Blackness


Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Assata: An Autobiography
Black Skin, White Masks
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Homegoing
The Bluest Eye
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Women, Race & Class
Beloved
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Souls of Black Folk
Americanah
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Fire Next Time
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
71 books — 52 voters

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
19 books — 4 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

“ 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 ”
― Zachary Wood, Uncensored

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“ That morning, like every morning, the first decision he made regarded his Blackness. His skin was a deep, constant brown. In public, when people could actually see him, it was impossible to get his Blackness down to anywhere near a 1.5. If he wore a tie, wing-tipped shoes, smiled constantly, used his indoor voice, and kept his hands strapped and calm at his sides, he could get his Blackness as low as 4.0. ”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

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