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Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,694 ratings — published 1981
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,569 ratings — published 1861
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,566 ratings — published 1952
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,287 ratings — published 1981
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,583 ratings — published 1990
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,132 ratings — published 2020
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,904 ratings — published 1961
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,978 ratings — published 1963
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,104 ratings — published
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,424 ratings — published 1987
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,473 ratings — published 1942
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,894 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 — 27,582 ratings — published 1997
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,702 ratings — published 1845
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,302 ratings — published 1933
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,251 ratings — published 2026
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,151 ratings — published 2025
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,341 ratings — published 2026
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,262 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,504 ratings — published 2017
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 583 ratings — published 2025
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,946 ratings — published 1903
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 11,636 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 — 2,491 ratings — published 2025
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.58 — 199 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 — 277 ratings — published 1994
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,431 ratings — published 2024
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,376 ratings — published 2021
Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 2,784 ratings — published 2024
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,394 ratings — published 2022
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 294,054 ratings — published 1979
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,579 ratings — published 2021
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,934 ratings — published 2003
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 — 22,491 ratings — published 2021
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,176 ratings — published 2021
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 127,133 ratings — published 1853
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,403 ratings — published 2010
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 — 1,668 ratings — published 1991
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 844 ratings — published 2009
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,362 ratings — published 2016
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,607 ratings — published 2015
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,244 ratings — published 1971
Negroland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 8,000 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 — 2,140 ratings — published 1999
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,530 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,966 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 — 1,544 ratings — published 2015
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 252 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
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,286 ratings — published 1860
“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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“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
