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Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol

Seize The Time by Bobby Seale

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson

They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson

Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop

Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

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

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila

Assata by Assata Shakur

Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A N Wilson

Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: The Rise of European Capitalism by Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings

The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Blueprint For Black Power by Dr. Amos Wilson

PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Walker

Harlem: A Century in Images by Deborah Willis

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

Yurugu by Dr. Marimba Ani

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Philosophies and Teachings of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer

Soledad Brothers by George Jackson