Unsere Empfehlungen

Dear Reader, wir freuen uns, wenn du uns unterstützt, indem du die Bücher zu uns in den Laden oder direkt zu dir nach Hause bestellst. :)

Weiße Wolken
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Weiße Wolken Yandé Seck

Buch (Hardcover)


Zwei Schwestern: Die eine arbeitet sich an sämtlichem Unrecht unserer Gegenwart ab, die andere am bürgerlichen Familienideal; für die eine ist ihr Schwarzsein eine politische Kategorie, für die andere ihr Muttersein. Klug, erhellend und mit hintergründigem Witz erzählt Yandé Seck in ihrem Debütroman von den Ambivalenzen, die wir im Kleinen wie im Großen aushalten müssen. Dieo lebt mit ihrem Mann Simon und drei Söhnen in einer schönen Altbauwohnung im Frankfurter Nordend. Sie leidet unter den unerfüllbaren Ansprüchen der Gesellschaft an sie als Mutter, vor allem aber ist es die ständige Kritik ihrer jüngeren Schwester Zazie an allem und jedem, die an ihren Nerven zerrt. Auch Simon, ein mittelalter weißer Mann und Angestellter in einem Finanz-Start-up, gerät immer wieder ins Visier seiner Schwägerin, die zunehmend an der rassistischen und sexistischen Gesellschaft verzweifelt. Als der Vater der Schwestern, ein eigensinniger Nietzschefan, der vor mehr als vierzig Jahren aus dem Senegal nach Deutschland kam, unerwartet stirbt, gerät das mühsam kalibrierte Familiengefüge aus dem Gleichgewicht. Für die Beerdigung reisen die Schwestern in das Land ihres Vaters. Der Abschied wird für die beiden zu einem Neuanfang - in vielerlei Hinsicht.

zum Produkt € 23,00*

Black Trans Feminism
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey

Buch (Softcover)


In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender's destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di'Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.

zum Produkt € 27,50*

Der unsichtbare Mann
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Der unsichtbare Mann Ralph Ellison

Buch (Softcover)


Ralph Ellison, neben Toni Morrison und James Baldwin eine der großen Stimmen der afroamerikanischen Literatur der Gegenwart, gewann 1953 den National Book Award und wurde mit seinem gefeierten New-York-Roman schlagartig berühmt. Die Geschichte von der Odyssee eines namenlosen Schwarzen, die ihn von ganz oben bis ganz unten durch alle Schichten der amerikanischen Gesellschaft führt, ist eines der Lieblingsbücher von Barack Obama und bleibt hochaktuell: als schonungslose Abrechnung mit den alltäglichen rassistischen Ideologien und als Lob auf das gewachsene Selbstbewusstsein der noch immer um ihre selbstverständlichen Rechte Kämpfenden. 'Ich bin unsichtbar, verstehen Sie, weil sich die Leute weigern, mich zu sehen ... Wer sich mir nähert, sieht nur meine Umgebung, sich selbst oder die Auswüchse seiner Phantasie - in der Tat alles und jedes, nur mich nicht.'

zum Produkt € 16,00*

Vor ihren Augen sahen sie Gott
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Vor ihren Augen sahen sie Gott Zora Neale Hurston

Buch (Softcover)


Janie kann von einem erfüllten Leben nur träumen. Zu ihrer ersten Ehe mit einem deutlich älteren Mann wird sie von ihrer Großmutter gezwungen, und läuft bald mit einem anderen davon. Doch auch diese zweite Ehe wird sich nicht als glücklich erweisen. Und so macht Janie sich auf den Weg ins Unbekannte. Reich an Er- fahrungen, guten wie schlechten, kehrt sie Jahre später nach Hause zurück. In einer einzigen Nacht, in Florida im Jahr 1928, erzählt Janie ihrer besten Freundin Pheoby, wie sie aufbrach in ein anderes Leben, wie sie den viel jüngeren Tea Cake traf, endlich das Glück fand und was geschah, als der große Hurrikan kam. In Janies Geschichte geht es um nichts weniger als um das, was Menschen, ob Frau oder Mann, schwarz oder weiß, im Innersten ausmacht. Von ihrer Reise kehrt Janie als eine andere zurück - und auch wer ihre Geschichte hört, wird nie mehr sein, wer er war. Eine der schönsten und traurigsten Liebesgeschichten, die je geschrieben wurden.

zum Produkt € 13,00*

Sula
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Sula Toni Morrison

Buch (Softcover)


One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. • With a new introduction by Jesmyn Ward. “Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive.” —The New York Times Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.

zum Produkt € 10,00*

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou

Buch (Softcover)


Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin

zum Produkt € 10,50*

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley, Malcolm X

Buch (Softcover)


From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. He became identified in the white press as a teacher of race hatred. This autobiography reveals his integrity and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism.

zum Produkt € 16,50*

Critical Race Theory
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Garry Peller, Neil Gotanda

Buch (Softcover)


What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and includes case studies, is the essential work to understand the intellectual movement Why did the president of the United States, in the midst of a pandemic and an economic crisis, take it upon himself to attack Critical Race Theory? Perhaps Donald Trump appreciated the power of this groundbreaking intellectual movement to change the world. In recent years, Critical Race Theory has vaulted out of the academy and into courtrooms, newsrooms, and onto the streets. And no wonder: as intersectionality theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw recently told Time magazine, "It's an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it." The panicked denunciations from the right notwithstanding, CRT has changed the way millions of people interpret our troubled world. Edited by its principal founders and leading theoreticians, Critical Race Theory was the first book to gather the movement's most important essays. This groundbreaking book includes contributions from scholars including Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Dorothy Roberts, Lani Guinier, Duncan Kennedy, and many others. It is essential reading in an age of acute racial injustice.

zum Produkt € 30,50*

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Angela Y. Davis

Buch (Softcover)


From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyses today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that 'Freedom is a constant struggle.'

zum Produkt € 15,50*

Your Silence Will Not Protect You
empfohlen von:

Malena

Malena

Your Silence Will Not Protect You Audre Lorde

Buch (Softcover)

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

zum Produkt € 17,50*