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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 378,522 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 302,420 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,831 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,936 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 43,017 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,938 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 331,308 ratings — published 1970
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,661 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,266 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 520,641 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 403,682 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,167 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,221 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 304,175 ratings — published 1993
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,885 ratings — published 1979
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 132,226 ratings — published 1963
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,513 ratings — published 1981
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 889,774 ratings — published 2020
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 261,930 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 777,588 ratings — published 1982
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,063 ratings — published 2010
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,585 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 463,713 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,938 ratings — published 1969
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,489 ratings — published 1935
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,894 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,003 ratings — published 2017
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,380 ratings — published 2005
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,522 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,898 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,513 ratings — published 1961
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,683 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,341 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,218 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 405,671 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,049,635 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,181 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,634 ratings — published 1958
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,401 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,593 ratings — published 1990
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,316 ratings — published 1940
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,363 ratings — published 1933
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.29 — 35,055 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 617,277 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 275,317 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 591,505 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,156 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,669 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 330,963 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,479 ratings — published
“This entire experience, although seemingly harmless in the grand cosmic scheme of life, was a perfect microcosm of the American dream. The good minority earned his rank by beating up the bad minority--a tale as old as the founding of this country. You try to gain as much proximity to whiteness and as much distance as you can from Blackness or the villain of the day, in order to become accepted by the mainstream.”
― Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
― Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“I was also aware of the fact that in the black community, respectability politics was often seen as being at odds with what it meant to be "authentically black." To me, there was not such thing as being authentically black. OF course, being seen as "authentically white" wasn't something my white peers had to concern themselves with.”
― Uncensored
― Uncensored
