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1. bell hooks

Feminism is for Everybody

A concise argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today by one of the world's leading feminist writers

1. Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn

Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.

1. Rachel , Cusk

Transit

Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Guggenheim fellow. She lives in Paris.

We Real Cool: Black Men And Masculinity

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks is a book collection of 10 essays on the way in which white culture marginalizes black males. The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies.In We Real Cool, hooks suggests that black males are forced to repress themselves in white America. She suggests the ways in which racist and sexist attitudes developed in American culture have criminalized and dehumanized black males, and the ways in which these myths have harmed the black community. In the book hooks states that she believes that hip-hop as a whole strongly reflects imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

Michele Wallace

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michele Faith Wallace (born January 4, 1952) is a feminist author and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She became famous in 1979 when, at age 27, she published Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman, a book in which she criticized black nationalism and sexism. Her writings on literature, art, film, and popular culture have been widely published and have made her a "leader of a [new] generation of African-American intellectuals." The cogency and insightfulness of Wallace's essays on visual culture and its relationship to race and gender is typified by "Modernism, Postmodernism and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture" and her afterword in the book Black Popular Culture (based on a groundbreaking conference organized by Wallace at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 1991): "Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in African-American Culture".

Tengo Sed

Yndia Lorick-Wilmot is a sociologist and creator of the award-winning podcast Belonging to Blackness. She is the author of Creating Black Caribbean Identity and Stories of Identity Among Black Middle Class Second-Generation Caribbeans. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere is a professor of African Diasporic literature and is the author of Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman and the novel Finding La Negrita. She is the founder and host of Tengo Sed Writing Retreats in Costa Rica.