Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
By: Imani Perry
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America a…
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. To Be a Slave
By: Julius Lester , Tom Feelings
3.92
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A Newbery Honor BookWhat was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives … read more
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- nonfiction
- african american
- biography
3. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- african american
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
4. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By: Brittney Cooper
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
5. No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- african american
6. Salvation: Black People and Love
By: bell hooks
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in Ame… read more
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- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
7. The Wedding
By: Dorothy West
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
An Oprah Winfrey Presents Mini-Series on ABC Network Television Starring Halle Berry In her last no… read more
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- race
- african american
8. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
209 PAGES. read more
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- african american
- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
9. The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
By: Kao Kalia Yang
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrif… read more
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10. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
By: bell hooks
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas originally released in 1994, it won criti… read more
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11. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
By: Sharon Brous
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. 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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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
13. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
14. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- anti racist
- audiobook
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
15. She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
4.17
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated trib… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Ironically, slavery's burdens - all that that she suffered while working with different yet demanding families - turned Harriet into a warrior, a warrior who was ready to slay the dragon of human bon…"-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
16. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
- biography
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- audiobook
17. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anti racist
- audiobook
18. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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- audiobook
19. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
21. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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- race
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
22. Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
By: Chanel Miller
4.48
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story o… read more
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- audiobook
23. Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
By: Emma Fick
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator Emma Fick’s epic train j… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
24. We Are a Haunting
By: Tyriek White
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Following three generations of East New Yorkers; a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical re… read more
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- race
25. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
26. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
By: Emily Bernard
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- anti racist
- audiobook
"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
27. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
By: Imani Perry
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America a… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- anti racist
- audiobook
28. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
29. Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her fat… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"In religious terms, each time the oppressed chooses to forgive the oppressor, each time, on those rare occasions, they find themselves having a modicum of power over them and offering them mercy inst…"-Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
30. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more
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- race
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
31. Someone Like Us
By: Dinaw Mengestu
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more
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- audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us
