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Themes labels used: grief, anxiety, racism, racial profiling, prejudice, generational trauma, Black boy joy, Black masculinity, toxic masculinity, manhood, family history, death awareness, agency vs fate, joy amid oppression, resilience, loss, healing, vulnerability, coming of age, inheritance

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due · 2023

A layered horror and speculative fiction collection where Black-centered stories weave dread, hope, and social terror across time.

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Themes labels: racism · racial trauma · Black experience · dementia · grief · loss · family · resilience · hope · hope amid dread · trauma · abuse · cycles of violence · pandemics · survival · gentrification · oppression · law enforcement violence · government overreach · freedom · autonomy · identity · history · generational trauma · social commentary · class

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Gone Wolf

Amber McBride · 2023

A Black girl in a brutal future and a pandemic-shaken present use stories, truth, and imagination to survive and heal.

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Themes labels: racism · slavery · oppression · freedom · hope · grief · trauma · mental health · racial identity · Black empowerment · history and memory · truth and lies · resilience · pandemic · generational trauma · storytelling · imagination · isolation · civil rights

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A Phoenix First Must Burn

Patrice Caldwell, Elizabeth Acevedo, Amerie, Dhonielle Clayton, Jalissa Corrie, Somaiya Daud, Charlotte Nicole Davis, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Justina Ireland, Danny Lore, L.L. McKinney, Danielle Paige, Rebecca Roanhorse, Karen Strong, Ashley Woodfolk, Ibi Zoboi · 2020

Sixteen YA speculative stories center Black girls and Black women across fantasy, sci-fi, myth, and magic.

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Themes labels: love · betrayal · strength · resistance · hope · healing · freedom · oppression · colonization · racial oppression · structural racism · slavery · beauty standards · colorism · self-worth · self-discovery · identity · survival · revenge · justice · community · body positivity · mental health · environmental racism · patriarchy · Black joy · Black girlhood · personal growth

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Grievers

Adrienne Maree Brown · 2021 · Grievers

In a quarantined Detroit, a grieving young woman hunts the cause of a Black-only plague while trying to survive loss.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · mourning · collective grief · personal grief · Black grief · survival · community care · activism · social justice · racism · inequality · poverty · gentrification · public health · death rituals · memory · belonging · resilience · hope · intergenerational trauma · care work · obligation · purpose · justice

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More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera · 2015

A Bronx teen considers a memory-erasing procedure that could free him from pain—or erase his true self.

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Themes labels: sexuality · homophobia · depression · suicide · memory · identity · self-acceptance · trauma · grief · class · race · ethnicity · happiness · acceptance · forgiveness · pain · choice · nature vs nurture · masculinity · social prejudice

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The Fallen Fruit

Shawntelle Madison · 2024

A history professor inherits family land and uncovers a generations-old curse that sends her ancestors back through time.

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Themes labels: fate · free will · generational trauma · family legacy · grief · loss · survival · resilience · freedom · slavery · civil rights · racism · segregation · Black history · ancestry · history repeating itself · sacrifice · hope · love · perseverance · memory · inheritance · motherhood · education · identity · community · faith

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Ring Shout

P. Djèlí Clark · 2020

A Black woman with a magic sword leads a resistance against demonic Ku Kluxes in 1920s Georgia.

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Themes labels: racism · white supremacy · hate · resistance · revenge · survival · justice · grief · healing · trauma · generational trauma · community · hope · redemption · righteous anger · propaganda · history and memory · racial violence · slavery

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The Between

Tananarive Due · 1995

A man haunted by childhood survival and racist threats begins to lose the line between nightmare and reality.

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Themes labels: racism · white supremacy · Black life · mental health · grief · loss · death · mortality · fear of death · family protection · marriage stress · reality · identity · sanity · trauma · generational sacrifice · social commentary · AIDS epidemic · homophobia · stalking · psychological breakdown · second chances

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Stranger Things: Zombie Boys

Greg Pak · 2020 · Stranger Things: Graphic Novels

After season 1, the Hawkins kids cope with trauma and school by making a zombie movie for extra credit.

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Themes labels: trauma recovery · coping · fear · catharsis · friendship · belonging · normalcy · coming of age · bullying · racism · representation · processing grief · art as therapy · positivity · self-acceptance · masculinity

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The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin · 2016 · The Broken Earth

In a dying Earth, Essun’s search for her daughter collides with buried truths, shifting loyalties, and world-ending power.

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Themes labels: oppression · racism · prejudice · otherness · inequality · survival · identity · trauma · generational trauma · motherhood · fatherhood · power and responsibility · justice · community · belonging · love and fear · environmental collapse · colonialism · discrimination · humanity

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Clap Back

Nalo Hopkinson · 2021

A Black designer and a protest artist clash over tech, memory, and anti-racist rebellion in a fragmented speculative future.

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Themes labels: racism · racial equity · exploitation · commodification · cultural appropriation · identity · memory · forgiveness · legacy · resistance · hope · power · ownership · representation · social justice · intergenerational trauma

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Flight

Sherman Alexie · 2007

An angry foster teen is hurled through history, forced to inhabit other lives and confront violence, identity, and empathy.

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Themes labels: identity · revenge · violence · forgiveness · empathy · historical trauma · racism · oppression · self-acceptance · belonging · family · abandonment · abuse · shame · betrayal · redemption · humanity · cycle of violence · justice · grief · history and memory · intergenerational trauma · loss · alienation · racial identity

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