The Man Who Lived Underground
By: Richard Wright
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
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1. Animal (Animal, #1)
By: K'wan
4.54
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
K’wan, one of this generation’s most talented and gritty writers, delivers his bloodiest story yet.… read more
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- african american
- fiction
- audiobook
2. Soul on Ice
By: Eldridge Cleaver
3.97
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way the United States loo… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle her…"-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
"The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and s…"-Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
3. The Spook Who Sat by the Door
By: Sam Greenlee
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
This book is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 60s and a … read more
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- classics
- race
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- historical fiction
- african american
4. The Omen (Animal #2)
By: K'wan
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
After the incredible success of Animal, K'wan is back with the second, bloody installment in the ne… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
5. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- african american
6. Yonnondio: From the Thirties
By: Tillie Olsen , Linda Ray Pratt
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Yonnondiofollows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depr… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- historical fiction
7. The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. (Locas, #2)
By: Jaime Hernández
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
The 25th anniversary Love and Rocketscelebration continues with this, the second of three volumes c… read more
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- fiction
8. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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10. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
By: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
4.11
Format: 14 pages,
This edition includes a chapter examining the Obama mysterythe election of a black President even t… read more
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11. Leaf Storm and Other Stories
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
Contains the Novella Leaf Storm: 'SUDDENLY, AS IF A WHIRLWIND HAD SET DOWN ROOTS IN THE CENTRE OF T… read more
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13. Fruit Punch
By: Kendra Allen
3.93
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
An arresting and one-of-a-kind memoir about the alternately exultant and harrowing trip growing up … read more
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- african american
- audiobook
14. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- african american
- audiobook
15. Nosotros, los Caserta
By: Aurora Venturini
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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17. The Man Who Lived Underground
By: Richard Wright
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,… read more
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- literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
- african american
- audiobook
"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"Yes, the only being who could possibly gaze down upon such a hopeless spectacle and encompass its meaninglessness would have to be a god. That was it! Maybe men had invented gods to feel what they co…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint patt…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
18. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
By: Shane McCrae
3.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more
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- race
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- audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
19. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
By: Jarvis R. Givens
4.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose fa… read more
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20. Purlie Victorious
By: Ossie Davis
4.18
Format: 96 pages, None
Davis, Ossie. Purlie Victorious. A Comedy in Three Acts. New York, Samuel French, Inc., 1961. 18,2 … read more
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