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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,669 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,269 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,015 ratings — published 1903
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,666 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 — 120,577 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,502 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,038 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,539 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,764 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 — 122,531 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 — 5,583 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,994 ratings — published 1952
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,665 ratings — published 1983
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,348 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,855 ratings — published 1981
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,068 ratings — published 2019
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,084 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 — 39,374 ratings — published 2016
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,305 ratings — published 2016
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,741 ratings — published 1973
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,359 ratings — published 1981
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,314 ratings — published 1933
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,602 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 — 48,710 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 — 37,721 ratings — published 2015
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,918 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 — 598,861 ratings — published 1969
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,014 ratings — published 1938
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,075 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 — 900 ratings — published 1997
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,213 ratings — published
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 — 5,741 ratings — published 2013
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 — 5,300 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,640 ratings — published 2010
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,234 ratings — published 2002
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,294 ratings — published 1974
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,402 ratings — published 1997
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 88,161 ratings — published 1953
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,981 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,798 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 — 2,767 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,866 ratings — published 1982
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,450 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 — 1,687 ratings — published 2003
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,305 ratings — published 1971
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,887 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,847 ratings — published 1968
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,523 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 — 102,307 ratings — published 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,357 ratings — published 2017
“I owe endless gratitude to my ancestors whose names I'll never know—and to my as-yet-unconceived children whose names I don't yet know: I already love you, though I've never met you; I already miss you, though I haven't left you; I don't even know you, but I can't forget you.”
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“Every belief, every word, every phrase, every observation, every proposition, every citation, every punctuation mark is subjected to ruthless doubt and viscious interrogation. The conventions of grammar oblige me to end most of these sentences with periods, but there are ghostly, invisible lines curling and hovering over most of these tiny dots. What I mean is that most of the periods in this book are interrogation marks in disguise. Most of these declarations are really restless questions underneath.”
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