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Books by Kalamu ya
Salaam
The Magic of JuJu: An Appreciation of the Black Arts
Movement /
360:
A Revolution of Black Poets
Everywhere Is Someplace Else: A Literary Anthology
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From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
Our Music Is No Accident /
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
My Story My Song (CD)
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Kalamu's Feminist Erotica
Summaries
1) "Raoul's Silver
Song " (Street Lights, ed. Martin
Simmons;1996) -- that's in an anthology called street lights, edited by martin
simmons (if i remember his name correctly). one of the few stories i have
published that has a new orleans setting.
2) "Do
Right Women " (Dark Eros, ed. Reginal Martin;
1999) -- an essay on classic blues singers of the 20s -- all of whom were women.
that's in dark eros. when you read it you will understand why i suggest you deal
with it.
3) "Murder" (Obsidian II; date?) -- that's in
obsidian ii. it's a short story but it's not fiction per se, even though that's
the category it's put in. about a friend who was the victim of an armed robbery.
4) "Could
You Wear My Eyes ?" (Dark Matter: A
Century of Speculative Fiction, 2001)
5) "Where
Do Dreams Come From" (late 60s-early 70s) --
that's in an obscure, speculative fiction literary journal. it is from the late
sixties, early seventies. would be could also to show how long these concerns
have been evident in my published fiction.
6) "Another
Duke Ellington Story " (published in Italy; journal?; date?)
-- that's been published in italy. i don't even know the name of the journal,
but i can find out and get the publication date. the story is about duke ellington, but the focus is on a female audience member.
7) "Forty-Five
Is Not So Old " (Dark Eros, 1999) -- that's in
the anthology dark eros, but i think it is listed under a pseudonym
that the editor used because he was also using some of my poetry and a rather
long essay.
8) "I
Sing Because..." (Essence, 1999) -- i sing
because... that's in a journal that came out once, called "anasi" and
was later picked up and is in the december 1999 issue of essence magazine. it's
a piece about an enslaved sister who decides she is not going to have any more
children.
9) "Sister Bibi" (We Be Word Sorcerers, 1973) -- in
the we be word sorcerers anthology, edited by sonia sanchez. that's from way
back in the game. early 70s if i'm not mistaken. one of my early fiction
publications. it will give you a perspective on the published fiction
around the theme of women.
10) "Just Like a Woman" (Kente Cloth, edited by James Mardis, 1997) -- that's in an anthology called kente cloth. despite it's title,
the main characters are men but it deals with the social definition of what it
means to be a woman.
11) "the roses are beautiful..." that's in
afterhours,
which i still haven't seen. but you have.
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Erotique Noire/Black Erotica
Edited by Miriam Decosta-Willis, Reginald
Martin, and Roseann P. Bell
The
editors are to be congratulated for amassing
a collection of erotica worthy in its own
right because of the writers showcased,
among them Alice Walker, Chester Himes,
Gloria Naylor, Jewelle Gomez, Charles
Blockson, Audre Lorde, and Essex Hemphill.
Coverage is not limited to African American
writers but includes African, Caribbean
American, and Latin American writers,
whether straight or gay, of prose, poetry,
or fiction. For some authors, this anthology
features their first piece of erotic
writing. Readers will be familiar with other
selections, for example, Lorde's "Uses of
the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." As a
whole, this book successfully challenges
stereotypical notions about black erotica
and serves up delightful sexual tidbits for
just about everyone's taste.—Faye
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Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust, and Marriage by
Black Men
Edited by Robert
Fleming
Inventive conceits dominate in Fleming's
second collection of erotic stories (after
2002's After
Hours) by African-American writers
both new and established. Sexual frustration
proves to be a nice point of entry for
sci-fi writer Stephen Barnes in "Jet Lag,"
as a writer's busy schedule and a visiting
mother-in-law keep the flames of love in
check until a final, explosive release.
Kinky sex takes center stage in Reginald
Brown's "Almond Eyes," a cautionary tale
about a young man whose hot, older and
erotically adventurous girlfriend might be
sucking the life out of him. In Gary Earl
Ross's "Lucky She's Mine," a criminologist
rescues and marries a battered woman, only
to be stalked by her ex after he gets out of
prison, while in "Forty-five Is Not So Old,"
Kalamu ya Salaam presents
the sad dilemma of a middle-aged woman
lamenting her husband's lack of desire for
her even as he lies in a hotel with his
mistress. Cecil Brown provides a cheeky
moment of comic relief in an excerpt from
his novel Days Without Weather, "A
Fan's Love," in which a woman seduces a
comedian after his show, and demands good
loving and good jokes to spur her to a
stirring climax. Despite the occasional
clunker, and the lack of a couple of longer,
more complex stories to balance the
quick-hit situational material, Fleming has
assembled another volume that's sure to
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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