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Bridging The Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones

by Stelamaris Coser

2 members

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Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow: 1864-1896 (Drama of American History)

by Christopher Collier

31 members

½ 3.6

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3

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System

by Jarrett Adams

30 members

Member: bluewind1

4

Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers

by Stephen Shames

123 members

3 reviews

4.2

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5

The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II

by Denise George

37 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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6

William Still and the Underground Railroad (Townsend Library Edition)

by Kathleen Stevens

43 members

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7

Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

by Judge Jed S. Rakoff

36 members

4 reviews

4.2

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8

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

by David Zucchino

384 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

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9

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

by John Edgar Wideman

126 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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10

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

by Phoebe Robinson

732 members

33 reviews

3.8

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11

Your House Will Pay

415 members

22 reviews

4.2

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12

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism

by Amber Ruffin

457 members

38 reviews

4.2

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13

West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story?

by Suzanne Model

15 members

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14

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed

1,313 members

32 reviews

3.9

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15

The Kindest Lie

by Nancy Johnson

500 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

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16

The Living Is Easy

by Dorothy West

232 members

5 reviews

3.9

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17

The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

102 members

2 reviews

3.8

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18

The Other Madisons: The Lost History Of A President's Black Family

by Bettye Kearse

115 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

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19

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

121 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

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20

by Robert Jones Jr.

893 members

28 reviews

4.1

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21

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

by Linda Gordon

229 members

3 reviews

4.1

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22

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

74 members

1 review

½ 3.7

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23

The Sweetness of Water

by Nathan Harris

926 members

32 reviews

4.1

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24

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

6,053 members

243 reviews

4.1

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25

The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans and How We Can Fix It

by Dorothy A. Brown

132 members

3 reviews

4

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26

They Come in All Colors: A Novel

by Malcolm Hansen

37 members

4

Member: bluewind1

27

The Yellow House: A Memoir

by Sarah M. Broom

1,102 members

41 reviews

3.9

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by Sadeqa Johnson

665 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

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29

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

166 members

7 reviews

4.2

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30

Through Darkness to Light

by Jeanine Michna-Bales

19 members

½ 4.5

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by Hanya Yanagihara

1,036 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

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32

Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter

57 members

5

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390 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

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34

Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

by Robin Coste Lewis

231 members

10 reviews

4.2

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35

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America

by Peniel E. Joseph

236 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

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36

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

by Mariame Kaba

452 members

7 reviews

4.1

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37

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Rebecca Hall

319 members

19 reviews

4.2

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38

A Black Women's History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry

487 members

8 reviews

3.9

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39

Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

44 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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40

A Kind of Freedom

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

304 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

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41

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy

113 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

42

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

by Terrance Hayes

314 members

7 reviews

4.1

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43

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920

by Willard B. Gatewood

53 members

1 review

5

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44

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

by David L. Chappell

108 members

1 review

2.9

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45

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

by Harriet A. Washington

143 members

3 reviews

3.9

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46

Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero

by Cate Lineberry

110 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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47

Black Food: Stories, Art, and More than 75 Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook]

by Bryant Terry

145 members

2 reviews

4.8

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48

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

by Carla L. Peterson

65 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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49

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

by Emily Bernard

173 members

4 reviews

4

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50

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

by Cedric J. Robinson

415 members

1 review

½ 4.7

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51

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

by Patrick Phillips

396 members

13 reviews

½ 4.4

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by Adam Thompson

30 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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by Daphne Palasi Andreades

172 members

6 reviews

4.2

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54

Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave

by Leonard Todd

82 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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55

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

by Diane McWhorter

514 members

5 reviews

4.2

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56

Certain People: America's Black Elite

by Stephen Birmingham

36 members

4

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57

Chester B. Himes: A Biography

by Lawrence P. Jackson

46 members

1 review

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58

Chicken Soup for the Soul: I'm Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope

6 members

Member: bluewind1

59

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,128 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

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60

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

by Stephanie M. H. Camp

132 members

½ 3.3

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61

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir

by Daniel R. Day

97 members

1 review

4.2

Member: bluewind1

62

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

by Leila Taylor

56 members

2 reviews

4.2

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63

Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy

by Connor Towne O'Neill

82 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

64

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

by Jonathan M. Metzl

469 members

13 reviews

3.9

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65

Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still

by Willene Hendrick

27 members

1 review

2.8

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66

Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

by Caseen Gaines

52 members

1 review

½ 3.6

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67

George Washington Williams: A Biography

by John Hope Franklin

53 members

5

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14 members

5

Member: bluewind1

69

Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

69 members

3 reviews

4.1

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70

Black Girl Magic: A Poem

by Mahogany L. Browne

65 members

2 reviews

4.2

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71

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

by Mahogany L. Browne

99 members

½ 4.5

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72

Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

59 members

3 reviews

½ 4.7

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73

by Dany Laferrière

39 members

1 review

2.8

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74

635 members

39 reviews

4

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75

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America

1,320 members

41 reviews

½ 4.6

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76

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

507 members

3 reviews

4.1

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77

Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells

by Michelle Duster

120 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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78

I'm Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream

by Richard Antoine White

31 members

4

Member: bluewind1

79

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

by Stephen L. Carter

247 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

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80

by Vanessa Riley

220 members

12 reviews

3.8

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81

Letter to Jimmy

by Alain Mabanckou

32 members

3.9

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by Kaitlyn Greenidge

712 members

35 reviews

½ 3.5

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83

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

by James Forman Jr.

474 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

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84

Mama Phife Represents: A Memoir

by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

32 members

½ 4.5

Member: bluewind1

85

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

by Dovey Johnson Roundtree

78 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

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86

My Monticello: Fiction

by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

385 members

16 reviews

4.1

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87

The Hounding of David Oluwale

by Kester Aspden

26 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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88

Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class

by Lawrence Otis Graham

368 members

6 reviews

½ 3.3

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89

Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

by Erwin Chemerinsky

50 members

1 review

5

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90

Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel

by David Lester

45 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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91

Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir

by Brian Broome

177 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

92

Reconstruction: A Concise History

by Allen C. Guelzo

80 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

93

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

879 members

26 reviews

4.2

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by P. Djèlí Clark

1,178 members

70 reviews

4.1

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95

Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

by Randall Kennedy

44 members

1 review

3

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Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama

122 members

16 reviews

½ 4.5

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by Gerald Marzorati

12 members

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98

Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II

by Kaia Alderson

250 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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99

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir

by Ashley C. Ford

779 members

24 reviews

3.9

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100

Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

by Pauli Murray

132 members

5 reviews

½ 4.7

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