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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.32 avg rating — 214,808 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.94 avg rating — 272,909 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.23 avg rating — 535,686 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.07 avg rating — 180,746 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.27 avg rating — 36,979 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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4.30 avg rating — 30,540 ratings
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Beloved
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3.88 avg rating — 335,119 ratings
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Native Son
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3.99 avg rating — 91,857 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.82 avg rating — 69,364 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.88 avg rating — 159,797 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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4.04 avg rating — 98,814 ratings
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Kindred
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4.26 avg rating — 107,745 ratings
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Push
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3.85 avg rating — 48,385 ratings
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The Women of Brewster Place
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4.17 avg rating — 18,366 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.50 avg rating — 64,518 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.01 avg rating — 54,554 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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4.11 avg rating — 45,095 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.42 avg rating — 148,967 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.19 avg rating — 99,519 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.07 avg rating — 48,135 ratings
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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3.92 avg rating — 8,675 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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4.29 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Buck: A Memoir
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4.10 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
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4.43 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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4.48 avg rating — 8,574 ratings
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The Ways of White Folks
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4.44 avg rating — 4,214 ratings
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Soul on Ice
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3.98 avg rating — 13,635 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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4.34 avg rating — 16,482 ratings
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
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3.89 avg rating — 27,405 ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
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4.49 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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4.12 avg rating — 8,897 ratings
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Uncle Tom's Children
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4.09 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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4.32 avg rating — 2,022 ratings
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Black No More
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3.99 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
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4.37 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Paradise
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3.82 avg rating — 23,404 ratings
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Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 19,094 ratings
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The Known World
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3.81 avg rating — 37,276 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
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4.51 avg rating — 14,255 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.47 avg rating — 82,800 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 424,421 ratings
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Cane River
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4.07 avg rating — 46,458 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 297,329 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.28 avg rating — 18,997 ratings
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Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
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4.61 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Up from Slavery
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4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings
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Cane
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3.87 avg rating — 8,549 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 16,630 ratings
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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
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3.24 avg rating — 7,053 ratings
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Action Words: Journey of a Journalist
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.38 avg rating — 256,563 ratings
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The Outsider
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4.16 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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The Long Dream
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4.15 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Classic Slave Narratives
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4.32 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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Pym
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3.57 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
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Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition
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4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity
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3.85 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Our Nig
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3.73 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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Betsey Brown
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3.84 avg rating — 608 ratings
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
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4.65 avg rating — 220 ratings
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White Folks Guide to Understanding the Black Community, and Get Out the Vote
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
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4.25 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Murder Along Burley Creek
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Katie's Family: When Love Battles Prejudice
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Chaneysville Incident
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3.97 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans
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4.21 avg rating — 869 ratings
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The Journey Home: A Memoir
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Problem with the Blacks
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
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4.52 avg rating — 6,818 ratings
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Her Right To Flight
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4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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BLACKLISTED IN AMERICA
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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God Send Me My Husband!
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4.40 avg rating — 105 ratings
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice After Losing Her Son
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.62 avg rating — 34,970 ratings
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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4.41 avg rating — 887 ratings
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The Shoebox Kid
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Release: Cycles
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4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Still a Lady: Clarity, Love, and Light during a Global Pandemic
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Shadow and Act
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4.11 avg rating — 544 ratings
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One Good Person: War, Death, Hate, Hope, Love and Catfish
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Another Blue Rose
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.52 avg rating — 23,276 ratings
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My Silent Loud: The Voice Inside Every Little Black Boy
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
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4.31 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 5,609 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
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4.37 avg rating — 14,786 ratings
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Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace
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4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Erasure
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4.19 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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Profiles of Great African-Americans
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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4.13 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
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Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
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3.78 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Tar Baby
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3.94 avg rating — 18,043 ratings
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The Serpent's Gift
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3.80 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
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4.33 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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4.44 avg rating — 8,699 ratings
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Gorilla, My Love
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4.13 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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The African American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks To Colin Powell
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq
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4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
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4.36 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
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