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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,175 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,710 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,233 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,430 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,496 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,385 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,487 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 — 121,647 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,471 ratings — published 1981
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,866 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,578 ratings — published 2013
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,243 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 399,080 ratings — published 1937
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,186 ratings — published 1993
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,190 ratings — published 1981
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,831 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,692 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,116 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,498 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 — 120,149 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,617 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,025 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,687 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 — 596,194 ratings — published 1969
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,432 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 — 174,184 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,865 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 — 2,359 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 — 39,258 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,081 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,668 ratings — published 1961
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,913 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,872 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 — 48,271 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 398,508 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,846 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,831 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,688 ratings — published 1958
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,228 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,578 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,291 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 — 34,921 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 591,646 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 272,513 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,965 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,979 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,639 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 323,207 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 292,658 ratings — published 1956
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,150 ratings — published 1971
“Let my toes teach the shore
how to feel a tranquil life
through the wetness of sands
Let my heart latch the door
of blackness, as all my pain
now blue sky understands”
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how to feel a tranquil life
through the wetness of sands
Let my heart latch the door
of blackness, as all my pain
now blue sky understands”
―
“I wasn’t allowed to be and stay what I was,” says Paul D. So, what is the being of blackness? Ultimately, (anti)blackness appears to be a matrix: a mold, a womb, a binding substance, a network of intersections, functioning as an encoder or decoder. It is an essential enabling condition for something of, but distinguishable from, its source—and therefore, it performs a kind of natality, performing a generative function rather than serving as an identity. If (anti)blackness is a matrix, then the normative conception of “the human” and the entire set of arrangements Sweet Home allegorizes have their source in abject blackness. In the process of distinguishing itself from blackness, normative humanity nevertheless bears the shadowy traces of blackness’s abject generativity. As “the defined” rather than the “definers,” the enslaved’s abjection places blackness under the sign of the feminine, the object, matter, and the animal regardless of sex.”
― Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
― Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
