Black Studies (102 books)

Books primarily situated in, drawing on, or engaging with Black Studies. This includes Black studies works at the intersections of Disability Studies, Mad Studies Women's and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, women of colour feminisms, queer of colour critique, colonial studies, prison studies, Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, Black history, labor studies, migration studies, surveillance studies, Disability Justice, trans studies, abolition studies, Black art and media, performance studies, feminist studies, and more.

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1	Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 60 ratings score: 300, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons by Colin Kaepernick (editor) 4.07 avg rating — 312 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 4,208 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense Spillers 4.43 avg rating — 101 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 3,657 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon 4.26 avg rating — 19,211 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 4.38 avg rating — 7,129 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson 4.35 avg rating — 153 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 4.29 avg rating — 2,629 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott 4.26 avg rating — 65 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem by Howard L. Sacks 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction) 4.36 avg rating — 6,539 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21) by Christopher M. Bell (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena J. Epstein 4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand 4.25 avg rating — 995 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles by W.E.B. Du Bois 4.37 avg rating — 362 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 4.47 avg rating — 2,345 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G. Weheliye 4.29 avg rating — 397 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Black Panthers For Beginners by Herb Boyd 3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde 4.53 avg rating — 40,989 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King 4.49 avg rating — 206 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson 4.24 avg rating — 290 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick 4.52 avg rating — 235 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography by Lorraine Hansberry 4.42 avg rating — 2,826 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 185 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53) by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 4.44 avg rating — 165 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family by Gail Lumet Buckley 3.69 avg rating — 248 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Zong! by Marlene NourbeSe Philip 4.13 avg rating — 1,789 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,088 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series) by Maegan Parker Brooks 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties by Combahee River Collective 4.72 avg rating — 473 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 964 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III 4.25 avg rating — 936 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Making of Black Revolutionaries by James Forman 4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde 4.40 avg rating — 23,912 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens 4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney 4.40 avg rating — 899 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet by Pauli Murray 4.50 avg rating — 101 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur 4.60 avg rating — 31,415 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America by E. James West 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L.H. Stallings 4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois 4.52 avg rating — 3,313 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba 4.63 avg rating — 5,981 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker 4.43 avg rating — 2,435 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry 4.29 avg rating — 3,676 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith 4.21 avg rating — 886 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 4.51 avg rating — 30,210 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker – A Century of Groundbreaking Essays, Profiles, and Reporting on Race in America by Jelani Cobb (Editor/Foreword) 4.47 avg rating — 235 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley 4.37 avg rating — 1,190 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government by Gregorio "Greg" Francis 3.92 avg rating — 50 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle Wald 4.06 avg rating — 350 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice by Hanna Garth (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 88 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism by Jared Sexton 4.48 avg rating — 71 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia by Mary Frances Early 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde 4.43 avg rating — 5,467 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 by Manning Marable 4.21 avg rating — 222 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo by Tom Feelings 4.51 avg rating — 332 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness by Maya Ealey 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit by Marlon M. Bailey 4.28 avg rating — 135 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth 4.31 avg rating — 127 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi 4.45 avg rating — 604 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction by William Henry Chafe 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith 4.46 avg rating — 12,381 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives – A Definitive History from an Emmy Award-Winning Journalist by Charlayne Hunter-Gault really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie 4.42 avg rating — 311 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership by Brea Baker 4.48 avg rating — 326 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing by Stephanie Andrea Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 146 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies by D.K. Publishing 4.41 avg rating — 155 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 5,491 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy by Deondra Rose 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Black Girl Magic by Mahogany L. Browne (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 944 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present by Mary Frances Berry 3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Matt Richardson 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America by Rita Omokha (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley 4.49 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake by Judith Weisenfeld 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones 3.75 avg rating — 1,602 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism by Keidrick Roy (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson 4.38 avg rating — 1,573 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Laurie Matheson (Compiler) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson 4.34 avg rating — 386 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology by Tammy L. Kernodle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Black Body by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson 3.82 avg rating — 220 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers 4.24 avg rating — 2,367 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945 by Vanessa Northington Gamble 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde by Gloria I. Joseph (Editor) 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Matthew D. Morrison 4.55 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon 4.35 avg rating — 32,528 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura Helton 4.65 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest by Terrion L. Williamson (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 142 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition (The Feminist Wire Books) by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper 4.41 avg rating — 249 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity (Critical Cultural Communication, 27) by Ralina Joseph 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 543 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems (National Poetry Series) by Dominique Christina 4.48 avg rating — 103 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton 4.49 avg rating — 7,152 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism by Tamari Kitossa (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa J. Fuentes 4.40 avg rating — 428 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars