The Black Girl Project

These are books that are important to the practice and pedagogy of The Black Girl Project. These texts are academic, popular, and even fun. Thanks for browsing and shopping! Please note: These lists are not exhaustive.

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911 Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels (Revised)
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: A Pillar

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection (Original) The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood) Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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Pauline Hopkins: A Pillar

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance Their Eyes Were Watching God Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Pillar

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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Ntozake Shange: A Pillar

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Wisdom of an Outsider: Audre Lorde Reading and Discussion Group

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
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A Non-Exhaustive List of Black Women Writers and Poets