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1. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Creator / Contributor:
Junauda Petrus
Date Created / Date Issued:
2019
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Audre is being sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Her grandmother Queenie tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots. Minneapolis. Mabel is trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels-- about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods. When Audre and her father come for dinner, Mabel falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But when test results reveal why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer, it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as they face a deeply uncertain future.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African Americans, Blacks -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad, Lesbians, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad, Young adult fiction, Young adult works, Fiction, Juvenile works, Lesbian fiction, and Novels
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2019003294, ISBN: 9780525555483, ISBN : 052555548X, OCLC: (OCoLC)1080276137, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1080276137, and ISBN: 9780525555506

2. Speaking in Whispers: African-American Lesbian Erotica

Creator / Contributor:
Kathleen E. Morris
Date Created / Date Issued:
1996
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American lesbians, Lesbians' writings, American, Erotic stories, American, and Fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 96022395, ISBN: 1879427281 (alk. paper), ISBN: 9781879427280 (alk. paper), and OCLC: (OCoLC)34651711

3. Freshwater

Creator / Contributor:
Akwaeke Emezi
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family. Her parents, Saul and Saachi, successfully prayed her into existence, but as she grows into a volatile and splintered child, it becomes clear that something went terribly awry. When Ada comes of age and moves to America for college, the group of selves within her grows in power and agency. A traumatic assault leads to a crystallization of her alternate selves: Asụghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves, now protective, now hedonistic, move into control, Ada's life spirals in a dark and dangerous direction. Narrated from the perspective of the various selves within Ada, and based in the author's realities, Freshwater explores the metaphysics of identity and mental health, plunging the reader into the mystery of being and self. Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace, heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Women -- Nigeria, Identity (Psychology), Nigeria, Fiction, and Autobiographical fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2017028925, ISBN: 9780802127358, ISBN: 0802127355, OCLC: (OCoLC)990286953, and ISBN: 9780802165565

4. Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent

Creator / Contributor:
Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell
Date Created / Date Issued:
1996
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
An anthology of fiction by gay, black men. The works of 23 writers are represented, from Bill Wright's Your Mother from Cleveland, to A. Cinque Hicks' Spice.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Gay men| American fiction -- African American authors| Gay men's writings, American| African American gays| African American men| African Americans| Fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 95048795| ISBN: 0380783053 (pbk.)| ISBN: 9780380783052 (pbk.)| OCLC: (OCoLC)33666519
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

5. Hurricane Child

Creator / Contributor:
Kacen Callender
Date Created / Date Issued:
2018
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American girls, Mothers and daughters, Missing persons, Fathers and daughters, Friendship, Hurricanes, Acting out (Psychology), African American lesbians, United States Virgin Islands, Fiction, Juvenile works, and Fantasy fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2017032545, ISBN: 9781338129304, ISBN: 1338129309, and OCLC: (OCoLC)1000585897

6. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

Creator / Contributor:
E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson
Date Created / Date Issued:
2005
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African Americans -- Study and teaching| Gay and lesbian studies -- United States| African Americans -- Race identity| Gays -- United States -- Identity| Lesbians -- United States -- Identity
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2005009917| ISBN: 0822336294| ISBN: 0822336189 (pbk.)| OCLC: (OCoLC)59403452
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

7. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race

Creator / Contributor:
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Date Created / Date Issued:
2012
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African Americans -- Race identity| African Americans -- Sexual behavior| United States -- Race relations -- History| Queer theory| Identity (Psychology)| United States| History
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 2011053089| ISBN: 9780822352242| ISBN: 0822352249| ISBN: 9780822352419| ISBN: 0822352419| OCLC: (OCoLC)769871244
Source Collection Name:
Black Queer Studies Collection

8. The Prophets

Creator / Contributor:
Robert Jones, Jr.
Date Created / Date Issued:
2021
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Description:
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. When an older fellow slave seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony.
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African American gay men, Gay men, Black -- United States, Slaves -- United States, United States, Fiction, Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, and Gay fiction
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 1780264631, ISBN: 9781780264639, and OCLC: (OCoLC)1019991943

9. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora

Creator / Contributor:
Keguro Macharia
Date Created / Date Issued:
2019
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
African diaspora, Blacks -- Social conditions, Sex, and Queer theory
Source Collection Identifier:
ISBN: 1479802506, ISBN: 9781479802500, OCLC: (OCoLC)1120690171, OCLC: (OCoLC)on1120690171, and ISBN: 9781479881147

10. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology

Creator / Contributor:
Joseph Beam
Date Created / Date Issued:
1986
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Book
Language:
English
Topic:
Gay men, American literature -- African American authors, African American gays, American literature -- 20th century, and Gay men's writings, American
Source Collection Identifier:
LC: 86017283, ISBN: 0932870732 (pbk.), and OCLC: (OCoLC)ocm14003004