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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 — 370,004 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,825 ratings — published 1965
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,413 ratings — published 2010
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,312 ratings — published 1903
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,624 ratings — published 1952
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 43 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,324 ratings — published 1963
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,146 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,067 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,490 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 — 118,528 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,517 ratings — published 1952
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,547 ratings — published 1990
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,107 ratings — published 1987
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,594 ratings — published 1983
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,160 ratings — published 1981
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,432 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 — 38,716 ratings — published 2016
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,962 ratings — published 2019
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,318 ratings — published 1973
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,550 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 — 27,295 ratings — published 1997
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,166 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 4.44 — 46,799 ratings — published 2017
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,237 ratings — published 2016
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,821 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 — 586,687 ratings — published 1969
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,467 ratings — published 2015
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,657 ratings — published 1938
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,097 ratings — published 1937
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,086 ratings — published 2019
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,640 ratings — published 2013
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 873 ratings — published 1997
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 33,265 ratings — published 2018
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 10,966 ratings — published 1974
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,740 ratings — published 2010
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,200 ratings — published 2002
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,111 ratings — published 2018
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,675 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,811 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,649 ratings — published 1971
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,288 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,771 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,757 ratings — published 1953
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,858 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,037 ratings — published 2017
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 909 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,665 ratings — published 2016
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,290 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,455 ratings — published 1853
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,685 ratings — published 2003
“The notion that Google/ Alphabet has the potential to be a democratizing force is certainly laudable, but the contradictions inherent in its projects must be contextualized in the historical conditions that both create and are created by it.”
― Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
― Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!”
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