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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,186 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,718 ratings — published 1965
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,235 ratings — published 1987
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,431 ratings — published 1952
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,498 ratings — published 1984
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 425,420 ratings — published 2016
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.14 — 319,520 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 — 121,655 ratings — published 2010
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,472 ratings — published 1981
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,870 ratings — published 1903
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,599 ratings — published 2013
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,286 ratings — published 1987
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 399,099 ratings — published 1937
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 293,221 ratings — published 1993
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,190 ratings — published 1981
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,866 ratings — published 1979
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,734 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.55 — 129,129 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,529 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 — 120,151 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,646 ratings — published 2018
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,028 ratings — published 2014
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,716 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 — 596,223 ratings — published 1969
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.53 — 3,432 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 — 174,183 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,870 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 — 2,359 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 — 39,258 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,099 ratings — published 2003
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,670 ratings — published 1961
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,915 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,875 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 — 48,275 ratings — published 2017
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.93 — 398,536 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,876 ratings — published 2017
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,833 ratings — published 1982
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,708 ratings — published 1958
An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.45 — 11,229 ratings — published 1974
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,578 ratings — published 1990
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,291 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 — 34,921 ratings — published 1975
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.41 — 591,761 ratings — published 2024
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 272,526 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,987 ratings — published 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,979 ratings — published 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,639 ratings — published 2018
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.25 — 323,233 ratings — published 2019
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.34 — 292,757 ratings — published 1956
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blackness)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,150 ratings — published 1971
“We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks,”
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“A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
―
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still...”
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