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Hidden Figures

By Margot Lee Shetterly ,

Book cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

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Becoming

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The Cooking Gene

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Book cover of The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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The Half Has Never Been Told

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Book cover of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Souls of Black Folk

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Never Caught

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Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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At the Dark End of the Street

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The Yellow House

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Book cover of The Yellow House: A Memoir
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Confederate Reckoning

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Book cover of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Stamped from the Beginning

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Book cover of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Barracoon

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The Color of Money

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Freedom National

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Book cover of Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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Medical Bondage

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Book cover of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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The War Before the War

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Malcolm X

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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret

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Radical Vision

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Knocking on Labor's Door

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Black Gotham

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Book cover of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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The Slave's Cause

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Farming While Black

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Book cover of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
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Household Workers Unite

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Book cover of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Family Properties

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Book cover of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
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The Condemnation of Blackness

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Tales from the Haunted South

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Book cover of Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Obama

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Book cover of Obama: An Intimate Portrait
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Illusions of Emancipation

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They Left Great Marks on Me

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Devil in the Grove

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Be Free or Die

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Atlanta, Cradle of the New South

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Book cover of Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
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The Christian Imagination

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Lynching and Spectacle

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Book cover of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
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"There Is a North"

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Ties That Bind

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Tropical Freedom

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Book cover of Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

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Representing the Race

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Redemption

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The Seminarian

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The Last Hero

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Right to Ride

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Occupied Territory

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Undercurrents of Power

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Book cover of Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: African American Women's Art and Activism in West Germany
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Black Power, Jewish Politics

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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

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Oscar Charleston

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Black Detroit

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Stolen

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Book cover of Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

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A World More Concrete

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Race for Profit

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Book cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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Detroit

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Breaking White Supremacy

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The Beast Side

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African Samurai

By Thomas Lockley , Geoffrey Girard ,

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Counting on Katherine

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Poet

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Black Cowboys in the American West

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Before She Was Harriet

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The Dawn of Detroit

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Becoming Belafonte

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Reclaiming 42

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Book cover of Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy
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Black Rights/White Wrongs

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Book cover of Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar , Kathleen Van Cleve ,

Book cover of Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away
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A Computer Called Katherine

By Suzanne Slade , Veronica Miller Jamison (illustrator) ,

Book cover of A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
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Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South

By Jaime Amanda Martinez ,

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The Undercommons

By Stefano Harney , Fred Moten ,

Book cover of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
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The Freedom Principle

By Naomi Beckwith (editor) , Dieter Roelstraete ,

Book cover of The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
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Negroland

By Margo Jefferson ,

Book cover of Negroland: A Memoir
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Transforming Scriptures

By Katherine Clay Bassard ,

Book cover of Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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Medicalizing Blackness

By Rana A. Hogarth ,

Book cover of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
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We've Got a Job

By Cynthia Levinson ,

Book cover of We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By James Weldon Johnson ,

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The Search for the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York

By Tom Calarco ,

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George Washington Carver

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Book cover of George Washington Carver: A Life
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Jane Crow

By Rosalind Rosenberg ,

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The Speech

By Gary Younge ,

Book cover of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream