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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores h...

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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive his...

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The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1 by Theodore W. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people, nor, according...

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On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Over the past twenty years, the concept of “intersectionality” has emerged as an influential appr...

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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examinatio...

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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

Presenting radical new ways to think about love, the acclaimed cultural critic, feminist, and aut...

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most ...

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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Be...

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and b...

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers...

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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelis...

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The Famished Road by Ben Okri

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like ...

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in ...

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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuri...

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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a bl...

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to und...

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Long Division by Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, relig...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person --...

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We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People by William L. Patterson

The full text of the historic petition to the United Nations, presented to the world in 1951, sim...

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought i...

Books You Should Read Instead of Harassing Black People 21/28

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Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic pac...

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NO...

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's l...

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Xenogenesis: Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago (Xenogenesis, #1-3) by Octavia E. Butler

This is a collected edition of the Xenogenesis trilogy:

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Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldw...

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of t...

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Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers by

Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African desce...

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Nightmare Overhanging Darkly: Essays on Black Culture and Resistance by Acklyn Lynch

Writings of the Black heroes and musicians and the intellectual and physical environment that sha...

@Are0h Isn't the correct answer to this "literally any book"?
@Are0h Thank you, great list! Can't find 23-28, hope you'll post them even tho Feb is over. I've read 3 out of 22 so far 😁

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this reminds me i need to cop Joshua Meyers book on Cedric Robinson