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Luster

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

African American Women of the Old West

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

For Black Girls Like Me

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World

An Act of Defiance

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

Some Places More Than Others

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

Jubilee

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

The Secret Women

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

The Boyfriend Project

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

The Wind Done Gone

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

The Street

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Mothers

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign

What We Lose

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

nectar

Conjure Women

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

It’s Not All Downhill from Here

The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2)

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Heads of the Colored People

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Women of Motown: An Oral History

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Collected Poems: 1974-2004

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins

Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power

A Black Women’s History of the United States

Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

Black Indian: A Memoir

Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul

Ordinary Light

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Praise Song for the Butterflies: A Novel

Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Life on Mars: Poems

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine

American Spy

The Travelers

God Help the Child

Your House Will Pay

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

Halsey Street

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

The Grind: Black Women and Survival in the Inner City

A Sick Life: TLC ‘n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

Salvage the Bones

A Piece of Cake

Red at the Bone

Thick: And Other Essays

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

Further To Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

The Between

Citizen: An American Lyric

What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

The Yellow House

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Negroland: A Memoir

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women’s Narratives Of Slavery

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

A Burst of Light and Other Essays

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement

Hair Matters: Beauty, Power and Black Women’s Consciousness

The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke

Mixed: My Life in Black and White

A Kind of Freedom

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Kindred

Inside The Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories

The Last Black Unicorn

Becoming

Sing, Unburied, Sing

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

Brown Girl Dreaming

The Heart of a Woman

The Color Purple

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Paradise

The Bluest Eye

The Black Unicorn: Poems

New People

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Their Eyes Were Watching God

U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation

Hidden Figures

Caucasia

Assata: An Autobiography

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou’s Autobiography #1)

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Song of Solomon 

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

The Hate U Give