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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,048 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,551 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,852 ratings — published 1903
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,400 ratings — published 1952
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,101 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 44 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,970 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,621 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,204 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,474 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 — 121,555 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 — 5,578 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,193 ratings — published 1952
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,645 ratings — published 1983
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,803 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,437 ratings — published 1981
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,296 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 — 39,239 ratings — published 2016
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,623 ratings — published 1973
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,177 ratings — published 1981
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,287 ratings — published 1933
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,850 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,539 ratings — published 1997
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,285 ratings — published 2016
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 — 48,228 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,425 ratings — published 2015
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,693 ratings — published 1955
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,883 ratings — published 1969
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,863 ratings — published 1937
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,958 ratings — published 2018
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 — 5,710 ratings — published 2013
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,922 ratings — published 1938
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 891 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 — 5,254 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,212 ratings — published 2010
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,226 ratings — published 2002
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,223 ratings — published 1974
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,378 ratings — published 1997
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,717 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,649 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,173 ratings — published 1982
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,689 ratings — published 2003
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,149 ratings — published 1971
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,453 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,828 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,982 ratings — published 1953
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,513 ratings — published 1992
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,055 ratings — published 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,284 ratings — published 2017
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 926 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,397 ratings — published 2016
“No group is worth joining if everybody is welcome.”
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“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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