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  • When We Imagine Grace

    Black Men and Subject Making

    by Simone C. Drake ...
    Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems—systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Educated

    A Midwest Story

    by Simone C. Drake ...
    A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "integration guinea pig" in the 1980s Midwest.Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake’s engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake, a scholar of literature, culture, and law, uses her own story as a Black girl attending recently desegregated Columbus public schools in the 1980s and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Are You Entertained?

    Black Popular Culture in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson ...
    The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Critical Appropriations

    African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

    by Simone C. Drake ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • A Black Queer History of the United States

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  • Gender Talk

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