1619 Project

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Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,659 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,661 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,368 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,438 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,858 ratings
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism 4.27 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race 4.35 avg rating — 9,412 ratings
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Dien Cai Dau
Dien Cai Dau 4.32 avg rating — 898 ratings
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Black Deutschland
Black Deutschland 2.90 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Another Brooklyn
Another Brooklyn 3.87 avg rating — 41,162 ratings
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
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New Stories from the South 2008
New Stories from the South 2008
by: ZZ Packer
3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side 4.38 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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High Cotton
High Cotton 3.26 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Long Division
Long Division 3.78 avg rating — 8,302 ratings
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays 3.62 avg rating — 179 ratings
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
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Mother Love
Mother Love
by: Rita Dove
4.02 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Circling Disaster: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System
Circling Disaster: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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American Smooth
American Smooth
by: Rita Dove
3.90 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Suck on the Marrow
Suck on the Marrow 4.30 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry 4.61 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,933 ratings
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Passing for Black
Passing for Black 3.22 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America
Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America 4.27 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Busted in New York and Other Essays
Busted in New York and Other Essays 4.09 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Electric Arches
Electric Arches 4.27 avg rating — 3,560 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,251 ratings
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Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds 3.78 avg rating — 5,252 ratings
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Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Talking Dirty to the Gods
Talking Dirty to the Gods 3.90 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.16 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Pleasure Dome
Pleasure Dome 4.34 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Chameleon Couch
The Chameleon Couch 3.86 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Warhorses
Warhorses 4.17 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Emperor of Water Clocks
The Emperor of Water Clocks 3.90 avg rating — 181 ratings
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I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 3.97 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Lost In The Bonewheel Factory
Lost In The Bonewheel Factory 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Copacetic
Copacetic 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Olio
Olio 4.55 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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leadbelly
leadbelly 4.36 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Olio Live
Olio Live 3.69 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics
Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics 3.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
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If You Come Softly
If You Come Softly 4.03 avg rating — 12,456 ratings
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1919
1919 4.49 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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Ironheart, Vol. 1: Those With Courage
Ironheart, Vol. 1: Those With Courage 4.06 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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Ruined
Ruined 4.17 avg rating — 4,189 ratings
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Sweat
Sweat 4.04 avg rating — 4,455 ratings
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Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine
Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine 3.89 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Intimate Apparel & Fabulation
Intimate Apparel & Fabulation 4.19 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Poof!
Poof! 3.56 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Sobbing School
The Sobbing School 4.28 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series)
by: Rita Dove
3.96 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Selected Poems of Rita Dove
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
by: Rita Dove
3.98 avg rating — 883 ratings
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On the Bus With Rosa Parks
On the Bus With Rosa Parks
by: Rita Dove
3.97 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Bastards of the Reagan Era
Bastards of the Reagan Era 4.22 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm 4.11 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Felon: Poems
Felon: Poems 4.33 avg rating — 2,823 ratings
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Moonlight
Moonlight 4.56 avg rating — 247 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History 4.21 avg rating — 495 ratings
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From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great 4.22 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Smith Blue (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Smith Blue (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.32 avg rating — 138 ratings
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What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison 4.35 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.31 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Passageways
Passageways 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Race in America
Race in America 4.24 avg rating — 87 ratings
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America 3.96 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 4.06 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement
Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University)
The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University) 2.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The New Suburban History
The New Suburban History 3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings