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Noname Book Club Selections 2021

Launched in the summer of 2019 by Chicago rapper Noname, the book club picks two titles a month to discuss both online and in-person in discussion groups around the country. Described as “reading material for the homies”, Noname Book Club highlights books that speak on human conditions in critical and original ways while encouraging members to support the works of authors of color.
 

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1. Belly of the beast: the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness

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Author:
Harrison, Da'Shaun, 1996-
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Central
305.38896 H318 2021
McKinley
305.38896 H318 2021
Southgate
305.38896 H318 2021
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"An exploration of anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health"--

2. My sister, the serial killer: a novel

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Author:
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
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3.9 stars
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Carmichael
LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
McKinley
LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
Pocket-Greenhaven
LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...

3. This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed: how guns made the civil rights movement possible

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Author:
Cobb, Charles E., Jr
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Arden-Dimick
323.119607 C653 2016
Central
323.1196 C653t 2014
Central
323.119607 C653 2016
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"Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as "an arsenal." Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get...