I Am Nobody's Nigger

I Am Nobody's Nigger
Author: Dean Atta
Publisher: Saqi
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1908906170

Revolutionary, reflective and romantic, I Am Nobody's Nigger is the powerful debut collection by one of the UK's finest emerging poets. Exploring race, identity and sexuality, Dean Atta shares his perspective on family, friendship, relationships and London life, from riots to one-night stands. Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2014'Go Dean Atta. Speak the truth. Tweet the truth. Upload it. Let it ring out over the digital domain and strike at the heart of the offline wireless and disconnected.' Lemn Sissay 'Dean Atta's poetry is as honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he seeks no favours ... Beyond black, beyond white, beyond straight, beyond gay, so I say. Love your eyes over these words of truth. You will be uplifted.' Benjamin Zephaniah 'Righteous and forceful' Peter Tatchell'I can do nothing but take my hat off to Dean Atta for speaking out, saying what he believed, and doing it so effectively and powerfully that countless people heard it who would never normally have done so. Poetry is a powerful tool, and I Am Nobody's Nigger is a perfect example of when that tool shows its full strength.' Huffington Post' Huffington Post 'Raconteur Dean Atta doing what he does best; articulating London's dark, deep-rooted social cancers through a beautiful and intricately personal narrative.' Clash

The Black Flamingo

The Black Flamingo
Author: Dean Atta
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1444948598

'I loved every word' - Malorie Blackman 'Atta's bold verse novel calls to its readers to find their own blazing, performative inner truth' - Guardian A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo. A bold story about the power of embracing your uniqueness. Sometimes, we need to take charge, to stand up wearing pink feathers - to show ourselves to the world in bold colour. 'I masquerade in makeup and feathers and I am applauded.' SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDS 2019

Nigger

Nigger
Author: Dick Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1964
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671735608

The story of Dick Greagory, welfare case, star athelete, hit comedian, and front-line participant in the battle for Civil Rights.

Nigger

Nigger
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307538915

Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?

Only on the Weekends

Only on the Weekends
Author: Dean Atta
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0063158000

From the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful—and sometimes painful—fallout of pursuing the love we deserve. The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli. Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic—likely a hazard of growing up on film sets thanks to his father’s job. Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can’t believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too. But when Mack’s father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be. It’s awful to be so far away from Karim, and it’s made worse by the fact that Karim can be so hard to read. Then Mack meets actor Finlay on set, and the world turns upside down again. Fin seems fearless—and his confidence could just be infectious. Award-winning author Dean Atta crafts a beautifully nuanced and revelatory story in verse about the exquisite highs and lows of first love and self-discovery.

Die Nigger Die!

Die Nigger Die!
Author: H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613741588

More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, this book is not only illuminating and dynamic but also a vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Brown's decades of harassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial.

Capitalist Nigger

Capitalist Nigger
Author: Chika Onyeani
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1868425061

Capitalist Nigger is an explosive and jarring indictment of the black race. The book asserts that the Negroid race, as naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race, a consumer race that depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding and its clothing. Despite enormous natural resources, blacks are economic slaves because they lack the 'devil-may-care' attitude and the 'killer instinct' of the Caucasian, as well as the spider web mentality of the Asian. A Capitalist Nigger must embody ruthlessness in pursuit of excellence in his drive towards achieving the goal of becoming an economic warrior. In putting forward the idea of the Capitalist Nigger, Chika Onyeani charts a road to success whereby black economic warriors employ the 'Spider Web Doctrine' – discipline, self-reliance, ruthlessness – to escape from their victim mentality. Born in Nigeria, Chika Onyeani is a journalist, editor and former diplomat.

Hot Nickles & Kool Pennies

Hot Nickles & Kool Pennies
Author: Kenny Attaway
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1438937490

Hot nickels is a book/ mood prepared as food for thought dishes. Everyone is welcome to a plate of intrigue, passion, love and shoe fly pie to dine from along with being a challenge for all to become better friends, citizens and never forget the essence of the Harlem Renaissance . Hot nickel.. is needed as much as the HR was in 1920. Many of the respectable cultures and attributes across the world are celebrated, however African American culture at times is overlooked and not fêted and embraced. Hot nickel... is not only an attempt, but a haunting desire to commemorate the thoughts, lifestyles and food dishes of African Americans poetically. Every poem, abstract, story and haiku was carved, shaped and written to stick to the ribs of the mind and soul. Every piece was prepared for all to nibble, gnaw, sample, eat and digest in hopes of your mind becoming fat and filling. Hot nickels & kool pennies: khocolate happi vibin' broken into three to five counterpart/ meanings. The subtitle/restaurant KHV (chocolate was ebonixed and spelled with a K instead of a C for Kenny (who is the leading chef of the vibe) and chocolate is the color of the African Americans people. Chocolate is deep, sweet and rich like the sonnets and writing of the vibe and designed to make you smile (mentally) as chocolate does for many. Happy is ebonixed like chocolate and spelled happi for I needed to emphasize. Happy defines celebration, triumph, and ending of sorrows and tough situation much like our lives. Vibe symbolizes the feeling of place and mood when creating a masterpiece through penmanship -A deep, sweet and rich celebration of triumph, pain and overcoming feelings of everyday life in the worlds of all of us.

Kalakuta Republic

Kalakuta Republic
Author: Chris Abani
Publisher: Saqi
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0863568785

This powerful collection of poems details the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and other political prisoners at the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s. Abani vividly describes the characters that peopled this dark world, from prison inmates such as John James, tortured to death at the age of fourteen, to the general overseers. First published after his release from jail in 1991, Kalakuta Republic remains a paean to those who suffered and to the indomitable human spirit. 'Reading Abani's poems is like being singed by a red hot iron.' Harold Pinter 'Abani's poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts to the heart of human strength, survival and tyranny.' Pride Magazine 'Stunning poems ... Abani conveys the experience in words shaped into art and made unforgettable by their quietness.' New Humanist 'A beautiful work of art ... elevates art and humanity above meanness and inhumanity.' World Literature Today 'A brave and challenging book ... I was moved as much by what the poems have achieved as by what they have rescued from that nightmare world. Reading, I found myself in tears.' Sunday Tribune 'An unheralded chunk of authentic literature' New Statesman 'Abani's ...poems contain moments of grace, humanity and humor.' Susannah Tarbush, Diwaniya 'Chris has emerged with poems that are graceful pieces of art, almost ready to be hung in a gallery for others to come and enter them and rest in them and weep in them and admire them.' Kwame Dawes, professor of English literature, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA