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…
Want to Read $ 11.01"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 instead of vengeance, might be interpreted as an act of mercy in favor of the oppressor. Black history is replete with these instances."-Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
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1. Life in the Iron Mills
By: Rebecca Harding Davis , Cecelia Tichi
3.42
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella This defi… read more
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"Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life."-Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
2. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
By: James Baldwin , Lorraine Hansberry , Robert Nemiroff
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Coffee Will Make You Black
By: April Sinclair
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Set on Chicago's Southside in the mid-to-late 60s, Coffee Will Make You Blackis the moving and ente… read more
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4. Negroland
By: Margo Jefferson
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply … read more
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5. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
By: China Martens , Alexis Pauline Gumbs , None
4.00
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers Revolutio… read more
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6. Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting: Real Talk for When There's Nowhere to Go But Up
By: None
3.65
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows because she's one of them. Terrie ha… read more
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7. A Few Red Drops
By: None
3.78
Format: None pages,
Dinah Stevenson at Clarion has acquired world English rights to A Few Red Drops, a YA nonfiction ti… read more
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8. Strange Fruit
By: Lillian E. Smith
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bes… read more
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9. 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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- race
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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
10. 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
- history
- audiobook
11. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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
12. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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- audiobook
13. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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- audiobook
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
14. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
By: Emily Farris
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
15. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- race
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"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
16. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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17. 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
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- audiobook
18. What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
By: Tallu Quinn
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Profound essays on nurturing life while facing a terminal diagnosis, from the dedicated humanitaria… read more
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- memoir
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- audiobook
19. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
By: Glory Edim
4.37
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular boo… read more
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- race
- memoir
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- books about books
- audiobook
"This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"They both squealed in the face of hope and the audacity for a black body to exist despite the system designed to dismember it."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"Cassie's story made me acutely aware of the fact that in that moment, she inhabited a black body, and so marked, would never be gifted with escape."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"That while I wanted to write with the narrative bravado of Toni Morrison, it might be okay if I started with something less ambitious than a book like beloved."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
20. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
By: Stanley D. Rosenberg
3.84
Format: 239 pages, ebook
Techniques et exercices pour améliorer le bien-être physique, émotionnel et social Thérapeute crâni… read more
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- audiobook
"It doesn’t matter how much you drive around, you will never get to where you want to go if you don’t have the right map."-Stanley D. Rosenberg, Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
21. The Great Mrs. Elias
By: Barbara Chase-Riboud
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest b… read more
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22. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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23. The Toni Morrison Book Club
By: Juda Bennett
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and Ameri… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
By: Toni Morrison
4.30
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collectio… read more
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"A perfect thing is not everything."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"To all these people, the attraction was of the “clean slate"-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
"Home is memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory."-Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
27. Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
By: Michelle Miller
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply perso… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. 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
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- memoir
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- books about books
- 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
29. Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans
By: Sammy Lisel
4.51
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Becoming who you are is a journey, and all journeys start somewhere. In a collection of stories … read more
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30. 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
31. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more
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