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Black Liberation Reading List

Description: These books on are widely used by activists, students, archivists, and curators to better understand the the Black experience in America and recommended by New York Public Library and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. #adults #general


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Title Author Date Added Action
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 02/03/2021
The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 02/03/2021
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 02/03/2021
White Rage Carol Anderson 02/03/2021
White Rage Carol Anderson 02/03/2021
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 02/03/2021
When They Call You a Terrorist Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele and Angela Davis 02/03/2021
S O S Amiri Baraka 02/03/2021
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Frank Barat and Angela Y. Davis 02/03/2021
My Song Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson 02/03/2021
My Song Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson 02/03/2021
A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross 02/03/2021
Summary and Analysis of Their Eyes Were Watching God Worth Books 02/03/2021
Pleasure Activism Adrienne Maree Brown and Favianna Rodriguez and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 02/03/2021
The Tradition Jericho Brown 02/03/2021
Kindred Octavia E. Butler 02/03/2021
Policing the Planet Christina Heatherton and Jordan T. Camp 02/03/2021
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde and Cheryl Clarke 02/03/2021
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 02/03/2021
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James 02/03/2021
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins 02/03/2021
Eloquent Rage Brittney Cooper 02/03/2021
Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 02/03/2021
Brutal Imagination PA Cornelius Eady 02/03/2021
Biased Jennifer L. Eberhardt 02/03/2021

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