African American Studies

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Snapshot taken from Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers in African American Studies

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X book cover
  • Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man book cover
  • Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation book cover
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration book cover
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race book cover
  • White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era book cover
  • So You Want to Talk About Race book cover
  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance book cover
  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower book cover
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream book cover
  • The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X book cover
  • The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) book cover
  • The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart book cover
  • At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White book cover
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks book cover
  • The Color of Water book cover
  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race book cover
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race book cover
  • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation) book cover
  • Hair Like Mine (Kids Like Mine Book 1) book cover
  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family book cover
  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective book cover
  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap book cover
  • Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change book cover
  • Think Black: A Memoir book cover
  • The Souls of Black Folk (Original Classic Edition) book cover
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book cover
  • Why We Can't Wait (King Legacy Book 4) book cover
  • Becoming: Now a Major Netflix Documentary book cover
  • How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) book cover
  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree book cover
  • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates book cover
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass book cover
  • Women, Race, & Class book cover
  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir book cover
  • The 48 Laws of Black Empowerment book cover
  • Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory book cover
  • Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South book cover
  • Heavy: An American Memoir book cover
  • Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy Book 2) book cover
  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy book cover
  • Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia [Illustrated] (1916) book cover
  • Up from Slavery (Dover Thrift Editions) book cover
  • Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed book cover
  • Pimp: The Story of My Life book cover
  • How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays book cover
  • Just Us: An American Conversation book cover
  • Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and… book cover
  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose book cover
  • The African Americans book cover
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South book cover
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) book cover
  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism book cover
  • Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger book cover
  • The Book of Delights: Essays book cover
  • The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities book cover
  • Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority book cover
  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals book cover
  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation book cover
  • Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit book cover
  • The Mis-Education of the Negro (Oshun Publishing African-American History Series Book 1) book cover
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" book cover
  • Everything I'm Not Made Me Everything I Am: Discovering Your Personal Best book cover
  • The Negro Christianized. An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro Servants in Christianity… book cover
  • Fences book cover
  • Hellhound On His Trail book cover
  • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow book cover
  • Black Skin, White Masks book cover
  • The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South book cover
  • The Street book cover
  • Black Masters: A Side-Light on Slavery (1904) book cover
  • The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern… book cover
  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable book cover
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (Dover Thrift Editions) book cover
  • They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South book cover
  • For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf book cover
  • Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine book cover
  • We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility book cover
  • Nobody Knows My Name (Vintage International) book cover
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty book cover
  • The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 book cover
  • The Mis-Education of the Negro book cover
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League book cover
  • Intellectuals and Race book cover
  • Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side book cover
  • The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842) book cover
  • I Woke Up A Black Man book cover
  • Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy book cover
  • The Black Hebrew Awakening: The Final 400 Years As Slaves In America book cover
  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul book cover
  • Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk… book cover
  • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy book cover
  • Afropessimism book cover
  • Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America book cover
  • Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago book cover
  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY Book 4) book cover
  • The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863) book cover
  • Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: being the autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African trader for fifty years-from… book cover
  • Nat Turner book cover
  • Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America book cover
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Authors

Authors with:

8 authors with more than one book:

  • 2 - Margot Lee Shetterly
  • 2 - Barack Obama
  • 2 - James Baldwin
  • 2 - Annette Gordon-Reed
  • 2 - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • 2 - Angela Y. Davis
  • 2 - Kiese Laymon
  • 2 - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Series & Titles

Standalone vs Series

Popular Words

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Series in the chart

  • King Legacy (Book 4, Book 2)
  • Kids Like Mine (Book 1)
  • REVISIONING HISTORY (Book 4)

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