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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,964 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,786 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,047 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,616 ratings — published 1952
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,635 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,507 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,479 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,848 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,238 ratings — published 1970
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,545 ratings — published 1981
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,152 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,048 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,305 ratings — published 1903
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,998 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,832 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,450 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 273,192 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,293 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,716 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 — 118,399 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,947 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,284 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,862 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,626 ratings — published 1969
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,257 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,957 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,736 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,126 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,622 ratings — published 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,714 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,460 ratings — published 2003
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,590 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,791 ratings — published 2017
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,316 ratings — published 2005
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,201 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,719 ratings — published 1958
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,349 ratings — published 1935
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,128 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,964 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,547 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,164 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 — 34,745 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.42 — 536,324 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,505 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,641 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,147 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 264,699 ratings — published 1956
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,594 ratings — published 1983
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,284 ratings — published 1940
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 873 ratings — published 1997
“Blackness doesn’t make you less, but it does frame your life. When you walk into a room, so does race. Frankly, it shows up before you do. It colors every conversation, shapes how you’re viewed, determines whether you’re even heard. From the day you get here, Blackness hangs over everything, from comments about your hair (‘Can I touch it?’) to mentions that certain Black people are ‘smart’ (’cause it’s assumed we’re idiots). The message comes through loud and clear: You’re not one of us, you’re less.”
― Coming Home
― Coming Home
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
