The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
By: Jelani Cobb
4.49
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James …
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1. An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more
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- race
- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography
2. April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
"This gulf between hope and the heartbreak that is the lot of millions of black poor is nowhere better glimpsed than in the social and economic circumstances that batter the black family,"-Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
"The state ofmthe black family life in America evokes grave concern and graver criticism. . . .From the suffering of children in families that struggle to gain sufficient economic support, to the diff…"-Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
3. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the… read more
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4. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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5. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
6. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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7. A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more
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8. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
- sociology
9. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
By: James W. Loewen
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and … read more
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10. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
11. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
12. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
13. Time's Undoing
By: Cheryl A. Head
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murd… read more
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- race
14. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
15. Summer on Highland Beach (Summer Beach, #3)
By: Sunny Hostin
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach… read more
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- african american
16. Watch Where They Hide (Jordan Manning, #2)
By: Tamron Hall
3.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring journalist Jordan … read more
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17. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
By: Sheree Renée Thomas
3.79
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more
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- anthologies
18. One of Our Kind
By: Nicola Yoon
3.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more
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- race
19. Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
By: Albert Woodfox
4.42
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary con… read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down e…"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
"Instead of showing you how to build courage," I wrote in response to someone asking me how to be brave, "I write to you to pay tribute to and salute your courage. I embrace your courage. I lie down e…"-Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
20. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
By: Damon Young
4.14
Format: 9 pages, Audiobook
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at… read more
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- race
- memoir
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
"I thought [...] of all the negotiating and navigating it requires to exist while black and relatively sane. And how, for the rest of them, for my [white] teammates and the [white] guys we just played…"-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
"White privilege--the idea that whiteness, for white Americans, provides an imperishable benefit of the doubt and a flexible and perpetually renewable get-out-of-jail-free card-- is often dismissed by…"-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
21. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
By: Jelani Cobb
4.49
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James … read more
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- history
- memoir
- politics
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- african american
- sociology
