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
The Fire Next Time
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Invisible Man
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“ 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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