African American Studies


Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Souls of Black Folk
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Invisible Man
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
How to Be an Antiracist
The Color Purple
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
42 books — 32 voters
Founding Mothers by Cokie RobertsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin DowneyMadam Secretary by Madeleine K. AlbrightFreedom's Daughters by Lynne Olson
Women in the U.S.
251 books — 33 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerKindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Books by Black Authors
912 books — 367 voters
I Rode with Morgan by Jonathan JacksonI Rode with Morgan by Jonathan M. Jackson Sr.The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoMornings on Horseback by David McCullough
New York State History (nonfiction)
205 books — 39 voters


Malcolm spent much of May speaking to large crowds at church meetings and Sunday rallies, repeatedly emphasizing that the Muslims were not at war with the police, but rather that the police were at war with the Black community as a whole.
Mike Davis, John Wiener

Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not necessarily given up negative racial stereotypes" or "negative sentiments and beliefs about African Americans. ...more
John Hoberman, Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

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