Afro


Americanah
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Color Purple
Purple Hibiscus
Women, Race & Class
Beloved
Kindred
The Hate U Give
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Giovanni’s Room
Black Skin, White Masks
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Bluest Eye
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly LemmingThe Problem with Dating by Brittainy C. CherryA Legend in the Baking by Jamie WesleyDigging Up Love by Chandra BlumbergSweethand by N.G. Peltier
Cartoon Afro Girls On Romance Covers
185 books — 17 voters
The Girl Who Married a Skull by Kel McDonaldDjeliya by Juni BaWhen You Were Everything by Ashley WoodfolkJustin by L.J. AlongeBalancing Act by Paula Chase
Spotlight: Must Read Black YA/MG
70 books — 5 voters

The Icarus Girl by Helen OyeyemiGirl by Jamaica KincaidThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBlack Panther & The Crew by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Afro hair
24 books — 7 voters

When and where there is repression, what a woman does when she gets dressed in the morning may be considered political. Wearing or not wearing a veil, disobeying laws that prohibit transgender dressing, or wearing a large Afro in an institution that seeks to diminish the formation of racial alliances are all actions that can serve as challenges to domination
Maxine Leeds Craig, Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An afro is a poor man’s haircut.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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