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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The Color Purple
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Beloved
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Song of Solomon
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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Sula
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.44 avg rating — 8,935 ratings
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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4.12 avg rating — 72,165 ratings
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Zami
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4.32 avg rating — 14,642 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
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3.93 avg rating — 51,487 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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4.54 avg rating — 21,259 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.38 avg rating — 70,050 ratings
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An American Marriage
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3.96 avg rating — 281,197 ratings
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Passing
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The Heart of a Woman
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
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4.41 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Quicksand
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Selected Poems
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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A Mercy
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
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3.87 avg rating — 3,656 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
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4.27 avg rating — 7,316 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.55 avg rating — 19,699 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
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4.20 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1995
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4.39 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Jubilee
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The Street
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted
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Maud Martha
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
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Meridian
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
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Blacks
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Waiting to Exhale (Waiting To Exhale #1)
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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A Voice from the South
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The Third Life Of Grange Copeland
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The Red Record
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Gorilla, My Love
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Oreo
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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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Thomas and Beulah
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Native Guard
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question In African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
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Our Nig
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The Flagellants
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The House of Dies Drear (Dies Drear Chronicles, #1)
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Funnyhouse of a Negro
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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Corregidora
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The Salt Eaters
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There Is Confusion
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Blood Dazzler
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
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The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
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Sweat
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Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Moses, Man of the Mountain
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
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Eva's Man
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We a BaddDDD People.
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
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Fish Tales
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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Linden Hills
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Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
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Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women
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Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory
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Ugly Ways
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
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Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
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Topdog/Underdog
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Fledgling
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
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4.51 avg rating — 368 ratings
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African American Music: An Introduction
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Magical Negro
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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4.38 avg rating — 3,333 ratings
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
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4.47 avg rating — 333 ratings
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The Black Christ
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