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PASSING by Nella Larsen (1929) via Oshun Publishing imbibed at Yanaka Coffee
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A SMALL PLACE by Jamaica Kincaid via Farrar, Straus & Giroux imbibed at Yanaka Coffee
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The photo is of a worn wooden counter against a second floor window. The white paperback book with an illustration of a painting of black children holding a white sheet to catch blond white girls in white nightgowns falling from a branch while a white male troubadour looks on from the right. To tye left is a brown paper cup of black coffee with Yanaka Coffee and its logo on it. Outside the window you can see shops across the street and the top of a bus directly below
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    TO MAKE NEGRO LITERATURE: WRITING, LITERARY PRACTICE, & AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORSHIP by Elizabeth McHenry via @dukepress brewed with Philz Coffee Philtered Soul Blend

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    PARADISE by Toni Morrison via Vintage Books imbibed at Moshi Moshi Coffee

    The photo is of a brown faux wood table on which is the worn white paperback book with a bright green yellow black & long skinny orange beak bird of paradise. To the right is a paper cup of black coffee. The cup is white interior with brown exterior with the coffee shop's logo of a 'phone' made from 2 paper cups & string
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    BEGIN AGAIN: JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA & ITS URGENT LESSONS FOR TODAY by Eddie S Glaude Jr via Vintage Books imbibed at Roar Coffee

    The photo is of seating outside a cafe against a large window. At the top you can see the ice cream area and shelving of coffee bean bags above paper cups & other cafe produced detritus. There is so much white. Outside on a tiny round table is a white coffee cup with a white lid. The white paperback book mentioned in the post has BEGIN AGAIN & the author's name in red. There is a black& white photo of the Black writer James Baldwin looking at the camera
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    YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN by Alice Walker via The Women's Fiction Press (1985) imbibed at Costa Coffee 💙📚

    The photo is of a wooden counter on which is the paperback book which has a painting of a short haired Black woman in a car looking forward with her right hand on a huge white steering wheel. She is wearing red spaghetti strapped dress. Behind her is the car's leopard print seat and blue behind that. To the left is a brown tray on which is a white coffee cup with a white plastic lid. It is brown sleeve with 3 big red beans. In front of it is a green Cookie with white chocolate chunks. It is on a red patterned paper sheet that says COSTA in round red circles
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    CROOK MANIFESTO by Colson Whitehead via @doubledaybooks imbibed at Miyakoshiya Coffee
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    The photo is of a dark brown round wooden table inside a coffeehouse. In front is a mug & saucer of black coffee. The yellow paperback book is behind it, as is a white plate with a slice of pound cake with cream. And old style wooden chair is behind the table & an alley view can be seen our the window where a blurry masked Asian woman can be seen looking at the canera
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    ERASURE by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Mills Coffee
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    The photo is outside a cafe. On a brown round wooden table is the paperback book with a black and white photo of a young Black boy smiling with a toy gun pointed at his head. He is wearing suspenders holding up jeans He is also wearing a long sleeve striped dress shirt. The book's title ERASURE is i uppercase yellow letters. To the right is a white lidded white coffee cup with "mills coffee" in red lowercase letters. Close to the table is a green painted line with white outline and a silver van passing by on the street
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