Download or read book Big Black Private Lesson Interracial Black M White F Erotic Tale written by Jane Snow and published by Jane Snow. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanya lives in a quiet little neighborhood and her friend reminds her that a new neighbor has arrived. He's a well built black man who's offering a discount for a private Yoga lesson. Tanya's last physical trainer was a huge dissapointment and she takes this as a chance to try something new. She's a bit weary though, coming from a family that has butted heads with people of color before. When her husband is over at a neighbor's to watch shows he missed on DVR, Tanya heads over for her private lesson. As the private lesson begins, she starts feeling something strange come over her as she sees her big black instructor up close... Does she act upon it?

Download or read book Tales of a Cuckoldress Trilogy written by Jane Snow and published by PEAR Stories. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bored couple decide to live out their fantasies, more specifically the husband's fantasy, things start to get hot and wild. This three book bundle pulls together three hot tales of a married couple, Sarah and Jim, as the white hot wife turns into a sultry cuckoldress! This bundle includes: Our First Black Experience Sarah and Jim are an average married couple, living a repetitive, relatively unexciting life. She's a busy career woman, while her husband is a former athlete, now working in sports management for a living. Out of the blue, Sarah asks Jim about his wildest fantasy. His 40th birthday is coming and she wants to fulfill it. Her husband is extremely hesitant at first, unable to just tell her, but as she presses, he finally spills the beans... he wants to be cucked. Sarah is initially very confused, as she's never heard the term before. Jim explains that he wants to see her have sex with another man while he watches... and for his fantasy, it wouldn't be just any man but a black man. Sarah isn't sure it's a good idea at first, but the more she thinks on it, she feels it might be a nice way to spice up their mundane life. They agree to try it and start the search for a big black man that can fulfill Jim's fantasy for his birthday and let them have their first black experience. Driving Us Wild Sarah and Jim are still thinking about their first cuckolding experience. She can't stop thinking about the long, thick manhood of the black bull they had found on a dating app. Sarah has agreed to trying it again and Jim has been researching into the topic non-stop. The two decide to go out for dinner and Jim starts to act a little strange. He suggests that they request a ride through an app, as he wants to grab a couple of drinks and he's feeling pretty tired. But before they get to the restaurant, he asks if she's interested cucking him with a new black bull. Sarah is surprised but as the lips of her sex quiver, she agrees. A little workout before dinner doesn't sound bad. When the two go out and get picked up by their ride, Sarah finds it weird that they're heading in some random direction. After a bit of probing, Jim admits that this isn't just a normal ride. The person driving is actually the black bull he wanted to watch her have sex with. As the car pulls into an empty lot, Sarah hesitates momentarily but things soon get hot and heavy... Doubling Our Pleasure A bit of time has passed since Sarah and Jim had their little parking lot encounter. Both of them can't stop thinking about it and want more. Jim even bought a little cage to keep him in check while he watches. They hang out at a local coffee shop and start to plan their next encounter but two big, well built black men saunter in and catch Sarah's eye. It's not exactly what Jim planned for but Sarah manages to get them to come over after giving them a peak of what's under her skirt. She tells Jim to act as though they're tourists and not locals. Her husband is a bit hesitant at first but soon fills his role and really starts to get into it. They decide to tell the two black men that they're at a nearby hotel and agree to meet up in a couple of hours. This gives Jim time to prepare and put the cage on. When the time comes, the two big black men and double the pleasure for both of them...

Download or read book Cuckold Nights Trilogy Interracial Erotica Bundle written by Jane Snow and published by PEAR Stories. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hot bundle pulls together three tales of interracial cuckold romance. One story features a couple finding a big black man through an app and inviting him to a bar for a wild night. The second story features a couple that decides to get some room service and gets a lot more than they hoped for. The last features a hot wife and her husband who wants to watch her with a black man in their bed... Cuckold Nights 1 - At the Bar Amy stumbled upon her husband's secret stash of adult videos and is confused by some of the titles. There's a constant reference to an acronym, BBC, and a word she's not familiar with, cuckold. She decides to try watching one and is stunned to see it's an amateur film with a white woman and a well hung black man... with the white woman's husband filming! She's stunned and enthralled by the footage, and doesn't realize when her husband walks in. An awkward silence fills the air before Amy questions her husband on exactly what the footage is. He meekly responds to her, admitting that its his fantasy to see her with a black man, like in the amateur movie. Amy struggles to understand her husband's fantasy but as she glances at the paused footage, she feels her body growing warm at the sight of the black man's impressive member. Amy agrees to fulfill her husband's fantasy and immediately loads a hookup app on her phone. Her husband is nervous at first but once the married couple meets Tyrone on the app, he gets excited. Amy agrees to meet Tyrone at a bar in a seedy neighborhood and Ryan follows along. The two have quite the wild night at the bar... Cuckold Nights 2 - Room Service Rick and Lyn are on a trip to Jamaica for a long awaited vacation. Rick has been busy at work, getting it ready to go from a bustling private startup to a stream lined public company. Unfortunately for Lyn, that has meant long, lonely nights and she can't wait to get in bed with her husband. When they arrive in Jamaica, she can't keep her eyes off the well built statuesque black men wearing tight briefs on the beach playing volleyball. Rick takes notice but doesn't say a word. Once they reach the hotel, Lyn pounces on Rick but he's a bit quick... He washes up and steps back out to ask if Lyn is interested in fulfulling a fantasy of his. She's hesitant at first but asks what it is. When Rick informs her that its to see her with a big black man, she can't help but say yes, feeling not only frustrated but also wondering if the big packages in the black men's briefs were real... Cuckold Nights 3 - In Our Bed Carrie and John are in a sexless marriage, and with all the stress John has been going through, he's been having a hard time getting excited in bed. They visit a doctor and John informs Carrie that the doctor thinks its mental. Apparently, according to the doctor, John should consider talking through his fantasies with Carrie. Carrie is interested and immediately asks John what his fantasy is. John is hesitant at first but he finally opens up... He wants to see her with a black man, in their bed. Most likely some sort of repressed sexual desire from growing up in Alabama. Even after moving to New York, John thinks the desire must have followed. After a short pause, Carrie agrees to fulfill John's fantasy. John is stunned but the two begin using a casual dating app to find someone. They find a big black man to fulfill John's wild interracial cuckold fantasy... Books in the Well Endowed Charity Series also donates all earnings to well rated charities to help causes that the PEAR Stories authors believe in.

Download or read book Lonely Bored Housewife 3 written by Jane Snow and published by PEAR Stories. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy can't stop thinking about her experience with the young black cable guy as well as her exciting time with her neighbor's son, Andre. She keeps fantasizing about them night after night, wanting to feel them once again. Luckily for her, her husband's coming back home and she's ready to ravage him like never before. When Jon comes back, he acts a bit strange, saying things that don't quite add up. For someone who was extremely busy at work and had to stay longer than expected, he seems to have more stories about eating a luxurious restaurants and binge watching shows. Kathy is a bit miffed and frustrated as she hears him talk but soon forgets about it when they get home. She sees Andre and another young, tall black man at her neighbor's. They greet each other and Kathy learns that the other tall black man is Andre's cousin. She can't stop thinking about them as she and Jon get in bed. With her body white hot, she tries to have a passionate night with Jon but he barely lasts a couple of minutes, only satisfying himself before nodding off to sleep. After the weekend, Jon has to travel back to his work place, leaving Kathy home along, with the two young black stallions across the street. She calls Andre over but his cousin also shows up. Things escalate quickly and Kathy starts to satisfy all her needs...

Download or read book Lessons from the Black Neighbor Interracial Erotica written by Jenna Powers and published by Jenna Powers. This book was released on 2013-05-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons from the Black Neighbor Collection written by Jenna Powers and published by Jenna Powers. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flying Lessons Other Stories written by Ellen Oh and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred

Download or read book The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious, colorful #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon that every kid wants! Gift a copy to someone you love today. Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best? With giggle-inducing text from Drew Daywalt and bold and bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, The Day the Crayons Quit is the perfect gift for new parents, baby showers, back-to-school, or any time of year! Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith. Praise for The Day the Crayons Quit: Amazon’s 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2013 Goodreads’ 2013 Best Picture Book of the Year Winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award * “Hilarious . . . Move over, Click, Clack, Moo; we’ve got a new contender for the most successful picture-book strike.” –BCCB, starred review “Jeffers . . . elevates crayon drawing to remarkable heights.” –Booklist “Fresh and funny.” –The Wall Street Journal "This book will have children asking to have it read again and again.” –Library Media Connection * “This colorful title should make for an uproarious storytime.” –School Library Journal, starred review * “These memorable personalities will leave readers glancing apprehensively at their own crayon boxes.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “Utterly original.” –San Francisco Chronicle

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book Hung written by Scott Poulson-Bryant and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant look at the pervasive belief that African American men are prodigiously endowed, from the author’s own experiences to sharp analysis of how black male sexuality is expressed in art, literature, media, sports, and pornography “Scott really goes there, talking honestly and telling secrets about the black phallus and its, uh, massive impact on America.” —Touré “Hung” is a double entendre, referring not only to penis size but to the fact that black men were once literally hung from trees, often for their perceived sexual prowess and the supposed risk it posed to white women. As a poignant reminder, Scott Poulson-Bryant begins his book with a letter to Emmett Till, the teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in the mid-1950s for whistling at a white woman. For Poulson-Bryant and other men of his generation, society’s deep-seated obsession with the sexual powers of black men has had an enormous, if often deceptive, influence on how they perceive themselves and on the assumptions made by others. His tales of his sexual encounters with both sexes, along with anecdotes about the lives of various friends and colleagues, are wryly and at times shockingly revealing. Enduring racial perceptions have shaped popular culture as well, and Poulson-Bryant offers a thorough, thought-provoking look at media-created images of the “Well-Hung Black Male.” He deftly deconstructs movies like Mandingo and Shaft, articles in the popular press, and edgy works like Robert Mapplethorpe’s Black Book, while also providing distinctive profiles of icons like porn star Lexington Steele and rapper L.L. Cool J. A mixture of memoir and cultural commentary, Hung is the first book to take on phallic fixation and uncover what lies below.

Download or read book From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the eyes of a compelling narrator Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot--they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to him--is this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?

Download or read book The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys written by Eddie Moore Jr. and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empower black boys to dream, believe, achieve Schools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is "done." That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is written specifically for them as a way to help them understand, respect and connect with all of their students. So much more than a call to call to action—but that, too!—The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys brings together research, activities, personal stories, and video interviews to help us all embrace the deep realities and thrilling potential of this crucial American task. With Eddie, Ali, and Marguerite as your mentors, you will learn how to: Develop learning environments that help Black boys feel a sense of belonging, nurturance, challenge, and love at school Change school culture so that Black boys can show up in the wholeness of their selves Overcome your unconscious bias and forge authentic connections with your Black male students If you are a teacher who is afraid to talk about race, that’s okay. Fear is a normal human emotion and racial competence is a skill that can be learned. We promise that reading this extraordinary guide will be a life-changing first step forward . . . for both you and the students you serve. About the Authors Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr., has pursued and achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC to provide comprehensive diversity, privilege, and leadership trainings/workshops. Dr. Moore is recognized as one of the nation’s top motivational speakers and educators, especially for his work with students K–16. Dr. Moore is the Founder/Program Director for the White Privilege Conference, one of the top national and international conferences for participants who want to move beyond dialogue and into action around issues of diversity, power, privilege, and leadership. Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of the Race Institute for K–12 Educators, and the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry, and Education, winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. She is co-editor of the bestselling Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice and sits on the editorial board of the journal, Whiteness and Education. Dr. Michael teaches in the mid-career doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, as well as the Graduate Counseling Program at Arcadia University. Dr. Marguerite W. Penick-Parks currently serves as Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her work centers on issues of power, privilege, and oppression in relationship to issues of curriculum with a special emphasis on the incorporation of quality literature in K–12 classrooms. She appears in the movie, "Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible," by the World Trust Organization. Her most recent work includes a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing White privilege with preservice teachers.

Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Download or read book Is Marriage for White People written by Ralph Richard Banks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That sobering statistic reflects a broader reality: African Americans are the most unmarried people in our nation, and contrary to public perception the racial gap in marriage is not confined to women or the poor. Black men, particularly the most successful and affluent, are less likely to marry than their white counterparts. College educated black women are twice as likely as their white peers never to marry. Is Marriage for White People? is the first book to illuminate the many facets of the African American marriage decline and its implications for American society. The book explains the social and economic forces that have undermined marriage for African Americans and that shape everyone's lives. It distills the best available research to trace the black marriage decline's far reaching consequences, including the disproportionate likelihood of abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, single parenthood, same sex relationships, polygamous relationships, and celibacy among black women. This book centers on the experiences not of men or of the poor but of those black women who have surged ahead, even as black men have fallen behind. Theirs is a story that has not been told. Empirical evidence documents its social significance, but its meaning emerges through stories drawn from the lives of women across the nation. Is Marriage for White People? frames the stark predicament that millions of black women now face: marry down or marry out. At the core of the inquiry is a paradox substantiated by evidence and experience alike: If more black women married white men, then more black men and women would marry each other. This book not only sits at the intersection of two large and well- established markets-race and marriage-it responds to yearnings that are widespread and deep in American society. The African American marriage decline is a secret in plain view about which people want to know more, intertwining as it does two of the most vexing issues in contemporary society. The fact that the most prominent family in our nation is now an African American couple only intensifies the interest, and the market. A book that entertains as it informs, Is Marriage for White People? will be the definitive guide to one of the most monumental social developments of the past half century.

Download or read book Black Is the Body written by Emily Bernard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Black Is the Body is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages." --Elizabeth Gilbert WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR

Download or read book Loving Day written by Mat Johnson and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor.”—Los Angeles Times “Razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos.”—The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • The Miami Herald • The Denver Post • Slate • The Kansas City Star • San Antonio Express-News • Time Out New York Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of a teenage girl he meets at a comics convention he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl, Tal, is his daughter, and she’s been raised to think she’s white. Spinning from these revelations, Warren sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter he’s never known, in a haunted house with a history he knows too well. In their search for a new life, he and Tal struggle with ghosts, fall in with a utopian mixed-race cult, and ignite a riot on Loving Day, the unsung holiday for interracial lovers. A frequently hilarious, surprisingly moving story about blacks and whites, fathers and daughters, the living and the dead, Loving Day celebrates the wonders of opposites bound in love. Praise for Loving Day “Incisive . . . razor-sharp . . . that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos. The vitality of our narrator deserves much of the credit for that. He has the neurotic bawdiness of Philip Roth’s Alexander Portnoy; the keen, caustic eye of Bob Jones in Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go; the existential insight of Ellison’s Invisible Man.”—The New York Times Book Review “Exceptional . . . To say that Loving Day is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales. . . . [Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor. . . . Even when the novel’s family strife and racial politics are at peak intensity, Johnson’s comic timing is impeccable.”—Los Angeles Times “Johnson, at his best, is a powerful comic observer [and] a gifted writer, always worth reading on the topics of race and privilege.’”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Download or read book White Women Black Men written by Martha Hodes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves—and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century.