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Sulwe
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Sulwe

By Lupita Nyong'o , Vashti Harrison (illustrator) ,

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The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
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The Souls of Black Folk

By W. E. B. Du Bois ,

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Black and British: A Forgotten History
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Black and British

By David Olusoga ,

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The Jumbies
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The Jumbies

By Tracey Baptiste ,

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A Long Walk to Water
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A Long Walk to Water

By Linda Sue Park ,

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Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial Lima
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Exquisite Slaves

By Tamara J. Walker ,

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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
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Dark Matters

By Simone Browne ,

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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
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Black Tudors

By Miranda Kaufmann ,

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England's Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society
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England's Other Countrymen

By Onyeka Nubia ,

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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
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Tropical Freedom

By Ikuko Asaka ,

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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
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Representing the Race

By Kenneth W. Mack ,

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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
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Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas

By Cécile Fromont ,

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Britain's Black Debt
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Britain's Black Debt

By Hilary McD. Beckles ,

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The Groundings with My Brothers
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The Groundings with My Brothers

By Walter Rodney ,

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Black British History: New Perspectives
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Black British History

By Hakim Adi ,

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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
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African Samurai

By Thomas Lockley , Geoffrey Girard ,

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Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain
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Faces of Perfect Ebony

By Catherine Molineux ,

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Lovely
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Lovely

By Jess Hong ,

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By James Weldon Johnson ,

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Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay
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Blackness in the White Nation

By George Reid Andrews ,

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The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case
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The Great Cake Mystery

By Alexander McCall Smith ,

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Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution
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Antiracism in Cuba

By Devyn Spence Benson ,

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Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference
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Racism at Work

By Binna Kandola ,

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Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
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Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic

By Melina Pappademos ,

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Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
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Searching for Zion

By Emily Raboteau ,

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Half-Blood Blues
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Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan ,

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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
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African Canadians in Union Blue

By Richard M. Reid ,

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Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style
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Dandy Lion

By Shantrelle P. Lewis ,

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