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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Danielle L. McGuire

324 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

3.5memengwaa's review
nonfiction feminism history race emotional slow-paced
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture

Zeba Blay

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0memengwaa's review
nonfiction art essays feminism race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0memengwaa's review
fiction horror lgbtqia+ science fiction dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

404 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

3.5memengwaa's review
nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

The Unsettled

Ayana Mathis

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

3.75memengwaa's review
fiction literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Erin Kimmerle

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

3.75memengwaa's review
nonfiction history true crime challenging dark informative medium-paced
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller young adult dark emotional tense fast-paced
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

288 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw by Eddie Ndopu

Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw

Eddie Ndopu

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0memengwaa's review
nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

4.25memengwaa's review
nonfiction history race dark informative sad medium-paced