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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,503 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,217 ratings — published 1965
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,760 ratings — published 2010
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,483 ratings — published 1903
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 132,832 ratings — published 1845
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 573,074 ratings — published 1969
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,768 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,817 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 116,943 ratings — published 1963
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,063 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 437,587 ratings — published 2016
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,788 ratings — published 2020
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 742,317 ratings — published 1982
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,740 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 23,566 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,337 ratings — published 2018
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.70 — 38,539 ratings — published 2021
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.59 — 30,015 ratings — published 1987
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 391,934 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as black-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,178 ratings — published 1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 57,211 ratings — published 1861
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,538 ratings — published 2013
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,026 ratings — published 1976
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,921 ratings — published 2013
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as black-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,603 ratings — published 2016
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 10,862 ratings — published 2021
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,767 ratings — published 1853
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,980,008 ratings — published 2009
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.63 — 7,218 ratings — published 2019
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,559 ratings — published 1981
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,808 ratings — published 2007
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as black-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 380,509 ratings — published 1937
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 262,787 ratings — published 1979
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,171,775 ratings — published 2018
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,020 ratings — published 1933
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,062 ratings — published 2008
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 994,359 ratings — published 2017
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as black-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,596 ratings — published 1852
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 421,459 ratings — published 2024
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 786,715 ratings — published 2016
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.62 — 256,937 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,683 ratings — published 2019
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,233 ratings — published 1935
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,857 ratings — published 2001
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,719 ratings — published 1981
A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
by (shelved 51 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,624 ratings — published 2020
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,362 ratings — published 1961
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 6,884 ratings — published 2023
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 292,144 ratings — published 1970
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as black-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,190 ratings — published 2021
“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.”
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