Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Adults

94 Books Found

  • All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some...

    By Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia…
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  • American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

    By Terrance Hayes
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  • The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

    By Edwidge Danticat
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  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    By Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
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  • Bad Feminist: Essays

    By Roxane Gay
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  • Between the World and Me

    By Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See,

    By Jennifer L. Eberhardt
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  • The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Rev

    By C.L.R. James
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  • A Black Women's History of the United States

    By Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
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  • The Bluest Eye: A Novel

    By Toni Morrison
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  • Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

    By Imani Perry
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  • A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel

    By Marlon James
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  • Brown

    By Kevin Young
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  • Brutal Imagination

    By Cornelius Eady
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  • Citizen: An American Lyric

    By Claudia Rankine
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  • The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010

    By Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser, eds.
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  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Mod

    By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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  • The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary His

    By Michael W. Twitty
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  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
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  • Diasporic Blackness

    By Vanessa K. Valdés
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  • Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

    By Danez Smith
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  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

    By Brittney Cooper
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  • Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberati

    By Leah Penniman
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  • Feel Free: Essays

    By Zadie Smith
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  • Fences

    By August Wilson
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  • The Fifth Season

    By N.K. Jemisin
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  • The Fire Next Time

    By James Baldwin
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  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

    By Jesmyn Ward, ed.
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  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foun

    By Angela Y. Davis
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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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  • Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During Wo

    By Farah Jasmine Griffin
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  • Heavy: An American Memoir

    By Kiese Laymon
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  • High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

    By Jessica B. Harris
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  • The History of White People

    By Nell Irvin Painter
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  • Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot

    By Mikki Kendall
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  • How to Be an Antiracist

    By Ibram X. Kendi
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  • How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

    By Saeed Jones
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    By Maya Angelou
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  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

    By Alice Walker
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  • Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking

    By Toni Tipton-Martin
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  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

    By Bryan Stevenson
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  • Kindred

    By Octavia E. Butler
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  • Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful

    By Kwame Brathwaite
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  • The Light of the World: A Memoir

    By Elizabeth Alexander
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  • Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

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  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

    By Manning Marable
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  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Beco

    By Layla F. Saad
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  • Men We Reaped: A Memoir

    By Jesmyn Ward
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  • Monument: Poems: New and Selected

    By Natasha Trethewey
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  • My Song: A Memoir

    By Harry Belafonte
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  • Negroland: A Memoir

    By Margo Jefferson
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  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    By Michelle Alexander
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  • The Nickel Boys

    By Colson Whitehead
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  • Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel

    By Candacy Taylor
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  • Parable of the Sower

    By Story by Octavia E. Butler, adapted…
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  • Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

    By Toni Morrison
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  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

    By adrienne maree brown
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  • Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives M

    By Jordan T. Camp & Christina…
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  • Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Pres

    By Deborah Willis
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  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

    By Monique W. Morris
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  • A Raisin in the Sun

    By Lorraine Hansberry
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  • Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Mu

    By Janet Mock
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  • S O S: Poems 1961–2013

    By Amiri Baraka
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  • Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

    By Sonia Sanchez
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  • Sister Outsider

    By Audre Lorde
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  • So You Want to Talk About Race

    By Ijeoma Oluo
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  • The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation Aft

    By Alondra Nelson
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  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Idea

    By Ibram X. Kendi
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  • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of

    By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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  • The Street

    By Ann Petry
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  • Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

    By Mitchell S. Jackson
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  • Sweat

    By Lynn Nottage
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  • Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

    By bell hooks
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  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    By Zora Neale Hurston
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  • Thick: And Other Essays

    By Tressie McMillan Cottom
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  • The Tradition

    By Jericho Brown
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  • The Underground Railroad

    By Colson Whitehead
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  • Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl

    By Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor
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  • Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

    By Robin Coste Lewis
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  • Wade in the Water: Poems

    By Tracy K. Smith
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  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migra

    By Isabel Wilkerson
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  • The Ways of White Folks

    By Langston Hughes
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  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Socia

    By Saidiya Hartman
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  • We Should All Be Feminists

    By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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  • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pu

    By Bettina L. Love
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  • We're On: A June Jordan Reader

    By June Jordan
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  • Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

    By Glory Edim, ed.
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  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

    By Damon Young
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  • Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories

    By Kathleen Collins
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  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

    By Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
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  • Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

    By Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    By Carol Anderson
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  • Who Fears Death

    By Nnedi Okorafor
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  • The Wretched of the Earth

    By Frantz Fanon
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