Tag: @UGAPress
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{2015 New Releases} Week 7: Feb 9-15
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by: Issa Rae In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black […]
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{Book Attraction} Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press by: Alice Dunnigan, Carol McCabe Booker
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations […]