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Black Studies Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,672 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,209 ratings — published 1965
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,609 ratings — published 2010
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,041 ratings — published 1903
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 45 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 122,171 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,301 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,639 ratings — published 1961
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,541 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,055 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 — 117,425 ratings — published 2010
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,452 ratings — published 1952
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,576 ratings — published 1983
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,530 ratings — published 1990
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,516 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,557 ratings — published 1987
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,717 ratings — published 1981
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 135,410 ratings — published 1845
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,599 ratings — published 2019
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,190 ratings — published 1973
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,289 ratings — published 1981
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,262 ratings — published 2017
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,195 ratings — published 1997
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,120 ratings — published 1933
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,211 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,272 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 — 35,918 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 — 7,562 ratings — published 1938
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,443 ratings — published 1955
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,869 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 — 5,009 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 4.45 — 5,613 ratings — published 2013
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,841 ratings — published 1974
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,909 ratings — published 2018
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 860 ratings — published 1997
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,898 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 807,062 ratings — published 2010
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 754,422 ratings — published 1982
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,473 ratings — published 1971
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,192 ratings — published 2002
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,846 ratings — published 1940
Soul on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,744 ratings — published 1968
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 82,498 ratings — published 1953
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,467 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,936 ratings — published 2017
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 899 ratings — published 2013
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 446,580 ratings — published 2016
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,634 ratings — published 2007
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,033 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,255 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 — 1,681 ratings — published 2003
“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
