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Kinsey Collection
by:
Bernard W. Kinsey
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by:
Edward E. Baptist
4.45 avg rating β 5,507 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by:
Douglas A. Blackmon
4.38 avg rating β 7,035 ratings
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Conversations with August Wilson (Literary Conversations Series)
by:
Jackson R. Bryer
3.74 avg rating β 19 ratings
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Romare Bearden, American Modernist
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Romare Bearden
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
by:
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
4.03 avg rating β 250 ratings
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Legacy: Treasures of Black History
by:
Donna Wells
4.06 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Romare Bearden: His Life and Art
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Romare Bearden
4.69 avg rating β 13 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating β 4,085 ratings
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
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Ashley Kahn
4.26 avg rating β 1,328 ratings
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Egypt on the Potomac
by:
Anthony T. Browder
4.58 avg rating β 52 ratings
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I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
by:
Arnold Adoff
4.20 avg rating β 153 ratings
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Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
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Mayme Johnson
4.24 avg rating β 262 ratings
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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
by:
Jacques Derrida
3.77 avg rating β 1,074 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by:
Danielle L. McGuire
4.47 avg rating β 3,602 ratings
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Three Plays: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Fences / Joe Turner's Come and Gone
by:
August Wilson
4.19 avg rating β 141 ratings
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
by:
Lonnie G. Bunch III
4.32 avg rating β 395 ratings
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August Wilson and Black Aesthetics
by:
Dana A. Williams
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
4.69 avg rating β 39 ratings
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Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by:
Achille Mbembe
4.08 avg rating β 502 ratings
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From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600β1830 (African Studies Book 113)
by:
Walter Hawthorne
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast,1400-1900 (Social History of Africa Series)
by:
Walter Hawthorne
3.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
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Rosa Parks
4.27 avg rating β 263 ratings
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White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
by:
Robert Vitalis
3.69 avg rating β 78 ratings
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by:
Neil Gaiman
4.10 avg rating β 978,807 ratings
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
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Omar Ibn Said
3.90 avg rating β 129 ratings
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by:
James H. Cone
4.50 avg rating β 6,060 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
by:
Zora Neale Hurston
4.05 avg rating β 32,082 ratings
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From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family
by:
James H. Johnston
4.03 avg rating β 58 ratings
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Myth, Literature and the African World
by:
Wole Soyinka
3.97 avg rating β 70 ratings
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
by:
Stephen B. Oates
3.80 avg rating β 660 ratings
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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
by:
Michael W. Twitty
3.87 avg rating β 8,046 ratings
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The Fires of Jubilee
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Stephen B. Oates
3.80 avg rating β 660 ratings
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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August Wilson
3.96 avg rating β 3,394 ratings
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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August Wilson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,967 ratings
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Jitney
by:
August Wilson
4.09 avg rating β 1,120 ratings
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August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle
by:
Alan Nadel
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
38.
Gerridae: Book 2 in the Going Away Parties Murder Mystery Series
by:
Kim Marie Coleman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
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Ralph Ellison
4.07 avg rating β 84 ratings
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May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson
by:
Alan Nadel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 18 ratings
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An Oral History of the Portuguese Colonial War: Conscripted Generation
by:
Angela Campos
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.30 avg rating β 948 ratings
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The Total Work Of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace
by:
Matthew Wilson Smith
4.41 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
by:
Naomi Beckwith
4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
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The I-10 Incident: Book 1 in the Going Away Parties Murder Mystery Series
by:
Kim Marie Coleman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Transfigurations: Collected Poems
by:
Jay Wright
4.55 avg rating β 49 ratings
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
by:
Nicholas Guyatt
3.80 avg rating β 105 ratings
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Trombones: A Sonnet Crown
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Raymond D. Maxwell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Understanding Etheridge Knight
by:
Michael S. Collins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Civilities and Civil Rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
by:
William Henry Chafe
3.90 avg rating β 128 ratings
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Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
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AmΓlcar Cabral
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of AmΓlcar Cabral
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AmΓlcar Cabral
4.42 avg rating β 205 ratings
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Toward the African Revolution
by:
Frantz Fanon
4.29 avg rating β 574 ratings
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
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Ashley Kahn
4.25 avg rating β 1,353 ratings
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Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau
by:
Paulo Freire
4.21 avg rating β 47 ratings
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
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Amiri Baraka
3.79 avg rating β 28 ratings
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The Book of American Negro Poetry
by:
James Weldon Johnson
4.24 avg rating β 458 ratings
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry: 200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets
by:
Michael S. Harper
4.18 avg rating β 136 ratings
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Harlem Gallery and Other Poems
by:
Melvin B. Tolson
4.22 avg rating β 54 ratings
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Native Guard
by:
Natasha Trethewey
4.20 avg rating β 4,698 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
by:
Paul Laurence Dunbar
4.36 avg rating β 259 ratings
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The Collected Poems
by:
Langston Hughes
4.36 avg rating β 18,158 ratings
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Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems
by:
James Baldwin
3.99 avg rating β 209 ratings
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Three Books by Imanu Amiri Baraka
by:
Amiri Baraka
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Complete Writings
by:
Phillis Wheatley
3.66 avg rating β 397 ratings
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
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Gwendolyn Brooks
4.35 avg rating β 906 ratings
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Report from Part One
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Gwendolyn Brooks
4.13 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Report from Part Two
by:
Gwendolyn Brooks
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
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The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
by:
Joanne M. Braxton
4.26 avg rating β 257 ratings
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
by:
Lucille Clifton
4.26 avg rating β 2,162 ratings
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by:
Camille T. Dungy
4.61 avg rating β 473 ratings
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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
by:
Amiri Baraka
4.26 avg rating β 348 ratings
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Things I Must Have Known
by:
A.B. Spellman
4.32 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance
by:
Amy Helene Kirschke
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by:
Harriet A. Washington
4.43 avg rating β 9,664 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating β 113,286 ratings
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 9th Edition
by:
John Hope Franklin
4.12 avg rating β 91 ratings