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Black Studies Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,663 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,198 ratings — published 1965
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,607 ratings — published 2010
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,040 ratings — published 1903
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 45 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,163 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,301 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,638 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,538 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,052 ratings — published 1984
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,422 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,446 ratings — published 1952
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,576 ratings — published 1983
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,530 ratings — published 1990
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,516 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,540 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,716 ratings — published 1981
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,405 ratings — published 1845
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,597 ratings — published 2019
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,190 ratings — published 1973
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,287 ratings — published 1981
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,257 ratings — published 2017
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,195 ratings — published 1997
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,120 ratings — published 1933
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,211 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,262 ratings — published 1969
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,918 ratings — published 2015
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,562 ratings — published 1938
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,440 ratings — published 1955
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,857 ratings — published 1937
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,008 ratings — published 2019
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,613 ratings — published 2013
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,840 ratings — published 1974
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,907 ratings — published 2018
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 860 ratings — published 1997
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,897 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 807,052 ratings — published 2010
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,403 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,474 ratings — published 1971
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,192 ratings — published 2002
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,845 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,744 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,493 ratings — published 1953
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,465 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,936 ratings — published 2017
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 899 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,563 ratings — published 2016
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,634 ratings — published 2007
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,031 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,254 ratings — published 1853
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,681 ratings — published 2003
“If I am a man, I am a man who always questions, who is driven to ask with a visceral urgency as irresistible and insatiable as an itch in a fold of my brain.”
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“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!”
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