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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,840 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,475 ratings — published 1965
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,925 ratings — published 1952
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,508 ratings — published 1987
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,847 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,544 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 — 119,637 ratings — published 2010
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,119 ratings — published 1970
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,608 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 501,503 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,860 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,514 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,517 ratings — published 2013
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,786 ratings — published 1981
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,946 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.12 — 871,101 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.19 — 279,548 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,915 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,732 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 — 119,012 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,315 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,563 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 590,048 ratings — published 1969
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,369 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,469 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,246 ratings — published 2016
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,330 ratings — published 2005
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,904 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,102 ratings — published 2003
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,886 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,296 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,299 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 392,426 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,390 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,431 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,419 ratings — published 1958
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,373 ratings — published 1935
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 33,661 ratings — published 1961
An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11,067 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 5,560 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,206 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 — 34,798 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.42 — 556,894 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,353 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,292 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,749 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,606 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 316,515 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 272,663 ratings — published 1956
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,616 ratings — published 1983
“This entire experience, although seemingly harmless in the grand cosmic scheme of life, was a perfect microcosm of the American dream. The good minority earned his rank by beating up the bad minority--a tale as old as the founding of this country. You try to gain as much proximity to whiteness and as much distance as you can from Blackness or the villain of the day, in order to become accepted by the mainstream.”
― Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
― Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“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
