Black History

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves" is a fascinating book about a little known phenomenon in 17th century Brazil. For the full span of the century, a nation of fugitive slaves—some 20,000 people—struggled to survive. They were at almost constant war with the most powerful empires on earth. Nevertheless, they sustained several cities, one a citadel fortress atop a mountain. They had an egalitarian society where women and men were equals. They had a quasi-parliamentary government. Over the course of 100 years, these people from all over Africa (plus some Brazilian Ind ...more

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
The Souls of Black Folk
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Underground Railroad
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Color Purple
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Colson Whitehead
When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them.
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

P. Djèlí Clark
They like the places where we hurt. They use it against us. The words of the girl, my other self from the dream place, strikes with sudden understanding. The places where we hurt. Where we hurt. Not just me, all of us, colored folk everywhere, who carry our wounds with us, sometimes open for all to see, but always so much more buried and hidden deep. I remember the songs that come with all those visions. Songs full of hurt. Songs full of sadness and tears. Songs pulsing with pain. A righteous an ...more
P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

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