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Street Lit
Urban fiction, also known as Street lit, is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape. Urban fiction was is a genre written mostly by African Americans. In his famous essay “The Souls of Black Folk,” W. E. B. Du Bois discussed how a veil separated the African American community from the outside world.
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What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't help matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness.
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― Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
― Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame
This group is for those classy women with a little bit of ratchet in them or gentlemen with a hi…more
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last active 7 years ago
New Generation Urban Book Club is geared toward new authors that wish to share their work.
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With more than 650 BOOKS on the group's shelf, Urban Romance & Street Lit is a guilty pleasure I…more
361 members,
last active 2 years ago
Hello this is Bow Tiez and Bangles Book group. My name is Lola and I love urban books.
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