• 6 - James Baldwin

  • Feb 23 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Content Warnings: abortion, death, homophobia, racism

    Happy Black History month continued! Today, we are talking about Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, some of the themes of the book, and how Baldwin's life paralleled the fiction he created!

    Books Mentioned:
    Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
    Comics for Choice: Whit Taylor, Hazel Newlevant, Ø.K. Fox
    Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (2019)
    Marbles, Ellen Forney
    Outlaw Marriages, Rodger Streitmatter
    Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present (2011), Robin R. Means Coleman
    The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
    Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
    Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin
    Bones of the Coast, Cloudscape Anthology

    Peek at Next Week: The Deep by Rivers Solomon

    Comics for Choice (link: [http://comicsforchoice.com/](http://comicsforchoice.com/))
    Victor LaValle's website: [http://www.victorlavalle.com](http://www.victorlavalle.com/)

    You can reach us at:
    River Instagram: @huckleberry.comics
    Wake Instagram: @notaclevernamer
    Show email: littlequeerlibrarypod@gmail.com
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