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Black Studies Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,244 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,817 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,691 ratings — published 1903
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,447 ratings — published 2010
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,135 ratings — published 1952
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 127,173 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,093 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,788 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,109 ratings — published 1984
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,400 ratings — published 2010
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,573 ratings — published 1990
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,278 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,355 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,953 ratings — published 1981
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,626 ratings — published 1983
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,669 ratings — published 1845
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,031 ratings — published 2016
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,506 ratings — published 1973
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,525 ratings — published 2019
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,943 ratings — published 1981
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,438 ratings — published 1997
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,278 ratings — published 2016
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,240 ratings — published 1933
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,701 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,067 ratings — published 2015
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,378 ratings — published 1955
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 592,522 ratings — published 1969
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 395,904 ratings — published 1937
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,688 ratings — published 2013
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,809 ratings — published 1938
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 884 ratings — published 1997
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,193 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,690 ratings — published 2018
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,220 ratings — published 2002
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,144 ratings — published 1974
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,394 ratings — published 2010
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,466 ratings — published 2018
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,783 ratings — published 1982
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,344 ratings — published 1997
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,824 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,808 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 85,703 ratings — published 1953
Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,500 ratings — published 1992
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,380 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,788 ratings — published 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,217 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 454,304 ratings — published 2016
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,716 ratings — published 2007
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,758 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,364 ratings — published 1853
“Every belief, every word, every phrase, every observation, every proposition, every citation, every punctuation mark is subjected to ruthless doubt and viscious interrogation. The conventions of grammar oblige me to end most of these sentences with periods, but there are ghostly, invisible lines curling and hovering over most of these tiny dots. What I mean is that most of the periods in this book are interrogation marks in disguise. Most of these declarations are really restless questions underneath.”
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“What is the black shadow? It's the running inner dialogue we have with ourselves all day long about our fears of being inferior as black people. It is our internalization of the white man's lie that blacks are inferior to whites -- the very lie that was the foundation of our ancestors' enslavement. The black shadow is more than simply internalized racism; it's also our complex feelings of fear and despair about being black, and consequently our longing to be less black.”
― Facing the Black Shadow
― Facing the Black Shadow
