Blackness


Between the World and Me
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Assata: An Autobiography
Black Skin, White Masks
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Homegoing
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Bluest Eye
Women, Race & Class
The Souls of Black Folk
Beloved
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Americanah
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Kindred
Corrections in Ink by Keri BlakingerOrange Is the New Black by Piper KermanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Women's prison memoirs
71 books — 59 voters
Raising Free People by Akilah S. RichardsUntigering by Iris  ChenGuerrilla Learning by Grace LlewellynRevolutionary Mothering by Alexis Pauline  GumbsThinking In Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Parenting for Liberation
19 books — 4 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
Slavery at Sea by Sowande M. MustakeemDispossessed Lives by Marisa J. FuentesFreedom Papers by Rebecca J. ScottBlack on Both Sides by C. Riley SnortonGood Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown
#BlackWomanhood
22 books — 1 voter

Tsitsi Dangarembga
It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Sonia Sanchez
To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u little 2/yr/old/brotha, I wud laugh, jump, leap up and touch the stars cuz u be the poem i try for each time i pick up a pen and paper. u. and Morani and Mungu be our blue/blk/stars that will shine on our lives and makes us finally BE. if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha, poetry wud go out of bizness.
Sonia Sanchez, It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs

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