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Bold Nia Marie Passes the Test features a young girl's story about trying to pass a big test at school. In preparing for the "big test," a narrative with which many students are familiar, Nia Marie has one plan to take the easy way and has to work hard to succeed when that plan is foiled. The book helps students who may not think they have a chance to prepare and to execute a plan. It is also about who (teachers, parents), can help build that confidence and how to do so.

An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation, author Janaka Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature...

Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th century and 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on education, individual progress, marriage and family, labor, intellectual commitments and community...