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1	Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide Through Life's Dilemmas more books like this by Iyanla Vanzant add to wishlist A self-help guide written especially for black women, "The Value in the Valley" breaks through the self-destructive belief that suffering or unhappiness is deserved, and guides readers from "valley experiences" through what may seem like insurmountable problems, and it teaches the skills necessary to move beyond them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Sally Hemings more books like this by Barbara Chase-Riboud add to wishlist An imaginative reconstruction of the 38-year love affair between Thomas Jefferson and a slave woman on his plantation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women more books like this by Alice Walker add to wishlist This collection of short fiction, which is heavily influenced by the folkloric stories of Zora Neale Hurston, provide glimpses into the lives of a variety of African-American women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Heart of a Woman more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist HEART OF A WOMEN, the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, describes the beginning of her writing career and the years when she first became politically active, relating encounters with the Harlem Writers Guild and Martin Luther King, Jr. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Women of Brewster Place more books like this by Gloria Naylor add to wishlist This is a portrait of Brewster Place where the coloured women cursed, badgered, worshipped, and shared their men. They were hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased. Like an ebony phoenix, each in her own time and her own season had a story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Blacker the Berry more books like this by Wallace Thurman add to wishlist This widely read, controversial work from the Harlem Renaissance was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the black community. A young woman, whose dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself but to her lighter-skinned family and friends, travels from Boise, Idaho, to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Black Looks: Race and Representation more books like this by Bell Hooks add to wishlist see all copies from $4.88! new only from $13.50! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life more books like this by Kesho Yvonne Scott add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
9	Quicksand ; &, Passing more books like this by Nella Larsen add to wishlist "Quicksand" (1928) is the first novel to give a voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helga Crane, the book's protagonist, is trapped in the conflict between an active and a passive sexual behaviour, between sexual fufilment and middle-class respectability. Conflicts of race and sex even a religious conversion cannot resolve. "Passing", ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| SVS
10	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf more books like this by Ntozake Shange add to wishlist From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A Shining Thread of Hope more books like this by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson add to wishlist "A Shining Thread of Hope" moves black women from the fringes of history, disclosing their impact on American life from colonial America to the years of antebellum slavery to the arts renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America more books like this by Brian Lanker add to wishlist Maya Angelou wrote the introduction to this volume of eloquent photographs of black women who struggled to effect change in a world that was often hostile to them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.09! \| SVS
13 view cover	Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America more books like this by Leon Dash add to wishlist Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Mama Day more books like this by Gloria Naylor add to wishlist In the Deep South old Mama Day, descended from a legendary slave, has intimations of the past and sometimes, as when her newly-married grand-niece Cocoa comes home to visit, disturbing presentiments of the future. The author also wrote "The Women of Brewster Place" and "Linden Hills". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America more books like this by Paula Giddings add to wishlist In her landmark appraisal of black women's unsung contributions to the struggles for racial and sexual equality, Giddings draws on speeches, diaries, and letters of influential black women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to reveal how black women have transcended the double discrimination of being ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South more books like this by Susan Tucker add to wishlist ; Segregated South /Susan Tucker A moving and eloquent collection of oral histories that convey the bonds that have united black and whit see all copies from $27.06!
17 view cover	Blanche Among the Talented Tenth more books like this by Barbara Neely add to wishlist At an exclusive African-American resort in Maine, the godson of a famous feminist commits suicide. Another guest has a fatal accident with a radio in the bath. When Blanche uses her considerable wiles to determine if these two events are connected, she discovers a web of secrets someone may be willing to kill for. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Corregidora more books like this by Gayl Jones add to wishlist Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slavemaster who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Ursa's need to ensure that future generations never forget the horror of his rule founders when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty more books like this by Dorothy Roberts add to wishlist Throughout American history, our government and society at large have attempted to control the black woman's body--from the antebellum master's economic stake in the fertility of bonded women to the 1990's suggestion of laws to prevent women on welfare from having babies. Yale and Harvard graduate Dorothy Roberts' presents an impassioned ... see all copies from $3.88! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Fine Beauty more books like this by Sam Fine add to wishlist In this spectacular photo-packed guide, renowned makeup artist Sam Fine shares his beauty secrets for African-American women. With lavish illustrations and photographs of famous models--including Iman and Veronica Webb--and straightforward advice for replicating Fine's sought-after makeovers. Fine's clients, including Naomi Campbell, Patti LaBelle ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $37.14! \| signed copies
21 view cover	The Salt Eaters more books like this by Toni Cade Bambara add to wishlist A community organizer named Velma Henry attempts suicide, and, in the struggle of a group of wise women to restore her to life, Velma reflects on her past. Interwoven with her story are the stories of others: her husband, her godmother, a doctor, a former pimp and street hustler. Bambara's belief is that true healing for blacks can be accomplished ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Racism 101 more books like this by Nikki Giovanni add to wishlist In this provocative set of essays, Nikki Giovanni addresses issues in African American Studies: she indicts higher education, provides guidance for black students at predominantly white campuses, and critiques Spike Lee. In addition, she debates affirmative action, meditates on the purposes of poetry, and explores the role of riots. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Black Girl Lost more books like this by Donald Goines add to wishlist Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting, moving into the profits of drug pushing. Then she met Chink and discovered love...and rape and murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 more books like this by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, B.A., Ph.D. add to wishlist This work recovers the nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its centre. It explores the roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the time before the disenfranchisement of black men in 1900 to when black and white women gained the vote in 1920. see all copies from $16.21! new only from $25.20! \| SVS
25 view cover	Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits more books like this by Dawn Marie Daniels, Candace Sandy add to wishlist Black women from all walks of life talk openly, honestly--and often for the first time--about their most intimate concerns, feelings, and situations. Arranged thematically--from abortion to AIDS to date rape, love, sex, and money--this landmark anthology touches every aspect of the black female experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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