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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,818 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,484 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,569 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,681 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,787 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,001 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,390 ratings — published 1970
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,603 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,872 ratings — published 1981
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,746 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,287 ratings — published 1937
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,029 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,108 ratings — published 2013
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 299,563 ratings — published 1993
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,646 ratings — published 1963
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,375 ratings — published 1981
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,203 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,051 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,372 ratings — published 2020
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,090 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,619 ratings — published 2010
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,231 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,740 ratings — published 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.30 — 599,192 ratings — published 1969
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.52 — 3,452 ratings — published 1935
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 — 174,557 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,416 ratings — published 2017
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,365 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 — 39,389 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,561 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,093 ratings — published 1961
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,317 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,090 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 4.43 — 48,754 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 401,878 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,852 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,993 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 427,047 ratings — published 1958
An Autobiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11,302 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,582 ratings — published 1990
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,931 ratings — published 1940
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,316 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 — 34,979 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 605,639 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 274,039 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,868 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,080 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,653 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 327,467 ratings — published 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,244 ratings — published
“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”
― Nervous Conditions
― Nervous Conditions
“To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write
a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)
if i cud ever write a
poem as beautiful as u
little 2/yr/old/brotha,
I wud laugh, jump, leap
up and touch the stars
cuz u be the poem i try for
each time i pick up a pen and paper.
u. and Morani and Mungu
be our blue/blk/stars that
will shine on our lives and
makes us finally BE.
if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful
as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha,
poetry wud go out of bizness.”
― It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs
a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)
if i cud ever write a
poem as beautiful as u
little 2/yr/old/brotha,
I wud laugh, jump, leap
up and touch the stars
cuz u be the poem i try for
each time i pick up a pen and paper.
u. and Morani and Mungu
be our blue/blk/stars that
will shine on our lives and
makes us finally BE.
if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful
as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha,
poetry wud go out of bizness.”
― It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs
