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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 290,641 ratings
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 579,631 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.13 avg rating — 134,619 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 — 116,501 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,848 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.11 avg rating — 36,048 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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3.94 avg rating — 230,956 ratings
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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3.84 avg rating — 169,624 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,766 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 68,696 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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4.39 avg rating — 7,486 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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4.59 avg rating — 34,389 ratings
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
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3.78 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 411,499 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 31,141 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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4.44 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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My Country, Too: The Other Black Music
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Black Battalion 1916-1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
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3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Richard Allen: An Apostle of Freedom
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
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3.94 avg rating — 266 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.34 avg rating — 24,016 ratings
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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4.24 avg rating — 798 ratings
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
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3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Black Loyalists
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3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.17 avg rating — 57,951 ratings
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
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4.04 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
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3.95 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 4,165 ratings
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
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4.46 avg rating — 2,848 ratings
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Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
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3.76 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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4.10 avg rating — 10,642 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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4.45 avg rating — 5,595 ratings
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
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4.30 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Making of Black Revolutionaries
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4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
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4.29 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 124,766 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
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4.13 avg rating — 11,629 ratings
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
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4.13 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.43 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
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3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Silver Rights: The story of the Carter family's brave decision to send their children to an all-white school and claim their civil rights
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4.03 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
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3.82 avg rating — 3,446 ratings
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Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy
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4.20 avg rating — 143 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
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3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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3.74 avg rating — 14,742 ratings
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The Negro's Origin (1869)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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4.28 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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4.21 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Boley, a Negro Town in the West (1908)
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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4.15 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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4.20 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
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4.26 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
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3.77 avg rating — 346 ratings
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An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
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4.27 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
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4.12 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
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4.51 avg rating — 172 ratings
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'Black Sam' Fraunces: Revolutionary War Spy, Hero and Man of Color
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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3.93 avg rating — 8,345 ratings
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
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3.78 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
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3.91 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Black Southern Voices: An Anthology
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
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4.26 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
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4.03 avg rating — 377 ratings
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The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
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4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 117,046 ratings
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation
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3.48 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Black Farmers in America
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4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
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4.27 avg rating — 8,949 ratings
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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
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3.87 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
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3.95 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
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4.29 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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Till the Dark Angel Comes: Abolitionism and the Road to the Second American Revolution
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2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From Superman to Man
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4.58 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years
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3.56 avg rating — 401 ratings
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My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South
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4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,925 ratings
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro
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4.51 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 201,680 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
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4.11 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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4.03 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Robert E. Lee's Orderly: A Modern Black Man's Confederate Journey
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4.48 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 45,772 ratings
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,527 ratings
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
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4.13 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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3.83 avg rating — 10,507 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 81,333 ratings
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
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4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
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4.27 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
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3.74 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Against the Odds
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Song of Solomon
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4.16 avg rating — 127,149 ratings
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Black Colleges of Atlanta, The (GA) (College History Series)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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