Black Studies

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Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit 4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons 4.08 avg rating — 298 ratings
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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being 4.30 avg rating — 4,131 ratings
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Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture 4.45 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,205 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World 4.36 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route 4.29 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom
The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom 4.26 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem
Way Up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21)
Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (Forecaast; V. 21) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Map to the Door of No Return
A Map to the Door of No Return 4.26 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles 4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human 4.28 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Black Panthers For Beginners
Black Panthers For Beginners
by: Herb Boyd
3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,724 ratings
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The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies 4.50 avg rating — 199 ratings
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s 4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Dear Science and Other Stories
Dear Science and Other Stories 4.57 avg rating — 218 ratings
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography 4.42 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis 4.56 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53) 4.44 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family 3.67 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Zong!
Zong! 4.15 avg rating — 1,687 ratings
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity 4.01 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series) 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties 4.72 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment 4.21 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Afropessimism
Afropessimism 4.25 avg rating — 878 ratings
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The Making of Black Revolutionaries
The Making of Black Revolutionaries 4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 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
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 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness 4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study 4.40 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet 4.50 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 55 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice 4.64 avg rating — 5,799 ratings
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History 4.43 avg rating — 2,335 ratings
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A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Big Black: Stand at Attica
Big Black: Stand at Attica 4.22 avg rating — 867 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,734 ratings
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker 4.49 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination 4.38 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government
Just Harvest: The Story of How Black Farmers Won the Largest Civil Rights Case against the U.S. Government 3.96 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe 4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice 4.23 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism 4.49 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia
The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990 4.21 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo 4.50 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness
The Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit 4.28 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights 4.34 avg rating — 105 ratings
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As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation 4.46 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction
Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Don't Call Us Dead
Don't Call Us Dead 4.46 avg rating — 12,105 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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Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation 4.43 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership 4.50 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing
Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing 3.86 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies 4.43 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Middle Passage
Middle Passage 3.85 avg rating — 5,410 ratings
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The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy
The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Black Girl Magic
Black Girl Magic 4.41 avg rating — 941 ratings
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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America 4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders 4.49 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake
Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South 3.75 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition 4.39 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 4.32 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Black Body
The Black Body 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America 3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 4.25 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945
Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde
The Wind is Spirit: The Life, Love, and Legacy of Audre Lorde 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,599 ratings
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest
Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest 4.33 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition (The Feminist Wire Books)
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition (The Feminist Wire Books) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women 4.40 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity (Critical Cultural Communication, 27)
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity (Critical Cultural Communication, 27) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work 4.47 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems (National Poetry Series)
Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems (National Poetry Series) 4.48 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Revolutionary Suicide
Revolutionary Suicide 4.48 avg rating — 6,760 ratings
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Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism
Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive 4.41 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Corregidora
Corregidora 3.91 avg rating — 5,074 ratings
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