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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Between the World and Me
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Invisible Man
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Fire Next Time
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Americanah
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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Black Boy
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Native Son
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The Color Purple
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Black Like Me
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Assata: An Autobiography
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Women, Race & Class
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Race Matters
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Buck: A Memoir
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
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4.05 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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4.34 avg rating — 23,993 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The Ways of White Folks
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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And Still I Rise
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Classic Slave Narratives-paperback
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4.33 avg rating — 3,211 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
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4.49 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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4.11 avg rating — 36,013 ratings
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Works of Booker T. Washington. The Future of the American Negro, The Negro Problem, Up from Slavery: an Autobiography, Heroes in Black Skins, Addresses ... of Carl Schurz, Atlanta Compromise
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3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
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3.90 avg rating — 312 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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4.47 avg rating — 3,652 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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4.13 avg rating — 11,619 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
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Jubilee
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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4.36 avg rating — 2,891 ratings
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Song of Solomon
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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John Brown
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Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965
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Black Prophetic Fire
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Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
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Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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The Black Panthers Speak
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Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series)
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
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Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
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