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The Souls of Black Folk
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
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Women, Race & Class
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
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Assata: An Autobiography
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
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Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years
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Invisible Man
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class ― A Fascinating Social History of Wealthy Dynasties and Exclusive Clubs
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Song of Solomon
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Beloved
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The Intuitionist
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The Color Purple (The Color Purple, #1)
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The Weary Blues
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The White Boy Shuffle
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – The Towering Biography of the Flamboyant Congressman Known as 'Mr. Civil Rights'
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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Black Boy
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Native Son
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The Miseducation of the Negro
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Up from Slavery
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Annie Allen
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Africana
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
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The Sellout
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Negroland
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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