Lemonade Syllabus

Candice Benbow's thoughtful, thorough collection of titles relevant to a deeper understanding of the themes and imagery from Beyonce's Lemonade project.

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Sugar

Bernice L. McFadden (Author)

No Disrespect

Sister Souljah

The Coldest Winter Ever: A Novel

Sister Souljah (Author)

The Black Woman: An Anthology

Toni Cade Bambara (Author)

The Good Negress: A Novel

A.J. Verdell (Author)

Praisesong for the Widow

Paule Marshall (Author)

Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story

Asha bandele (Author)

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Alice Walker (Author)

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor (Author)

The Salt Eaters

Toni Cade Bambara (Author)

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire (Author)

Bailey's Cafe

Gloria Naylor (Author)

Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting

Terrie M. Williams (Author)

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

bell hooks

Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans

Lakisha Michelle Simmons (Author)

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Hamilton, and George Ford

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings

Renita J. Weems (Author)

I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

Mitzi J. Smith (Author)

A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering

Emilie Maureen Townes (Author)

Abeng

Michelle Cliff (Author)

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

Beth Richie (Author)

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation

Nyasha Junior (Author)

Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo, Second Edition

Margarite Fernandez Olmos (Author) and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Author)

Hope in the Holler: A Womanist Theology

Anna Elaine Brown Crawford (Author)

Dessa Rose: A Novel

Sherley A. Williams (Author)

Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980

Lucille Clifton (Author)

Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

Lucille Clifton (Author), Kevin Young (Afterword), Michael S. Glaser (Editor), and Toni Morrison (Foreword)

Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas

Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan (Author)

Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "perfect Maid"

Idella Parker (Author) and Mary Keating (Author)

Gender and Discourse: Language and Power in Politics, the Church and Organisations

Clare Walsh (Author)

Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice

Patricia Hill Collins

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Maya Angelou (Author)

Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Mary Shawn Copeland (Author)

Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality: Potographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Lonnie G. Bunch III (Author), Bryan Stevenson (Author), and John Lewis (Author)

Don't Waste Your Pretty: The Go-To Guide for Making Smarter Decisions in Life and Love

Demetria Lucas (Author)

African American Women: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Author), Lonnie G. Bunch III (Author), and Lonnie G. Bunch III (21951) [0 title(s)] (Author)

Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class

Lisa B. Thompson (Author)

Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith

Marla Faye Frederick (Author)

Balm

Dolan Perkins-Valdez (Author)

The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor

Sula (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison

The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin

Daughters of the Dust: A Novel

Julie Dash (Author)

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler (Author)

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler (Author)

Mules and Men

Zora Neale Hurston (Author)

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Cupcake Brown (Author)

A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story

Elaine Brown (Author)

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Pearl Cleage

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

Harriet Jacobs

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Anne Moody

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

Staceyann Chin

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Vintage)

Angela Yvonne Davis

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)

Patricia Hill Collins

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

Patricia Hill Collins

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Audre Lorde and Cheryl Clarke (Foreword)

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Beverly Guy-Sheftall (editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (epilogue), Florence "Flo" Kennedy (contributor), Patricia Hill Collins (contributor), June Jordan (contributor), Michele Wallace (contributor), Pearl Cleage (contributor), Angela Yvonne Davis (contributor), Barbara Smith (contributor), and Combahee River Collective (contributor)

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

Paula J. Giddings

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

Simone Browne (Author)

Venus in the Dark: Blackness And Beauty in Popular Culture

Janell Hobson

The Erotic Life of Racism

Sharon Patricia Holland

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Yvonne Davis

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris (Author)

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Melissa V. Harris-Perry (Author)

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

Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant

Kelly Brown Douglas (Author)

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God

Kelly Brown Douglas

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Dorothy Roberts (Author)

Black Womanist Ethics

Katie Cannon (Author)

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

Alice Walker

Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)

Gloria Naylor

Introducing Womanist Theology

Stephanie Y. Mitchem (Author)

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