Reading and desire in a room of their own / The booklists of Jessie Fauset and Marita Golden -- A negro library / The booklists of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright -- On censorship and Tarzan / The booklists of John Hope Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde -- A prison library / The booklists of Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver -- The anchor bar / The booklists of Maya Angelou and James Baldwin -- A proud chestnut / The booklists of James Weldon Johnson and Nikki Giovanni -- The children's room / The booklists of Langston Hughes and Pauli Murray -- My mother's singing / The booklists of C. Eric Lincoln and Leon Forrest -- Reading race / The booklists of Henry Louis Gates and Michael Eric Dyson -- The card catalog / The booklists of Zora Neale Hurston, J. Saunders Redding, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, and Oprah Winfrey.