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50 Books By POC Suggested Reading: Updated 2014 & An Evolving Work in Progress

May 31, 2014 10:47

50 Books by POC Challenge

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Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101.
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
Shobhaa Dé, Bollywood Nights.
Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Zarah the Windseeker. (recommended by DarkFantasy.org POC in Fantasy Roundtable)
Nikki Giovanni, Sacred ( Read more... )

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thegreenyear February 6 2009, 08:46:38 UTC

i nominate zadie smith for your reading pleasure. white teeth was quite good, but on beauty was sheer tasty joy.

popelizbet February 6 2009, 14:10:29 UTC

sweeeet thanks will add to the list.

thegreenyear February 6 2009, 08:53:11 UTC

also, has you read any richard wright? i'd love to get your take on native son, which i kind of hated. and his short stories are fun for me in an "oh-my-fuck-i-am-ashamed-to-be-southern" way.

popelizbet February 6 2009, 14:12:19 UTC

I do not think I have read him, I will throw it up there. Got a short story collection rec?

thegreenyear February 6 2009, 17:59:02 UTC

there's just the early works and later works - throw a stone.

popelizbet February 6 2009, 18:02:20 UTC

duderly, thanks.

rocza February 6 2009, 14:06:11 UTC

Hrm. Not my favourite of the Butler books. (I think Parable of the Sower is probably my favourite.)

Have you read Tayeb Salih's A Season of Migration to the North? This was a routine "teach" in my undergrad, almost always paired with Said's Orientalism.

I'm not sure Country of my Skull "counts" for this; a white South African woman writing about the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. It's a fascinating, if awful, read, though.

*flips through other CHID readings*
Arjun Appadurai wrote one of my favourite books on globalization and the global flow of information and culture, called Modernity at Large. I especially liked this book for giving us a way out of the binarism of Other/Occidental that can be so common in academic thinking about race, culture, and colour ( ... )

popelizbet February 6 2009, 14:17:31 UTC

I loves books, so white academics aren't out of the question, but don't go to the scope of this particular project...so we don't clutter up this space with non-POC authors and get me confused, can you PM me? And thanks for the other recs!

rocza February 6 2009, 14:24:54 UTC

My undergrad department was well known for saying "mmmrm,.. no, not enough pigment, let's go find other authors" and importing obscure academics from all over the globe to teach with/by. I'm not at home til Sunday night, but when I am I'll go through my shelves and see what other books I can find/recommend. (Or long-ass academic papers, for that matter.)

I'll send you my syllabus for CHID 390, tho - have that with me on the computer. It's an entire class designed around getting people to think outside the box, as it were. Covers feminism, gender, othering, etc and so forth. (I think you'll get the point quickly, just flipping through it.)

popelizbet February 6 2009, 14:37:22 UTC

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and this is one of the many reasons I love you!

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leastlikely February 6 2009, 20:45:17 UTC

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer (short stories collection)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

popelizbet February 6 2009, 21:03:17 UTC

Woot woot! I have quite the updating to do tonight, if I estimate correctly y'all have filled out half the challenge :D

hawkorhandsaw February 6 2009, 22:25:26 UTC

black boy by richard wright. the narrows by anne petry. anything by toni morrison?

and, depending on how you define POC: borges, junot diaz, and salman rushdie

popelizbet February 6 2009, 22:26:58 UTC

tell me moar about borges and junot diaz, who I have not heard of

I...have never successfully finished a Toni Morrison novel, which causes me to feel deep shame.

hawkorhandsaw February 6 2009, 22:30:21 UTC

Junot diaz won the pulitzer last year for the brief and wondrous life of oscar wao, he's dominican american, and hes a bit of a jerk in person.

borges is an amazing amazing amazing argentinian writer. pick up his short story collection if you get a chance, its one of the few collections of short stories i love.

and i can't finish morrison either. i dont feel any more shame about that than i do about not being able to finish moby dick. *shrug* not every author's for everyone.

also, murakami. i really like Dance Dance Dance, but the windup bird chronicles is really great too.

popelizbet February 6 2009, 22:32:03 UTC

Heh, yes. And thanks for the other recs, they'll get added in. Y'all have put me over 30 in today's review alone.