
General Track Book of the Month
Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Set in the neighbourhood of "Little Jamaica," Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.
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For the Black girls in the forgotten spaces.
Bringing together an international community of women of color through reading and dialogue.
SBG Book Club is not just about what book to read. It’s about the community we have access to. It’s about helping each one of us to find the intelligence we hold inside. It’s about digging deeper and building out a world that is bigger than us.
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Exploration Track
African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Thru 2023
Article is included in the syllabus.
Often referred to as “The Metalanguage of Race,” Higginbotham’s essay is critically esteemed for its emphasis on Black women’s history and pointed analyses of the essentialism of gender and race in the academy, particularly feminist theory. “Metalanguage” laid the groundwork for what scholars–such as literary scholar Saidiya Hartman and historian Sarah Haley–would call a Black Feminist Framework and Methodology within historical research.
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