Blackness


Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Assata: An Autobiography
Black Skin, White Masks
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Homegoing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Americanah
The Bluest Eye
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Women, Race & Class
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Kindred
The Souls of Black Folk
Raising Free People by Akilah S. RichardsUntigering by Iris  ChenGuerrilla Learning by Grace LlewellynRevolutionary Mothering by Alexis Pauline GumbsThinking In Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Parenting for Liberation
18 books — 3 voters
Slavery at Sea by Sowande M. MustakeemDispossessed Lives by Marisa J. FuentesFreedom Papers by Rebecca J. ScottBlack on Both Sides by C. Riley SnortonGood Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown
#BlackWomanhood
22 books — 1 voter

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
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Women's prison memoirs
67 books — 49 voters

I was also aware of the fact that in the black community, respectability politics was often seen as being at odds with what it meant to be "authentically black." To me, there was not such thing as being authentically black. OF course, being seen as "authentically white" wasn't something my white peers had to concern themselves with. ...more
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Robert Fanney
A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That on volcano's Vomit rise A Stone of ruin From burn to chill Like black moonrise Her voice fell still... ...more
Robert Fanney

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