Jamaican lesbian poet activist StaceyAnn Chin has a new memoir out ( Read more... )

Here's the POC mostly fiction booklist that denimqueen started and skywardprodigal developed.

I cleaned the list and put all the books under individual titles (except the Easy Rawlins books)

Bold those you have read, underline those you LOVE and italicize those that you intend to read. But instead of forcing books on your friends, just pass the list forward.

001. ( Read more... )

This book had been sitting on my desk for a LONG time, I'd bought it because of a really good critique of Horatio Alger that was excerpted from this book (thank god for the internet) that I needed for a peice I wrote on "Fear and the American Dream" about 6 months ago and last night at about 2.30 am (you know who you are, it's your fault) I finally ( Read more... )

These are my preliminary thoughts on the book. They're a little badly-focussed but it should give you a bit of a sense of how I see the book. Apologies also for the occasional lapses into social sciencese, I tried to limit it as best I could, but the review was written in haste and I'm afraid that means it's stuck in my primary mode of expression ( Read more... )