 | Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Buy new: $69.95 / Used from: $141.15 Explores the dirty history of American science-fiction and science from the Cold War Era neo-liberal sci-fi'ers don't want to admit to.
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 | Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life Series) by Sam Greenlee
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $6.67 Thriller/spy parody about a black man who makes it into the FBI through a government sponsored program designed for black men to fail. Secretly learning paramilitary tactics while working as a secretary, he quits and forms an insurgent task force while masquerading as a social worker. The movie is great, too.
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 | Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.85 Dana is transported back in time to the slave era to a Southern plantation where her master is destined to father one of her ancestors. One of my favorite books.
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 | Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $7.55 Story of an interracial couple and the first fully documented alien abduction in America.
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 | Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (America and the Long 19th Century) by Elizabeth Young
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $19.99 The title says it all.
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 | The African Origins of UFOs (Salt Modern Fiction) by Anthony Joseph
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $15.25 Speculative prose poetry.
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 | The Between by Tananarive Due
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.25 TD's first novel.
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 | Frankenhood
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.46 Light-hearted comedy. You will laugh out loud.
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 | The Brother From Another Planet
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.96 Hilarious. Watched this for a contemporary African-American Lit class.
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 | Black No More by George S. Schuyler
Buy used from: $15.99 Another laugh out loud fav. A scientist develops a process which turns blacks white. Chaos (and hilarity) ensues.
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 | Black Empire (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by George Samuel Schuyler
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $4.50 Originally serialized in a newspaper. Wealthy mad scientist secretly takes over the world.
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 | Beloved by Toni Morrison
Buy new: $6.68 / Used from: $0.29 Best ghost story ever.
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