Black women writers

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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 4.56 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,861 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,831 ratings
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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,409 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,585 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,287 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 569,014 ratings
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Discovering The Covering
Discovering The Covering 4.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation 4.40 avg rating — 14,695 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,041 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,164 ratings
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Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,954 ratings
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Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,049 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,057 ratings
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The Complete Collected Poems
The Complete Collected Poems 4.44 avg rating — 13,866 ratings
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Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
by: Rita Dove
4.26 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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In My Place: An Autobiography
In My Place: An Autobiography 3.78 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,758 ratings
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Life on Mars: Poems
Life on Mars: Poems 4.09 avg rating — 9,910 ratings
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How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?: ABORTION IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT!
How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?: ABORTION IS NOT A CIVIL RIGHT! 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress
Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress 4.41 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Oasis Temple
The Oasis Temple it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Discovering The Covering
Discovering The Covering 4.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Within These Wicked Walls
Within These Wicked Walls 3.50 avg rating — 14,170 ratings
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Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,723 ratings
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Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 3.74 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
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Life At All Costs: An Anthology Of Voices From 21 St Century Black Prolife Leaders
Life At All Costs: An Anthology Of Voices From 21 St Century Black Prolife Leaders 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Everything Inside
Everything Inside 3.69 avg rating — 11,977 ratings
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Carefree Black Girls
Carefree Black Girls
by: Zeba Blay
4.31 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Sanctuary
Sanctuary 3.94 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South 4.13 avg rating — 341 ratings
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America Return to God: Repent From Sin, Rebuild the Wall, Repair the Gates, Restore the Dream
America Return to God: Repent From Sin, Rebuild the Wall, Repair the Gates, Restore the Dream 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti 3.78 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Single Black Female
Single Black Female 4.10 avg rating — 2,838 ratings
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Sis, Love the Lord AND ENJOY THAT MAN!
Sis, Love the Lord AND ENJOY THAT MAN!
by: Essie
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Bondwoman's Narrative
The Bondwoman's Narrative 3.91 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Iola Leroy
Iola Leroy 3.54 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
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Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division
Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division 3.78 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story 4.15 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Money Devils 1: A Cartel Novel
Money Devils 1: A Cartel Novel 4.62 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
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Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme
Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme 4.07 avg rating — 494 ratings
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The Red Record
The Red Record 4.45 avg rating — 532 ratings
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Haiti Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) 3.90 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Butterfly 2
Butterfly 2 4.56 avg rating — 4,078 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,516 ratings
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There Is Confusion
There Is Confusion 3.99 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Escaping the Racism of Low Expectations
Escaping the Racism of Low Expectations 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Taste of Country Cooking
The Taste of Country Cooking 4.43 avg rating — 1,479 ratings
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory 3.90 avg rating — 30,929 ratings
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Hurricane Summer
Hurricane Summer 4.24 avg rating — 3,980 ratings
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 4,108 ratings
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Show Way
Show Way 4.26 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
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Quicksand
Quicksand 3.72 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
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Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith
Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Claire of the Sea Light
Claire of the Sea Light 3.67 avg rating — 11,189 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative 3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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The Dangerous Ones
The Dangerous Ones 3.41 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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Paradise
Paradise 3.86 avg rating — 28,540 ratings
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Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir 4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,723 ratings
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Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise
Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise 3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America 3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker 3.81 avg rating — 8,257 ratings
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Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch -- The Awakening of Diamond and Silk
Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch -- The Awakening of Diamond and Silk 4.32 avg rating — 194 ratings
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School 4.12 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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Infidel
Infidel 4.20 avg rating — 91,951 ratings
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Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! 4.16 avg rating — 9,529 ratings
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A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South 4.13 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 4.18 avg rating — 16,210 ratings
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Breaking News: God Has a Plan : An Anchorwoman's Journey Through Faith
Breaking News: God Has a Plan : An Anchorwoman's Journey Through Faith 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 3.79 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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We Real Cool
We Real Cool 4.21 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5)
Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5) 3.98 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success
9 Rules of Engagement: A Military Brat's Guide to Life and Success 4.01 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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In Every Seam (Pitt Poetry Series)
In Every Seam (Pitt Poetry Series) 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Leaving Breezy Street
Leaving Breezy Street 3.97 avg rating — 421 ratings
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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past 3.82 avg rating — 6,241 ratings
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Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Annie Allen
Annie Allen 4.14 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,236 ratings
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Meridian
Meridian 3.75 avg rating — 6,509 ratings
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Movin' On Up
Movin' On Up 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Report from Part One
Report from Part One 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Tar Baby
Tar Baby 3.99 avg rating — 23,196 ratings
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart 3.93 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda
Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
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We Who Believe in Freedom
We Who Believe in Freedom 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives 3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Never Forget: The Riveting Story of One Woman's Journey from Public Housing to the Corridors of Power
Never Forget: The Riveting Story of One Woman's Journey from Public Housing to the Corridors of Power 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series)
We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers (The "Wade in the Water" Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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