Black Studies


Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Black Skin, White Masks
The Fire Next Time
The Souls of Black Folk
The Wretched of the Earth
Assata: An Autobiography
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Invisible Man
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBuck by M.K. AsanteThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black biography
237 books — 62 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Radical Thoughts for the 21st Century
206 books — 111 voters
Freeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinAbolition for the People by Colin KaepernickIn the Wake by Christina SharpeBlack, White, and in Color by Hortense SpillersAt the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Black Studies
102 books — 10 voters

If I am a man, I am a man who always questions, who is driven to ask with a visceral urgency as irresistible and insatiable as an itch in a fold of my brain.
La Marr Jurelle Bruce

Danielle  Evans
I was jealous, of course, partly that by avoiding the academic race beat, Genie had sidestepped the daily trauma of the historical record, the sometimes brutality and sometimes banality of anti-Blackness, the loop of history that was always a noose if you looked at it long enough.
Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

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