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Black Studies Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,417 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,989 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,711 ratings — published 1903
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,538 ratings — published 2010
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,171 ratings — published 1952
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 127,388 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,140 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,822 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,147 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 — 120,498 ratings — published 2010
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,573 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,378 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,910 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,989 ratings — published 1981
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,630 ratings — published 1983
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,743 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 — 39,045 ratings — published 2016
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,525 ratings — published 1973
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,568 ratings — published 2019
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,961 ratings — published 1981
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,446 ratings — published 1997
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,280 ratings — published 2016
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,247 ratings — published 1933
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 — 47,768 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 — 37,100 ratings — published 2015
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,404 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 — 592,861 ratings — published 1969
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 396,217 ratings — published 1937
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 — 5,692 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 — 7,822 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 4.59 — 886 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 — 5,201 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,716 ratings — published 2018
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,220 ratings — published 2002
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,151 ratings — published 1974
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,911 ratings — published 2010
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,498 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 766,244 ratings — published 1982
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,343 ratings — published 1997
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,914 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,811 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,837 ratings — published 1953
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,500 ratings — published 1992
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,406 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,805 ratings — published 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,225 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 454,593 ratings — published 2016
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,723 ratings — published 2007
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,796 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,414 ratings — published 1853
“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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