#CharlestonSyllabus

1.
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 — 115,055 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,425 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,010 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,298 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,168 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,385 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,197 ratings
8.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,818 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,512 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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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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The Mis-Education of the Negro
The Mis-Education of the Negro 4.49 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,728 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
15.
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth 4.34 avg rating — 30,607 ratings
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Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 3
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 3 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era 3.78 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
20.
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Mercy
A Mercy 3.76 avg rating — 31,916 ratings
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Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 4.25 avg rating — 52 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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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood 4.06 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree 4.50 avg rating — 6,060 ratings
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction 4.21 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
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Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
28.
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,695 ratings
29.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination 4.38 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution 1963-1994
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution 1963-1994 3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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An ABC of Color
An ABC of Color 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Red Record
The Red Record 4.45 avg rating — 532 ratings
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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible 4.24 avg rating — 882 ratings
35.
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story 4.18 avg rating — 3,751 ratings
36.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
37.
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture)
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture) 4.08 avg rating — 823 ratings
38.
Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation 4.36 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
39.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
40.
Toward the African Revolution
Toward the African Revolution 4.29 avg rating — 574 ratings
40.
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,670 ratings
42.
Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
by: Emma Hart
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
42.
Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
42.
The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston
The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
45.
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 4.30 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South 3.99 avg rating — 547 ratings
47.
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow 4.44 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Slave Narratives South Carolina
Slave Narratives South Carolina 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
49.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy 4.22 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
50.
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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Writing Beyond Race
Writing Beyond Race 4.18 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps
Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972
Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition 3.90 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 4.51 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
56.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,671 ratings
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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,751 ratings
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
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A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice
A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Racial Contract
The Racial Contract 4.39 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
62.
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice 4.30 avg rating — 521 ratings
63.
He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey 3.57 avg rating — 49 ratings
64.
Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory
Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory 3.77 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) 3.99 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
66.
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
67.
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 24,893 ratings
67.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
69.
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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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
71.
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South 4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
72.
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch 4.17 avg rating — 798 ratings
73.
Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity (The African American Experience Series)
Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity (The African American Experience Series) 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings
74.
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions 4.17 avg rating — 66 ratings
74.
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
74.
The Invention of Wings
The Invention of Wings 4.26 avg rating — 328,083 ratings
74.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
74.
Race Real Estate and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000
Race Real Estate and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000 4.13 avg rating — 67 ratings
74.
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period 4.29 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Fourth Century
The Fourth Century 4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings
81.
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox 3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings
81.
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (Harvest Book)
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (Harvest Book) 4.43 avg rating — 114 ratings
81.
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South 1932-1968
The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South 1932-1968 3.82 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,670 ratings
85.
John Brown
John Brown 4.32 avg rating — 748 ratings
85.
The New Mind of the South
The New Mind of the South 3.67 avg rating — 312 ratings
85.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow 4.14 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
85.
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,601 ratings
85.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
90.
The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life
The Great Wells Of Democracy: The Meaning Of Race In American Life 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings
90.
Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 3.68 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Peculiar Institution
The Peculiar Institution 4.14 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America 4.35 avg rating — 598 ratings
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics 4.22 avg rating — 858 ratings
95.
Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
98.
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan 3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings
98.
Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885
Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Southern Biography Series)
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Southern Biography Series) 3.98 avg rating — 97 ratings
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