i posted it, wanted to help the post with all i had to share, i saw i shouldnt because of the way it came out.
>As to why you brought that biographical fact up, I'll chalk >it up to you just reading about him in ya classes and >deciding to want to impress ya finding upon the folks on >this here board.
Yeah.. eh, I was suggested to read it by my pops, and was all hyped up by how it was on point with much of what we were discussing on activist, so i posted the part i liked the most, the prologue (because the rest of the book itself was too heavy). I dont remember if i wanted to impress, but i remember i was happy i could share something with the board. Trying to grow on it, even if it was (and is) too advanced for me.
(damn.. i keep saying things that insult people, without intending to do so)
19. "african's CAN'T be included" In response to Reply # 1
"Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe"
i don't think this counts as "black literature" right k'orr?
im suprised you even used the word "african"
"The only thing we wanted for our country was the right to a decent existence, to dignity without hypocrisy , to independence without restrictions... The day will come when history will have its say."-Lumumba
"The only thing we wanted for our country was the right to a decent existence, to dignity without hypocrisy , to independence without restrictions... The day will come when history will have its say."-Lumumba
6. "RE: The 'settled' African American Classics" In response to Reply # 0
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual - Harold Cruse The Street - Ann Petry Their Eyes Are Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson Home to Harlem - Claude McKay Blues People - LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Black Power - Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver Blacks - Gwendolyn Brooks
10. "RE: The 'settled' African American Classics" In response to Reply # 0
cane--jean toomer incidents in the life of a slave girl--harriet jacobs zami--audre lorde brown girl, brownstones, paule marshall clotel--william wells brown plum bun or there is confusion--jessie fauset black no more--george schuyler iola leroy--frances e.w. harper our nig--harriet wilson the complete works--phillis wheatley
frederick douglass--his autobiography and selected speaches a voice from the south--anna julia cooper
i don't know if any of this is "settled", but, you know, i suppose they are some of the more popular books.
----- free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. --marcuse
i love zami so much. i can understand how you can get bored with that part of lorde's life. the second half is quite different. it moves a little more quickly. above all, i have to give the work/lorde so much respect and admiration for doing/creating something that hadn't been in existence before...
i think what's really interesting in the first part are her mother, language, notions of home, and how those permeate the rest of the book.
i just finished rereading it not too long ago, so if you wanna know what i think about certain parts, i'd be happy to discuss them.
(for me though, it's all about sister outsider.) ----- free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. --marcuse
What I liked about the first part was how she was able to render her childhood from the perspective of a little girl, giving it lots of mythological viscera and making it beautiful.
See, some of the second part bored me... until she started sleeping with women.
(in case you don't know, I am not making any silly het boy references... simply, I found it ... special because we have same-sex attractions in common... )
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"When the revolution comes, "faggots" won't be so funny." - The Last Poets
** Most people mis-read this line. I don't think he is being homophobic. I think he's making sure you folks know, within our communities, those of you who laugh at
23. "RE: Zami?" In response to Reply # 20 Tue Apr-08-03 04:46 PM
the first part can be seen as a bit more fascinating than the second. i was a bit disappointed in the fact that lorde sort of leaves the reader up in arms when it comes to her relationship w/ her mother. i was particularly interested in it, and also how the relationship w/ her sisters ended up.
i think part of zami's purpose is to illustrate lorde's efforts to create zami through various relationships w/ women, and to also discover the erotic in everyting that she does. i'm really interested in how her prior biomythography was influenced by and/or was a continuation of her famous essay on uses of the erotic.
but anyway...
sister outsider, well, i just love it.
----- free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. --marcuse
i'd include dust tracks on a road, by hurston price of the ticket-james baldwin here i stand-paul robeson passing-nella larsen sula and the bluest eye-toni morrison sister outsider and black unicorn-audre lorde betsey brown-ntozake shange the dutchman-leroi jones young, gifted and black-lorainne hansberry
The Color Purple Temple of My Familiar Possessing the Secret of Joy -- all by Walker
Other gems like
Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
.... too many books and not enough titles and authors coming together... I'll be back!
Peace,
Q
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"When the revolution comes, "faggots" won't be so funny." - The Last Poets
** Most people mis-read this line. I don't think he is being homophobic. I think he's making sure you folks know, within our communities, those of you who laugh at
we must be on the same wavelength because i was like why is nobody saying MAMA DAY.....oh that is my favorite book....alot of peeps practice things like that, but of course the disparia has us all thinking that traditional african practices are crazy....but gloria can mess with the mind too....oh linden hills had me trippin when she brought the dead baby in after they escaped the basement...but there's one thing i could never figure out....why was Needed putting fish heads in the dead folks mouths...and you know what...when i think about....this book was basically the show SIX FEET UNDER....i loved it....
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