Go Girl: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure is the first travel book by and
for
African American women, an anthology of 52 riveting traveler’s tales by writers such as Maya
Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, Alice Walker and Pearl Cleage. It also
includes a planning guide and resource guide. Go Girl was published by Eighth Mountain Press
in 1997. Click here for more information about the book including reviews and updates.
Steppin' Out: An African American Entertainment Guide to Our 20 Favorite Cities
by Carla Labat, Avalon Publishing, 2000, 351 pages, $17.95 (It highlights historical
landmarks, churches, restaurants, nightclubs, art and culture venues with over 1,000 entries.)
The African American Travel Guide
by Wayne Robinson, Hunter Publishing, 1998, 308 pages, $15.95 (A city by city guide to black
sites, hotels, restaurants and clubs in the United States)
A Long Way from St. Louie: Travel Memoirs
by Colleen McEllroy, Coffee Table Press, 1997, 241 pages $13.95, which is a stunning collage of
international travel stories by one of America's classiest and sassiest poets. She puts the word
ust back into wanderlust.
Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing
by Cheryl Fish and Farah Griffin, Beacon Press, 1998, 366 pages, $25.00 (Dispatches, diaries,
memoirs, letters from African American Travelers in search of home, justice and adventure.)
Caribbean Bound: Culture, Roots, People and Places
by Linda Cousins, Universal African Writer Press, 1994, 198 pages, $10.95 (A travel guide that
includes valuable and exciting information about the Caribbean countries and their culture.)
Adventures of a Continental Drifter: An Around-the-World Excursion into Weirdness, Danger,
Lust, and the Perils of Street Food, by Elliott Hester, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005
Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet by
Elliott Hester, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2003
Native Stranger: Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa by Eddy L. Harris,
Simon & Schuster, 1992,
Girl In the Mirror
by Natasha Tarpley, Beacon Press, 1998, 181 pages, $22 (A family memoir told in the voice of
three generations of travelers)
Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light
by Tyler Stovall, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996, 366 pages, $24.95.
(Chronicles the life and times of the African American presence in Paris)
Black Girl in Paris
by Shay Youngblood, Riverhead Books, 2000, 256 pages, $12.00. (An intriguing examination
of the twentieth century African-American history in the French capital through the dreams of
a young expatriate)
Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in the Jazz-Age Paris
by Craig Lloyd, University of Georgia Press, 2000, $26.95 (profile of a jazz drummer and
freedom fighter who live in Paris during the early part of the 1900's)
Black Woman Walking: A Different Experience of World Travel
by Maureen Stone, BeaGay Publications, 2003, $17.95 (Chronicles the writers walks
around in numerous countries around the world)
Richard Wright's Travel Writings
edited by Virginia Smith, University of Mississippi Press, 2001, $18.00 (Chronicles the
author's travel writing from 1946 to 1960)
Satisfy Your Soul: A Guide to African American Restaurants
by Carla Labat, Impression Books, 1997, 205 pages, $10.95(This guide has information
on over 250 restaurants in over 20 U.S. cities.)
No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South
by Gary Younge, University of Mississippi Press, 2002, $18 (The story of a black Englishman's
amazing trek through Dixie to connect with his racial identity)
Kattraxing Through Paris
by Kat St. Thomas, Regent Press, 2002, $20 (Veteran tour guide provides the inside scoop
on Black Paris)
Paris Reflections: Walks Through Black Paris
by Christianne Anderson and Monique Wells, McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company,
2002, $17.95 (The book outlines six detailed walks through Black Paris)
The African-American Travel Guide to Hot, Exotic and Fun-Filled Places
by Jon Haggins, Amber Books, 2002, $15 (A guidebook geared to group traveler interested
in travel to select locations in Africa, Caribbean, South America and South Pacific).
Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
by Robert Steptoe, Beacon Press, 1998, $18 (Chronicles his summer vacations at an African
American resort in Northern Michigan)
An African in Greenland
by TETE-Michel Kpomassie, New York Review Books, 2001 (Chronicles the author's travels
in Greenland)
Mandela, Mobuto and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey
by Lynn Duke, Doubleday Press, 2003, $16 (This Washington Post's Johannesburg bureau
chief [1995-1999] takes readers on a memorable adventure through Southern and Central Africa).
Yet a Stranger: Why Black American Still Don't Feel at Home
by Deborah Mathis, Warner Books, 2002, $18(Though not a travel book it explores and explains
why many African Americans still feel excluded in America and why some chose to become
expatriates)
Black Paris: The African Writer's Landscape
by Benetta Jules-Rosette, University of Illinois Press, 2000, $17.95 (Focuses on the Parisian
Negritude movement from the perspective of writers of African descent. Includes interviews,
poetry and insightful essays)
In Their Footsteps: A Guide to African American Heritage Sites
by Henry Chase, Holt Publishers, 1994, 584 pages, $35 (Covers over 1,000 landmarks,
including museums, churches, cultural centers, parks and much more. Includes essays by
famous writers)
Historic Black Landmarks
by George Cantor, Visible Ink Press, 1991, 372 pages, $17.95 (This fully illustrated book takes
you on a guided tour of over 300 landmarks uniquely related to black history and culture.)
African American Historic Places
by Beth Savage, Published by the National Park Service, 1994, 623 pages, $25.95
(A compressive guide to African American landmarks with an impressive forward on black history)
Roots Recovered: The How To Guide for Tracing African-American and West Indian Roots
Back to Africa and Going There for Free or on a Shoestring Budget
by James White and Jean-Gontran Quenum, 2004, self published. www.rootsrecovered.com
The Travel Professionalís Guide to Black Paris:A guide designed to help you help your
client discover Black Paris and to help you sell Paris as a heritage destination. The treatment
of
Blacks in Paris; museums and monuments from an Afro-centric perspective; contemporary music,
fashion and other cultural venues; and Afro-centric restaurants are among the many topics that
we address in this publication.The 77-page document is currently available as a downloadable
PDF file at the following link:http://www.discoverparis.net/details.html?item=1164712852783148#
Travel%20Professional's %20Guide,For more info contact: Monique Y. Wells,
info@discoverparis.net
Other Publications:
Pathfinder's Magazine: A Travel Magazine for People of Color
by Weller and Pamela Thomas (www.pathfinderstravel.com)
Odyssey Couleur/Travel in Color
by Idamar Enterprises (www.odysseymc.com)
Black Meetings and Tourism
by Solomon and Gloria Herbert (http://www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com)
The Journal of African Travel Writing
A semi-annual journal published by University of North Carolina Press
Excellent Travel Information booksite: Ugogurl.com
Our goal is to support and read books written by people of color, build relationships among group members, and discuss how literature relates to our lives and the community. We strive to attend one literary event per year and to contribute to our community through various donations and fundraisers.
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Spotlight of Survival
What is The What
By Dave Eggers
June Reading
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated.
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Adrienne Cooke, both a book club member and a Warm Spirit Consultant will donate 1% of sales purchased through Sisters That Are Reading website to help fundraising efforts by the bookclub. In past years STAR has donated money to women prisons, non-profit agencies, and book scholarships for student who were heading to college. We would like to continue this tradition. Please go to WWW. Warm Spirit.org/Adrienne23984
Fruit of The Lemon
By Andrea Levy
Ghetto Nation
By Cora Daniels
Rebone
By Ron Stodgehill
I Say a Little Prayer
By E. Lynn Harris
Letters to a Young Brother
By Hill Harper
Don't make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings
By Tyler Perry
Mama Made the Difference
By T.D. Jakes
What I know For Sure
By Tavis Smiley
When Someone Love You Back
By Mary B. Morrison
She Ain't the One
By Carl Weber &
Mary B. Morrison
It's No Secret
By Carmen Bryan
Love & Lies
By Kimberla Lawson Roby
By Elaine Lee
GHANA - 2005
GHANA - 2005
Girl, Get Your Credit Straight!
By Glinda Bridforth
The Convenant
By Tavis Smiley
Every Woman's Got a Secret
By Brenda L. Thomas
The Fire Down in My Soul
By J.D. Mason
Turn Up the Heat
By G. Garvin
The Color of Jade
By Glora Mallette
Color Me Butterfly
By L.Y. Marlow
The Measure of A Man
By Sidney Poitier
The Hip Hope Generation
By Bakari Kitwana
GHANA - 2005
GHANA - 2005
JOANNE O'NEAL
Happenings...
Whether it's a local event or a short stay, we have a list of various book related tours and events for you...
May 1 - 4, 2008 A Literary Retreat in San Francisco
July 12 - 19, 2008 Avid Readers' 2008 Mediterranean Cruise
October 3-5, 2008 A Literary Retreat in Virginia Beach, VA
For more information about the trips above www.literarysisters.com
Check out David Lamb's new play "Auction Block to Hip Hop."
Sisters That Are Reading went see the play for Black History Month. It's a thought provoking performance that's well worth seeing.
Now playing at the Florence Gould Hall
55 E. 59th St. (btwn. Park & Madison)
New York, NY
For tickets visit: www.ticketmaster.com or call (212) 307-4100
I Say a Little Prayer
By E. Lynn Harris
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.
In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.
Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.
