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Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
by:
Roy Hazelwood
4.05 avg rating β 2,869 ratings 
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Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
by:
Linda Goss
4.51 avg rating β 47 ratings 
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
by:
Elliot Jaspin
4.27 avg rating β 381 ratings 
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The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 4.42 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory
by:
Marleen S. Barr
3.31 avg rating β 16 ratings 29. 
Toni Morrison: Critical Perspective Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) 4.24 avg rating β 21 ratings
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The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America 3.72 avg rating β 124 ratings
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In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative 3.86 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora 3.65 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century 3.88 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
by:
Tim Wise
4.14 avg rating β 533 ratings 
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
by:
Loretta J. Ross
4.34 avg rating β 252 ratings 
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Conversations with Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations Series) 4.27 avg rating β 319 ratings
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Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars 4.38 avg rating β 145 ratings
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Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
by:
Si Kahn
3.77 avg rating β 145 ratings 
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The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country 4.07 avg rating β 67 ratings
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The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
by:
David Plouffe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,829 ratings 63. 
The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--and Others Should Too 3.98 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color 4.58 avg rating β 619 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
by:
Bushra Rehman
4.20 avg rating β 3,243 ratings 
69. 
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.47 avg rating β 825 ratings 70. 
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America 3.90 avg rating β 902 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating β 946 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
by:
Claude M. Steele
3.92 avg rating β 6,021 ratings 
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
by:
Gwen Ifill
3.77 avg rating β 397 ratings 77. 
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones 4.16 avg rating β 389 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating β 4,610 ratings
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism 4.02 avg rating β 460 ratings
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Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists
by:
H. Nigel Thomas
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 87. 
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
by:
Blair Imani
4.28 avg rating β 419 ratings 88. 
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Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
by:
E. David Cronon
3.83 avg rating β 65 ratings 92. 
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
by:
Jody Miller
4.08 avg rating β 142 ratings 
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
by:
Sanyika Shakur
4.01 avg rating β 6,560 ratings 
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Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
by:
Charisse Jones
4.16 avg rating β 704 ratings 97. 
Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
by:
Jacqui Malone
4.23 avg rating β 35 ratings 
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