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"This series of poems chronicles Woodson’s experiences in South Carolina and New York in the 1960s and ’70s under Jim Crow and with the civil rights movement.
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4.46 avg rating — 577 ratings

"What does Blackness have to do within the modern surveillance state? Beautiful and theoretical, Simone Browne details how Black life from slavery to the present has been subjugated by the constancy of being watched and how Black people have resisted."

4.28 avg rating — 350,785 ratings

"This is a science fiction novel set on a planet called Stillness, where, every few centuries, inhabitants experience a “fifth season” of climate change and environmental chaos. With this book, Jemisin was the first African American to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel — a breakthrough for Black women in a traditionally White-dominated oeuvre."

4.35 avg rating — 6,865 ratings

"Monique Morris uncovers “the combination of punitive measurements within schools; cultural sanctions related to gender and sexuality in young adulthood that wrap around schools, communities, and culture; and the dominant culture’s ideas about who is allowed to be a young girl,” Cottom says. Morris also explains “how this all works together to push Black girls out in a way that is quite hard to track empirically.”
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4.02 avg rating — 5,069 ratings

"This provocative play is set in Reading, Pennsylvania, where the relationships between blue-collar workers are tested during a time of heightened economic insecurity."

4.17 avg rating — 213 ratings

"A very important book about how ideas of ‘justice’ and ‘injustice’ are mediated and mitigated through schools to unfairly target, marginalize, and funnel Black students into the criminal justice system,” Cottom says."

4.46 avg rating — 15,076 ratings

"Two steps forward, one step back: White Rage deftly crafts the pattern of how White backlash has always countered African American progress."

3.83 avg rating — 4,443 ratings

"A posthumously published short-story collection by the multihyphenate artist Kathleen Collins that intimately delves into the themes of family, desire, race, gender, and sexuality."

4.44 avg rating — 37,356 ratings

"A far-reaching work that connects the Black American struggle to that of global struggles, transnational Blackness, communities, and the flows of capital and technology.
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4.41 avg rating — 261 ratings

"An essential and important intervention in how we even talk about ourselves as Black women thinkers or feminists or womanists,” Cottom says. “It’s about respecting the intellectual traditions and histories of Black women theorists.”"

4.46 avg rating — 4,798 ratings

"The Combahee River Collective was a Black feminist lesbian organization whose aims exposed the pitfalls of mainstream (White) feminism and the civil rights movement in not being more intersectional in their actions. Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor edits a Black feminist collection with an introductory essay, interviews, and chapters of comments in which present-day problems are explored."

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"This award-winning novel focuses on a Mississippi family grappling with drugs, familial duty, and the horrors of incarceration as depicted by a ghost child who follows them on their way to pick up the father from Parchman prison."

3.93 avg rating — 397,543 ratings

"An African American couple should be celebrating their new marriage, but the husband is wrongfully accused of rape, and his sentencing torpedoes their relationship."

4.25 avg rating — 2,547 ratings

"Professor Ruha Benjamin pens a most prescient book in which she argues that automation will exacerbate racial discrimination, even if its surface appears benevolent and helpful to our technological society."

4.40 avg rating — 5,244 ratings

"Saidiya Hartman, a MacArthur Fellowship grant recipient and Columbia professor, brilliantly displays her storytelling and archival talents by detailing the intimate lives of African American people at the dawn of the 20th century."

4.30 avg rating — 2,814 ratings

"A poetry collection from the prolific writer that praises, upends, and defies expectations of Black womanhood."