Autobiography of famous black women
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- Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
bygd Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
$19.99
In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’sIn the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’sThe Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’sMen We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth.
Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to—true ones of course—but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. What she encountered was almost always written by vit writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty and utländsk as ancient ruins. When she sought myths written by Black authors, they were rooted too far in the past, a continent away.
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Black Women in History for Kids
This beautifully illustrated board book edition of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by #1 New York Times bestselling author Vashti Harrison showcases women who changed the world, and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams.
Dream Big, Little One features eighteen trailblazing Black women in American history, includingA 2022 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree!
This luminous, defining picture book biography illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, tells the remarkable and inspiring story of acclaimed singer Nina Simone and her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy.A timely picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, who sought the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States.
From NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose
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In her 1993 poem, “won’t you celebrate with me,” author and educator, Lucille Clifton, invites us to wonder at the life she has created:
“… i had no model
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up.”
As a Black woman existing at the intersections of these marginalized identities (“both nonwhite and woman”), Clifton finds herself rendered invisible in the mainstream and—consequently—creates herself in the process. 30 years onwards, Black women writers continue to take on the mantle of rendering themselves visible across genres and constructing models for future generations to see themselves in.
This has been especially true in the case of personal narratives, from memoir to essay collections. Starting with Harriet Jacobs’Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl published in 1861 as a foundational abolitionist text, through to Angela Davis: An Autobiographyreleased only a few years after the acquittal of the Black Pa