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Black Feminism Books
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,862 ratings — published 1984
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,146 ratings — published 1981
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,521 ratings — published 1990
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,432 ratings — published 1981
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,695 ratings — published 2017
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,080 ratings — published 2020
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,037 ratings — published 1984
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,907 ratings — published 2018
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,784 ratings — published 1981
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,110 ratings — published 1999
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,195 ratings — published 1987
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,182 ratings — published 2000
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,824 ratings — published 1982
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.47 — 950 ratings — published 1995
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,880 ratings — published 2014
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,332 ratings — published 1983
The Black Woman: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.48 — 403 ratings — published 1970
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,785 ratings — published 1986
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,976 ratings — published 2019
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,739 ratings — published 1998
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,549 ratings — published 2015
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by (shelved 19 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.24 — 327 ratings — published 2018
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.29 — 34,637 ratings — published 1975
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,230 ratings — published 1997
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)
by (shelved 19 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.08 — 707 ratings — published 1978
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.56 — 8,587 ratings — published 2018
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,577 ratings — published 1993
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,393 ratings — published 2011
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,627 ratings — published 1989
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,368 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,084 ratings — published 1982
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,121 ratings — published 1999
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.35 — 924 ratings — published 1983
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.39 — 329,887 ratings — published 2012
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,397 ratings — published 2019
Women, Culture, and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,675 ratings — published 1989
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,851 ratings — published 1994
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.35 — 29,887 ratings — published 2003
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,785 ratings — published 1974
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,081 ratings — published 1984
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy Series)
by (shelved 13 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,555 ratings — published 2020
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,608 ratings — published 1992
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.31 — 270,366 ratings — published 1979
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.05 — 123,152 ratings — published 1973
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,599 ratings — published 2019
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,465 ratings — published 2002
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
by (shelved 12 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,744 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.13 — 300,015 ratings — published 1970
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.72 — 471 ratings — published 1977
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as black-feminism)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,466 ratings — published 1992
“As hip hop has made clear—and black religion, too, for that matterwhen we conceive of the horrors we confront, they have a masculine tint; we measure the terrors we face by calculating their harm to our men and boys. Thus the role of our artists has often been limited to validating the experiences, expressions, and desires of boys and men. When we name those plagued by police violence, we cite the names of the boys and men but not the names of the girls and women. We take special note of how black boys are unfairly kicked out of school while ignoring that our girls are right next to them in the line of expulsion. We empathize with black men who end up in jail because of a joint they smoked while overlooking the defense against domestic abuse that lands just as many women in jail. We offer authority and celebration to men at church to compensate for how the white world overlooks their talents unless they carry a ball or a tune. We thank black fathers for lovingly parenting their children, and many more of them do so than is recognized in the broader world, which is one reason for our gratitude. But we are relatively thankless for the near superhuman efforts of our mothers to nurture and protect us.”
― What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
― What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
“On the other hand, white women face the pitfall of being seduced into joining the oppressor under the pretense of sharing power. This possibility does not exist in the same way for women of Color. The tokenism that is sometimes extended to us is not an invitation to join power; our racial "otherness" is a visible reality that makes that quite clear. For white women there is a wider range of pretended choices and rewards for identifying with patriarchal power and its tools.
Today, with the defeat of ERA, the tightening economy, and increased conservatism, it is easier once again for white women to believe the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace, at least until a man needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along. And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
But Black women and our children know the fabric of our lives is stitched with violence and
with hatred, that there is no rest. We do not deal with it only on the picket lines, or in dark midnight alleys, or in the places where we dare to verbalize our resistance. For us, increasingly, violence weaves through the daily tissues of our living — in the supermarket, in the classroom, in the elevator, in the clinic and the schoolyard, from the plumber, the baker, the saleswoman, the bus driver, the bank teller, the waitress who does not serve us.”
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Today, with the defeat of ERA, the tightening economy, and increased conservatism, it is easier once again for white women to believe the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace, at least until a man needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along. And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
But Black women and our children know the fabric of our lives is stitched with violence and
with hatred, that there is no rest. We do not deal with it only on the picket lines, or in dark midnight alleys, or in the places where we dare to verbalize our resistance. For us, increasingly, violence weaves through the daily tissues of our living — in the supermarket, in the classroom, in the elevator, in the clinic and the schoolyard, from the plumber, the baker, the saleswoman, the bus driver, the bank teller, the waitress who does not serve us.”
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