You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and a…
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1. Belle and the Beau
By: Beverly Jenkins
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Belle After a grueling escape north, Belle Palmer is free, yet lost and alone. Separated from her … read more
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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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3. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
By: Joyce Carol Oates , David Sedaris , Katherine Mansfield , Alice Munro , Flannery O'Connor , Sarah Vowell , Patricia Highsmith , Charles Baxter , Richard Yates , Jhumpa Lahiri , Dorothy Parker , Jincy Willett , Tobias Wolff , Lorrie Moore , Amy Hempel , Jean Thompson , None , Frank Gannon , Tim Johnston
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a c… read more
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4. Copycat
By: Kimberla Lawson Roby
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author who "writes with high-octane levels of emotion" (USA Toda… read more
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5. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
By: Angela Y. Davis
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
[From the front and back flaps] The trial of Angela Yvonne Davis in connection with the prisoner re… read more
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6. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the Afric… read more
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7. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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8. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
9. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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10. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.62
Format: 590 pages, Hardcover
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more
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11. 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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12. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
13. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
By: Margo Jefferson
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more
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14. Black Hamptons (Urban Renaissance)
By: Carl Weber
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Now a NAACP-nominated Limited Series on BET! Hidden away near the end of Long Island, New York, is… read more
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15. Night Wherever We Go
By: Tracey Rose Peyton
3.85
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more
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16. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices o… read more
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"...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"Estimates of the percentage of enslaved Africans who were Muslim arriving in North America vary widely...between 8 and 20 percent is a reasonable estimate..."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
"..we find some of the deepest traces of Islam and other traditional African religions in places like Sapelo Island, home of the Gullah Geechee people. Islam's strong roots persisted here in ways that…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
17. The Black Box: Writing the Race
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more
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18. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and a… read more
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19. Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life
By: Nicholas D. Kristof
4.55
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, … read more
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20. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Kate Clifford Larson
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, fi… read more
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21. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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