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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,818 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,484 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,569 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,681 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,787 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,001 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,382 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 — 122,603 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,872 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,745 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,287 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,029 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,108 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 299,562 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,645 ratings — published 1963
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,375 ratings — published 1981
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,201 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,048 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,365 ratings — published 2020
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,088 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,619 ratings — published 2010
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,230 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,738 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 — 599,191 ratings — published 1969
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,452 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 — 174,557 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,415 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 — 2,365 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 — 39,388 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,561 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,093 ratings — published 1961
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,317 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,090 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 — 48,754 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 401,878 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,847 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,993 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,047 ratings — published 1958
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,302 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,582 ratings — published 1990
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,930 ratings — published 1940
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,316 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 — 34,979 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 605,627 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,039 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,867 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,080 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,653 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 327,466 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,244 ratings — published
“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.”
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“I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.”
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