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Africana Studies Books
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,026 ratings — published 1861
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,003 ratings — published 1952
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,845 ratings — published 1981
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,745 ratings — published 1981
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,840 ratings — published 1961
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,565 ratings — published 1990
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,596 ratings — published 2018
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,068 ratings — published 2020
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,417 ratings — published 1942
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,254 ratings — published 1958
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,411 ratings — published 1997
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,372 ratings — published 1845
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,223 ratings — published 1933
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,397 ratings — published 1963
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 924 ratings — published 2026
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 557 ratings — published 2025
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 10,445 ratings — published 2023
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,199 ratings — published 2025
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.57 — 193 ratings — published 2014
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.66 — 276 ratings — published 1994
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,235 ratings — published 2024
Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 2,712 ratings — published 2024
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,000 ratings — published 2022
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,527 ratings — published 2021
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.62 — 22,101 ratings — published 2021
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,685 ratings — published 2021
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,139 ratings — published 1853
Celia, A Slave: A True History of Murder and Sexual Abuse―A Landmark Trial in 1850s Missouri (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,655 ratings — published 1991
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 834 ratings — published 2009
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,360 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,632 ratings — published 1987
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,870 ratings — published 1971
Negroland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 7,967 ratings — published 2015
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,137 ratings — published 1999
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,416 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,411 ratings — published 2015
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,537 ratings — published 2015
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 248 ratings — published 2015
Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2005
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,910 ratings — published 2014
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,263 ratings — published 1995
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,858 ratings — published 1964
Killing Rage: Ending Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,937 ratings — published 1995
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 933 ratings — published
Edmonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 89 ratings — published
With Love from Harlem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,892 ratings — published 2026
A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.71 — 14 ratings — published
Yurugu - An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani Paperback (English and Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 294 ratings — published 1998
My Name Is Ona Judge (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,186 ratings — published 2022
“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.”
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