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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,885 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,463 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,709 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,077 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,028 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,183 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 — 120,175 ratings — published 2010
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,165 ratings — published 1970
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,856 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,206 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,321 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,646 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 420,941 ratings — published 2013
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,899 ratings — published 1981
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,243 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 873,978 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 283,084 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,768 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 764,930 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 — 119,334 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 255,103 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,712 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,727 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 — 591,833 ratings — published 1969
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 — 173,619 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,870 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 — 2,337 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 — 38,997 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,933 ratings — published 2003
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,387 ratings — published 1935
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,193 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,459 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 — 47,598 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 394,147 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,977 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,533 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,924 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,969 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,124 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,569 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,230 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 — 34,818 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.42 — 566,995 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 270,284 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,687 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,836 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,617 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 318,183 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 277,143 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 4.46 — 2,140 ratings — published 1971
“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
“As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my eyes if I think about it too long.”
― Slay
― Slay
