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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,116 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 302,145 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,153 ratings — published 1903
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,921 ratings — published 1952
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,033 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 132,096 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,478 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,809 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 43,005 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 — 123,528 ratings — published 2010
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,593 ratings — published 1990
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,236 ratings — published 1981
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,675 ratings — published 1983
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,497 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,783 ratings — published 1952
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,428 ratings — published 1845
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,512 ratings — published 2016
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,314 ratings — published 2016
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,836 ratings — published 1973
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,357 ratings — published 1933
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,316 ratings — published 2019
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,175 ratings — published 1987
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,960 ratings — published 2015
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,653 ratings — published 1997
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,167 ratings — published 2017
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,665 ratings — published 1969
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,451 ratings — published
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,773 ratings — published 2013
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,093 ratings — published 1938
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,094 ratings — published 1955
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,476 ratings — published 1937
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 915 ratings — published 1997
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,371 ratings — published 2019
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,396 ratings — published 1974
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,712 ratings — published 2010
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,238 ratings — published 2002
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,131 ratings — published 1953
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 26,193 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,060 ratings — published 2018
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,795 ratings — published 2007
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,486 ratings — published 1935
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,693 ratings — published 2003
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,427 ratings — published 1997
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,444 ratings — published 1971
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,871 ratings — published 1968
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,531 ratings — published 1992
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,872 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,522 ratings — published 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,412 ratings — published 2017
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 935 ratings — published 2013
“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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“a woman's circumstances can limit her choices, so simply telling women to “make better choices” misses the bigger picture.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
