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Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2376
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Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 11:08 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Here on this list--and other places--there has been an ongoing debate on the worth of street lit--hiphop lit, you go girl books.

My literary heroes tend to be the likes of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Toni Cade Bambara, James Baldwin, Robert Hayden so you know where I stand--but I say to each his own. I don't read most of the so called trash, but I will not decry anyone else reading it.

At least they are reading something.

What, all you who decry the new black books, do you have that they should read instead?
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Cynique
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Post Number: 4733
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Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 11:50 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Def Jam, Inc. by Stacy Guereseva

Queens Reigns Supreme by Ethan Brown

Raising Hell by Ronin Ro

These books jump into my head as something readers of street lit can relate to and still be enlightened by - presumably. LOL
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 - 11:59 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You are learning, Cynique. Soon you will be ready to go forth and conquer the world.
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Cynique
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Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 11:22 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You certainly aren't learning, chrishayden. What was obvious apparently didn't occur to you. Now go back to square one and try to move forward with clarity of thought.

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