The Black Feminist Bookshelf

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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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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,792 ratings
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 4.45 avg rating — 8,771 ratings
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 4.51 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies
Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies 4.66 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement 4.58 avg rating — 13,957 ratings
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men 4.40 avg rating — 1,782 ratings
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Iola Leroy
Iola Leroy 3.54 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision 4.33 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist
Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892
Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves 4.36 avg rating — 6,485 ratings
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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library 4.25 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex 4.13 avg rating — 336 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,461 ratings
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol 4.19 avg rating — 1,249 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 — 568,941 ratings
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My Soul is A Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality
My Soul is A Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
The Black Woman: An Anthology 4.49 avg rating — 401 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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work 4.60 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film 4.37 avg rating — 213 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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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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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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Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture
Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness 4.51 avg rating — 2,577 ratings
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters 4.05 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals 4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
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Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life 4.54 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 ratings
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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
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The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
by: Han Kang
3.64 avg rating — 320,368 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,734 ratings
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism 4.35 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory 4.40 avg rating — 136 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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Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture
Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women 4.55 avg rating — 6,263 ratings
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Black Women, Writing and Identity
Black Women, Writing and Identity 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions 4.27 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs 3.77 avg rating — 738 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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Can I Get a Witness?: Black Women and Depression
Can I Get a Witness?: Black Women and Depression 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 4.19 avg rating — 113 ratings
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On Intellectual Activism
On Intellectual Activism 4.36 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women 4.10 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism
Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism 4.26 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Life Doesn't Frighten Me 4.44 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden 4.14 avg rating — 3,424 ratings