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
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterFamily Properties by Beryl SatterAmerican Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reading List
19 books — 11 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,673 books — 3,630 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

Thelonious Monk by Robin D.G. KelleyMiles by Miles DavisA Love Supreme by Ashley KahnMoving to Higher Ground by Wynton MarsalisBlue Note by Graham Marsh
Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
232 books — 61 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

He didn’t proselytize at the get-togethers,” Otis recalled. “His talks with us dealt with standing together, respecting our traditions, defending our communities, treating our women with love and care, being responsible toward our children and not taking abuse from the racists in our society.” (On Malcolm X)
Mike Davis, John Wiener

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