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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,618 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,180 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,530 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,298 ratings — published 1952
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,428 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,414 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,045 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,008 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.13 — 302,932 ratings — published 1970
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,287 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,807 ratings — published 1937
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,704 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,473 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,267 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,031 ratings — published 1903
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,503 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 266,247 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,324 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 — 117,595 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 251,523 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,111 ratings — published 1963
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,027 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 — 172,389 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 — 583,207 ratings — published 1969
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,586 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,958 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,015,014 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,505 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 — 38,509 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,838 ratings — published 2003
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 63,522 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,253 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 — 2,300 ratings — published 2005
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,950 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,895 ratings — published 1958
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,318 ratings — published 1935
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 32,630 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 10,837 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,529 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,119 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 — 34,670 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.43 — 506,807 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 265,541 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 577,757 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,549 ratings — published 2018
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 386,350 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 256,277 ratings — published 1956
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,574 ratings — published 1983
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,837 ratings — published 1940
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 860 ratings — published 1997
“A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. We met one day out in the crowd in front of Notre Dame. We walked to the Latin Quarter. We walked to a wine shop. Outside the wine shop there was seating. We sat and drank a bottle of red. We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Was this dinner? Did people do this? I had not even known how to imagine it. And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? My friend paid. I thanked him. But when we left I made sure
he walked out first. He wanted to show me one of those old buildings that seem to be around every corner in that city. And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of…what, exactly? But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bon soirée, and walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”
― Between the World and Me
he walked out first. He wanted to show me one of those old buildings that seem to be around every corner in that city. And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of…what, exactly? But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bon soirée, and walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”
― Between the World and Me
“For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to survive — you can’t be throwing beer bottles at police and telling them to fuck themselves simply for the fun of it.”
― Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
― Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
