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Africana Studies Books
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,198 ratings — published 1981
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,554 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,186 ratings — published 1952
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 58,055 ratings — published 1861
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,105 ratings — published 1933
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,524 ratings — published 1990
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,247 ratings — published 1963
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,793 ratings — published 2018
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,416 ratings — published 1971
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,309 ratings — published 1942
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 412,800 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 — 27,154 ratings — published 1997
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,961 ratings — published 1845
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,838 ratings — published 1964
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,455 ratings — published 1961
Killing Rage: Ending Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,902 ratings — published 1995
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 4.48 — 1,520 ratings — published 2025
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.66 — 273 ratings — published 1994
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,555 ratings — published 2024
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,405 ratings — published 2022
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,430 ratings — published 2021
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,292 ratings — published 2020
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 — 21,394 ratings — published 2021
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,533 ratings — published 2021
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 365 ratings — published 1962
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,125 ratings — published 1971
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,003 ratings — published 1853
Black Women in White America: A Documentary History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 182 ratings — published 1972
Capitalism & Slavery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,684 ratings — published 1944
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,920 ratings — published 1981
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,985 ratings — published 1950
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,329 ratings — published 2010
Celia, A Slave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,623 ratings — published 1991
I Am Not Your Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 7,593 ratings — published 2017
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 833 ratings — published 2009
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,344 ratings — published 2016
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,337 ratings — published 1987
Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,596 ratings — published 1985
Negroland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 7,912 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 — 2,121 ratings — published 1999
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,742 ratings — published 2016
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,758 ratings — published 1976
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,661 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 — 1,523 ratings — published 2015
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 246 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 — 1,901 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 — 231,146 ratings — published 1995
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,797 ratings — published 1981
Race Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,956 ratings — published 1993
“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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“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
