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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,547 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 289,965 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 30,985 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,949 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,737 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 399,654 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,649 ratings — published 1937
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 410,317 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.13 — 298,294 ratings — published 1970
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,069 ratings — published 1981
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 116,139 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,258 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.98 — 487,752 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 268,812 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,766 ratings — published 1903
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 850,060 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 258,577 ratings — published 1993
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 749,041 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 — 116,836 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 249,922 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,785 ratings — published 1963
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,691 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 — 171,716 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 — 578,346 ratings — published 1969
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,168 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 148,183 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,004,963 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 442,600 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 — 38,328 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 141,855 ratings — published 2003
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,296 ratings — published 1935
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 62,837 ratings — published 2020
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,280 ratings — published 2005
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,730 ratings — published 1982
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,547 ratings — published 1983
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.74 — 410,580 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,001 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,747 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,517 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,085 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 — 34,598 ratings — published 1975
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 848 ratings — published 1997
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 263,016 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 574,082 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,519 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,616 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 384,490 ratings — published 2018
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,189 ratings — published 2016
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,422 ratings — published 1940
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,424 ratings — published 2019
“Many black intellectuals spoke about the experience of racism mainly, and sometimes exclusively, from a black male perspective, highlighting the various ways their humanity had been degraded and denied. While this discussion was something I cared about deeply, it was rarely balanced with one about all the unique ways in which black women have suffered. Even the scholars who spoke about race without focusing so much on the particular experience of black men still failed to fully capture and dissect the compounded challenges black women faced as they dealt with racism and sexism. The result of discussions of race being unfairly tilted toward the male point of view is that the experiences of black women have taken a backseat to those of black men, although they've suffered in ways that black men haven't. Racism and sexism were stacked against them. And too often they've borne the brunt of the very masculinity that has been historically debased in black men when black men asserted their power over the only people they could - black women...The hard truth is that black men have contributed to these struggles both subtly and overtly...we contribute to the degradation of black women by glorifying the kind of common rap that reduces them to bitches, hoes, and body parts.”
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“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
