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Africana Studies Books
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Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,228 ratings — published 1981
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,322 ratings — published 1861
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,283 ratings — published 1952
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,081 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 — 5,577 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 — 65,652 ratings — published 2020
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,385 ratings — published 1961
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,242 ratings — published 1963
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,853 ratings — published 2018
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,034 ratings — published 1987
Dust Tracks on a Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,444 ratings — published 1942
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 423,138 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 — 27,503 ratings — published 1997
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,037 ratings — published 1845
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,268 ratings — published 1933
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 999 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 — 1,046 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 — 1,127 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 — 74,144 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 — 48,028 ratings — published 2017
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 572 ratings — published 2025
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,793 ratings — published 1903
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 11,029 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 4.45 — 2,358 ratings — published 2025
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.58 — 198 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 — 2,354 ratings — published 2024
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,353 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 — 2,761 ratings — published 2024
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,212 ratings — published 2022
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,216 ratings — published 1979
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 2,552 ratings — published 2021
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,568 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 — 22,307 ratings — published 2021
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,089 ratings — published 2021
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,646 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 — 119,871 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 — 1,662 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 — 839 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 — 37,275 ratings — published 2015
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,068 ratings — published 1971
Negroland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 7,981 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 — 2,138 ratings — published 1999
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,996 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,288 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 — 1,543 ratings — published 2015
Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as africana-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 251 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 — 1,914 ratings — published 2014
“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
“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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