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The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,097 ratings — published 1903
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,806 ratings — published 1845
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,637 ratings — published 1997
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.04 — 251,060 ratings — published 2021
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,125 ratings — published 2019
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,290 ratings — published 1970
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,107,903 ratings — published 2009
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,577 ratings — published 1969
The Red Record (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 588 ratings — published 1895
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.04 — 175 ratings — published 2000
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.90 — 958 ratings — published 2004
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,077 ratings — published 1981
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,419 ratings — published 1997
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 844 ratings — published 2010
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.85 — 969 ratings — published 2011
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 99 ratings — published 2007
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.76 — 534 ratings — published 2009
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America (Alternative Criminology, 16)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 131 ratings — published 2008
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,760 ratings — published 1999
Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 88 ratings — published 2006
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,132 ratings — published 2009
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.88 — 245 ratings — published 1992
The Declining Significance of Race : Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 3.43 — 201 ratings — published 1978
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as black-issues)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,897 ratings — published 1861
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,982 ratings — published 2021
The Calamity Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.61 — 486,145 ratings — published 2026
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.85 — 192 ratings — published 2005
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.96 — 319 ratings — published 2026
The Manual for Good Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,331 ratings — published 2025
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.97 — 135 ratings — published 2026
Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,074 ratings — published 2002
Native Guard: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,036 ratings — published 2006
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,088 ratings — published 1994
Everyday Use (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,261 ratings — published 1973
March: Book Three (March, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.63 — 22,174 ratings — published 2016
The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.75 — 218 ratings — published 2025
A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.56 — 36 ratings — published
The Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,432 ratings — published 2021
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 31 ratings — published
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.41 — 611,433 ratings — published 2024
The Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,748 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,440 ratings — published 1952
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,250 ratings — published 2016
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,493 ratings — published 2020
The Truth About Grace (A Sequel to Pecan Man)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,879 ratings — published 2018
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,813 ratings — published 1952
Nell Plants a Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.31 — 938 ratings — published 2023
Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published 2015
The Pecan Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,536 ratings — published 2012
The United States of Opioids: A Prescription For Liberating A Nation In Pain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as black-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 39 ratings — published