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African American63
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Poetry16

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I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin
4.47 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
4.38 average rating, · 7.2k ratings
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.38 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Frederick Joseph
4.46 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Counting Descent
Clint Smith
4.50 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.62 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford
4.49 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
4.26 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert
4.24 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.16 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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No Disrespect
Sister Souljah
4.28 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.32 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Lerone Bennett Jr.
4.44 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward
4.14 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Magical Negro
Morgan Parker
4.30 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Kevin G. Boyle
4.09 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Finna
Nate Marshall
4.46 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Mychal Denzel Smith
4.34 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Let the Children March: An Inspiring Civil Rights Story About Courage and Change for Children
Monica Clark-Robinson
4.57 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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All Because You Matter
Tami Charles
4.50 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Chancellor Williams
4.47 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
LeAlan Jones
4.31 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Natalie Y. Moore
4.02 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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An American Story
Kwame Alexander
4.61 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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