AB in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis and her MLIS at San Jose State University, she is now a librarian for a public library system in Southern Arizona, where she lives with her husband and an ever-growing collection of Funko!Pops. Black Love Matters is her first book.
At Book Riot Pryde tagged ten books, nonfiction and historical fiction, that place real Black women in history front and center. One title on the list:
The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara CooneyRead about another entry on the list.
Many of us went through an Ancient Egypt phase as kids (and some of us never grew out of it). How much of that time was spent learning about Hatshepsut? If you got more than a few minutes, you were lucky! Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general, was a master of strategy who maneuvered her way into being the second woman in Egypt to be named a Pharaoh. Kara Cooney is a storied Egyptologist who has done several deep dives through the thousand-year-long Egyptian civilization, and her writing is incredibly approachable, no matter your starting point. (Note: while some people might draw a line between Southwest Asia and North Africa identity and Sub-Saharan African identity when it comes to who might be considered “Black,” I attribute the title to anyone with full ties to the continent.)
The Page 99 Test: The Woman Who Would Be King.
--Marshal Zeringue
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