Liberian Literary Magazine Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
Renaissance, and then from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement, this ambitious, brilliant family witnessed and participated in the most crucial events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Combining personal and national history, The Black Calhouns is a unique and vibrant portrait of six generations during dynamic times of struggle and triumph.
continues to offer crucial lessons for today’ s world. This vital primer amply fulfills Branch’ s dedication:“ For students of freedom and teachers of history.”
A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
By Mireille Miller-Young
an improvised line— as small acts of resistance, of what she calls " illicit eroticism." Building on the work of other black feminist theorists, and contributing to the field of sex work studies, she seeks to expand discussion of black women ' s sexuality to include their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation and representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints, recognized as their own.
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement – by Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize – winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and
A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on representations of black women ' s sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young ' s extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their thoughts about desire and eroticism, black women ' s sexuality and representation, and ambition and the need to make ends meet. Miller- Young documents their interventions into the complicated history of black women ' s sexuality, looking at individual choices, however small— a costume, a gesture,
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography( Next Wave: New Directions in Women ' s Studies by Jennifer Christine Nash
In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism ' s theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism ' s preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions
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