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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 754,156 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
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4.49 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
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Bloodchild and other Stories
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4.34 avg rating — 27,323 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 128,030 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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4.17 avg rating — 121,506 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 302,758 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 492,328 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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4.53 avg rating — 41,035 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 262,726 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 55,985 ratings
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Negroland
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3.62 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 38,500 ratings
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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4.20 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
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3.42 avg rating — 10,521 ratings
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
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3.94 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Why Are They Angry With Us?: Essays on Race
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4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,619 ratings
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Yellow
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3.72 avg rating — 574 ratings
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
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3.95 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 20,621 ratings
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Report from Planet Midnight (PM's Outspoken Authors, #9)
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3.92 avg rating — 561 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
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4.20 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
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3.89 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
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4.31 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Ordinary Light
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3.94 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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4.40 avg rating — 23,947 ratings
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Trump and Me
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3.53 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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4.59 avg rating — 34,691 ratings
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Dust Tracks on a Road
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4.11 avg rating — 8,322 ratings
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Unbought And Unbossed
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4.45 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
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3.69 avg rating — 14,424 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,131 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 114,358 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,575 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 292,133 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 102,722 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.50 avg rating — 19,276 ratings
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Black Like Me
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4.11 avg rating — 69,676 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 45,017 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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4.34 avg rating — 27,186 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
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4.26 avg rating — 19,278 ratings
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Race Matters
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4.15 avg rating — 11,961 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,992 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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4.35 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
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4.35 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
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4.08 avg rating — 145 ratings
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
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4.36 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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4.19 avg rating — 20,080 ratings
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Good Cops: The Case For Preventive Policing
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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4.30 avg rating — 39,339 ratings
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
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3.93 avg rating — 4,314 ratings
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
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4.22 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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4.45 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture
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4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
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4.51 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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4.30 avg rating — 470 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 117,367 ratings
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
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4.37 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972
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3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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4.52 avg rating — 9,803 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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4.33 avg rating — 13,534 ratings
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
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4.19 avg rating — 5,533 ratings
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The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
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3.95 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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3.96 avg rating — 8,820 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 367,473 ratings
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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 82,410 ratings
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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4.31 avg rating — 2,076 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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4.26 avg rating — 3,393 ratings
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Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
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3.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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