Black Feminist/Womanist Studies (nonfiction)

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,477 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,770 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,733 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America 4.33 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies 4.40 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 3.99 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black 4.37 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation 4.36 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism 4.35 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,284 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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Everyday Use
Everyday Use 3.90 avg rating — 4,980 ratings
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology 4.35 avg rating — 920 ratings
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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Girls Are From the Future: Essays on Race, Digital Creativity and Pop Culture
Black Girls Are From the Future: Essays on Race, Digital Creativity and Pop Culture 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist 4.45 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
The Black Woman: An Anthology 4.49 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama 3.75 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,104 ratings
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From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism 4.19 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics 4.26 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music
Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 4.19 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Gender Talk: The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities 4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism 4.42 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Black Feminist Cultural Criticism
Black Feminist Cultural Criticism 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Lesbian in White America
Black Lesbian in White America 4.23 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire 4.47 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography
Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South 4.13 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,735 ratings
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Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism
Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism 4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength 4.47 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair
Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair 3.96 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (Volume 7) (Contradictions of Modernity)
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (Volume 7) (Contradictions of Modernity) 4.39 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26) 4.06 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America 4.16 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Not Just Race, Not Just Gender
Not Just Race, Not Just Gender 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology
Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society
Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability (Critical Perspectives on the Past
Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability (Critical Perspectives on the Past 4.19 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle 4.48 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Womanist Reader
The Womanist Reader 4.30 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Black British Feminism: A Reader
Black British Feminism: A Reader 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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ANOINTED Married Christian Men
ANOINTED Married Christian Men 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Roll
The Roll
by: Joe Hnida
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Many Facets of Me: From A Heart of Hurt To The Joy of Jesus
The Many Facets of Me: From A Heart of Hurt To The Joy of Jesus 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde 4.61 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress
Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Prison-Industrial-Complex
The Prison-Industrial-Complex 4.64 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Carefree Black Girls
Carefree Black Girls
by: Zeba Blay
4.31 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,792 ratings
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune 3.81 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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God Did You Call Me A Toilet
God Did You Call Me A Toilet 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Africana Womanism : Reclaiming Ourselves
Africana Womanism : Reclaiming Ourselves 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Afrekete
Afrekete 4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings
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We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History
We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Black Unicorn: Poems
The Black Unicorn: Poems 4.34 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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The Angela Y. Davis Reader
The Angela Y. Davis Reader 4.49 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Denti bianchi
Denti bianchi 3.79 avg rating — 170,746 ratings
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader 4.54 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues 4.47 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars 4.38 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Womanist Idea
The Womanist Idea 4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality 4.22 avg rating — 322 ratings
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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance 4.44 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review
Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Troubling in My Soul (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black R)
A Troubling in My Soul (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black R) 4.51 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community 4.56 avg rating — 75 ratings
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An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work 4.60 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings
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Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space
Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Angela Davis Speaks!
Angela Davis Speaks! 4.48 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over 3.50 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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Moorings and Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature
Moorings and Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Black Feminist Reader
The Black Feminist Reader
by: Joy James
4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies
Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies 4.66 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism
Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women's Contemporary Activism 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology 4.30 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
by: Joy James
4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women
Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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