Black Studies


Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Souls of Black Folk
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Black Skin, White Masks
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Wretched of the Earth
Assata: An Autobiography
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Invisible Man
Beloved
Women, Race & Class
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBuck by M.K. AsanteThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black biography
242 books — 65 voters
Freeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinAbolition for the People by Colin KaepernickIn the Wake by Christina SharpeBlack, White, and in Color by Hortense SpillersAt the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Black Studies
102 books — 10 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyAnimal Farm by George OrwellThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Radical Thoughts for the 21st Century
208 books — 116 voters

If I am a man, I am a man who always questions, who is driven to ask with a visceral urgency as irresistible and insatiable as an itch in a fold of my brain.
La Marr Jurelle Bruce

Every belief, every word, every phrase, every observation, every proposition, every citation, every punctuation mark is subjected to ruthless doubt and viscious interrogation. The conventions of grammar oblige me to end most of these sentences with periods, but there are ghostly, invisible lines curling and hovering over most of these tiny dots. What I mean is that most of the periods in this book are interrogation marks in disguise. Most of these declarations are really restless questions under ...more
La Marr Jurelle Bruce

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