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Chesya Burke

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Happy to report that Publishers Weekly reviewed and seemed to enjoy Let's Play White. Here's a tidbit:

"Haunted by history and past wrongs, Burke's characters are never alone, never safe, never comfortable. ...the depth of Burke's characters, the weight of their decisions, and their choices make this the very opposite of escapist fantasy."

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	Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele (Editor/Introduction), Erin E. Adams (Goodreads Author), Violet Allen (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 13,724 ratings — published 2023 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Autumn Deering (Editor)(Contributor), Amy McFadden (Narrator) 3.65 avg rating — 2,250 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror by John F.D. Taff (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author), Ramsey Campbell 3.42 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers (Dark Dreams, #1) by Brandon Massey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Zane (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Robert Fleming (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let's Play White 3.99 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Crimes of Little Africa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[African American National Biography Supplementary] (By: W E B Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W E B Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research Henry Louis Gates Jr.) [published: January, 2013] by Chesya Burke (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Redemption in Indigo

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“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”
― Chesya Burke, Chocolate Park

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“When one homeless man eats another on the streets of Chicago, it’s unfortunate; if he eats a businessman on his way home from the office, it’s a tragedy; and when it happens on the six o’clock news, it’s a national emergency. It”
― Chesya Burke, Let's Play White

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“Zora often wondered if at this point they all just catered to the whims of whites, and it had ceased being a Negro movement altogether, and now they were all merely playing the part of what whites thought blacks should be.”
― Chesya Burke, The Strange Crimes of Little Africa

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Chesya’s Quotes

“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

tags: dubois, identity, pragmatism

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“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”
― Chesya Burke, Chocolate Park

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