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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,968 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,789 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,049 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,617 ratings — published 1952
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,647 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,509 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,480 ratings — published 1984
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 416,855 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,246 ratings — published 1970
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,545 ratings — published 1981
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,152 ratings — published 1981
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 391,053 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,305 ratings — published 1903
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.98 — 497,007 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,836 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,467 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 273,197 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,294 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 758,719 ratings — published 1982
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,399 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,950 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,285 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,862 ratings — published 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,632 ratings — published 1969
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,258 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,957 ratings — published 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,736 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,141 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 449,630 ratings — published 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,714 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 145,462 ratings — published 2003
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,590 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,791 ratings — published 2017
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,316 ratings — published 2005
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,201 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,723 ratings — published 1958
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,349 ratings — published 1935
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,130 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 10,964 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,547 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,164 ratings — published 1933
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.29 — 34,745 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.42 — 536,362 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 267,509 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 580,647 ratings — published 2019
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,153 ratings — published 2018
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 264,706 ratings — published 1956
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,594 ratings — published 1983
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,284 ratings — published 1940
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 873 ratings — published 1997
“If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I’m a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.”
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“A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. We met one day out in the crowd in front of Notre Dame. We walked to the Latin Quarter. We walked to a wine shop. Outside the wine shop there was seating. We sat and drank a bottle of red. We were served heaping piles of meats, bread, and cheese. Was this dinner? Did people do this? I had not even known how to imagine it. And more, was this all some elaborate ritual to get an angle on me? My friend paid. I thanked him. But when we left I made sure
he walked out first. He wanted to show me one of those old buildings that seem to be around every corner in that city. And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of…what, exactly? But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bon soirée, and walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”
― Between the World and Me
he walked out first. He wanted to show me one of those old buildings that seem to be around every corner in that city. And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of…what, exactly? But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bon soirée, and walked off into the wide open night. And watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”
― Between the World and Me
