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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
4.45 average rating, · 166k ratings
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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
4.47 average rating, · 92.7k ratings
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The Collected Poems
Langston Hughes
4.36 average rating, · 18.3k ratings
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker
4.09 average rating, · 15.9k ratings
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou
4.29 average rating, · 8.3k ratings
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, said the shotgun to the head.
Saul Williams
4.21 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor
4.04 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
Ivan Van Sertima
4.46 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman
4.29 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Sisters & Lovers
Connie Briscoe
4.20 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Outsider
Richard Wright
4.17 average rating, · 2.5k 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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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
Lucille Clifton
4.26 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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She
Saul Williams
4.21 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Praise Song for the Butterflies
Bernice L. McFadden
4.15 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Eugene D. Genovese
4.03 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Sweat
Zora Neale Hurston
4.02 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica B. Harris
4.19 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Ira Berlin
4.11 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Church Folk
Michele Andrea Bowen
4.26 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Olio
Tyehimba Jess
4.55 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Coming
Daniel Black
4.44 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Nana Akua Goes to School
Tricia Elam Walker
4.47 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Bicycles: Love Poems
Nikki Giovanni
4.07 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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