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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court (New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017).

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster (New York: Tin House Books, 2019).

Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019).

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Columbus: Two Dollar Radio, 2017).

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Don’t Dance No’ Mo’ (New York: Random House, 2020).

James Adair, The History of the American Indians (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (New York: Knopf, 2017).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus: A Novel (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2012).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck (New York: Knopf, 2009).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (New York: Anchor Books, 2015).

Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow (New York: New Press, 2012).

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Jeffrey Renard Allen, Holding Pattern: Stories (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2008).

Jeffrey Renard Allen, Rails Under My Back (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015).

Jeffrey Renard Allen, Song of the Shank: A Novel (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014).

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables (Triplicane: MJP Publishers, 2019).

Kofi Annan, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace (London: Penguin Books, 2013).

Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2014).

Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden, We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (New York: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2019).

Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph: A biographical portrait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).

William L. Andrews, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Maya Angelou, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (New York: Vintage, 1991).

Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems (New York: Random House, 1978).

Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name (New York: Random House, 2009).

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (New York: Random House, 2009).

Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter (New York: Random House, 2009).

Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sara Jane Boyers, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2018).

Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom (New York: Random House, 2013).

Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women (New York: Random House, 1995).

Maya Angelou, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (New York: Random House, 2009).

Maya Angelou, The Complete Poetry (New York: Random House, 2015).

Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman (New York: Random House, 2009).

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now (New York: Random House, 1993).

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Marimba Ani, Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc., 1994).

B. Christine Arce, Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women (Albany: SUNY Press, 2016).

Asfa-Wossen Asserate, King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (London: Haus Publishing, 2015).

Colleen Aycock, Mark Scott, Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2008).

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James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 1989).

James Baldwin, Dark Days (London: Penguin, 2018).

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (New York: Vintage Books, 2013).

James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain (London: Penguin Books, 2001).

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk (New York: Vintage, 2006).

James Baldwin, Just Above My Head (New York: Dial Press, 1979).

James Baldwin, No Name in the Street (New York: Vintage, 2007).

James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues (London: Penguin Books, 1991).

James Baldwin, The Amen Corner: A Play (New York: Vintage, 1998).

James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work (New York: Vintage, 2011).

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (London: Penguin Books, 2007).

Erica L. Ball, Madam C.J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019).

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Amiri Baraka, The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

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Leroy Barnes, Tom Folsom, Mr. Untouchable (New York: Rugged Land, 2007).

Robert Bauval, Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos (New York: Disinformation Books, 2013).

Joyce Frisby Baynes, Harold S Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Marilyn J. Holifield, Aundrea White Kelley, Marilyn Allman Maye, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (Coral Gables: Books & Books Press, 2019).

Paul Beatty, Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2006).

Paul Beatty, Sellout (London: Picador Press, 2016).

Paul Beatty, Slumberland: A Novel (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2009).

Paul Beatty, The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996).

Paul Beatty, Tuff: A Novel (Norwell: Anchor Press, 2001).

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Vintage, 2015).

Chrisanne Beckner, 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (Christchurch: Bluewood Books, 1995).

Benoy K. Behl, Ajanta Caves: Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist India (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998).

Harry Belafonte, Michael Shnayerson, My Song: A Memoir (New York: Knopf, 2011).

Gregory S. Bell, In the Black: A History of African Americans on Wall Street (New York: Wiley, 2001).

Alessandra Belloni, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: Chants, Music, and Sacred Practices of the Great Goddess (Rochester: Bear & Company, 2019).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1991).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, African Origins of Major “Western Religions” (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1991).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Africa: Mother of Western Civilization (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1997).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Black Man of the Nile (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1996).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 2004).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, The Need for a Black Bible (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1996).

Yosef Ben-Jochannan, We, the Black Jews: Witness to the ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth, Volumes I & II (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1996).

Ruha Benjamin, Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019).

Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019).

Herman L. Bennett, Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).

Herman L. Bennett, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Herman L. Bennett, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine (New York: Knopf, 2019).

Emily Bernard, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).

Leslie K. Best, The Afro-Latino: A Historical Journey (Matteson: Becslie Publishing, 2010).

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Serge Bile, Black Man on the Titanic: The Story of Joseph Laroche (Coral Gables: Mango Press, 2019).

David Birmingham, Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998).

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (New York: Doubleday, 2008).

John W. W. Blassingame, Black New Orleans, 1860-1880 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976).

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Ney York: Simon & Schuster, 2018).

Peter Bodo, Ashe vs Connors: Wimbledon 1975: Tennis that went beyond Centre Court (London: Aurum Press, 2015).

Donald Bogle, Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood (London: One World, 2006).

Donald Bogle, Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2019).

Kevin J. Bozant, African American New Orleans: A Guide to 100 Civil Rights, Culture and Jazz Sites (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012).

Arnold C. Brackman, The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen (New York: Pocket Books, 1977).

Lean’tin Bracks, African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence (Canton Charter Township: Visible Ink Press, 2011).

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man: Stories (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2018).

Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Afua Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, Adrienne Shadd, We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up’: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History (Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 1994).

Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks (Chicago: Third World Press, 1994).

Gwendolyn Brooks, Bronzeville Boys and Girls (New York: HarperCollins, 2015).

Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha (Chicago: Third World Press, 1992).

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Gwendolyn Brooks, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (New York: Library of America, 2005).

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Jericho Brown, Please (Kalamazoo: New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008).

Jericho Brown, The New Testament (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2014).

Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2019).

Jim Brown, Myron Cope, Off My Chest (New York: Doubleday, 1964).

Jim Brown, Out of Bounds (New York: Citadel, 2018).

Vincent Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020).

William Wells Brown, Clotel or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014).

Howard Bryant, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (New York: Pantheon, 2010).

Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play (New York: MCD, 2018).

Nicholas Buccola, The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).

Nicholas Buccola, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (New York: NYU Press, 2012).

Michael Burgan, Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler’s Evil Myth (North Mankato: Compass Point Books, 2017).

Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth (New York: PublicAffairs, 2015).

Marcus Burke, Team Seven: A Novel (Norwell: Anchor Press, 2014).

Tom Burrell, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority (Carson: Smiley Books, 2010).

Margaret Busby, New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (New York: Amistad Press, 2019).

Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two) (New York: Warner Aspect Books, 1997).

Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).

Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007).

Octavia E. Butler, Imago (Book Three of the Xenogenesis Series) (London: Aspect Publishing, 2014).

Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003).

Octavia E. Butler, Lilith’s Brood (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000).

Octavia E. Butler, Mind of My Mind (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2020).

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2019).

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2019).

Octavia E. Butler, Seed to Harvest (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007).

Octavia E. Butler, Survivor (London: Sphere, 1981).

Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2020).

Christopher Cameron, Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019). 

Marne L. Campbell, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Stokely Carmichael, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (New York: Scribner, 2003).

Stokely Carmichael, Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007).

Mary Schmidt Campbell, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013).

Karen Celestan, Freedom’s Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2018).

Aime Cesaire, A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest;’ Adaptation for a Black Theatre (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2002).

Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001).

Aime Cesaire, Return to my Native Land (New York: Archipelago, 2014).

Aime Cesaire, The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire: Bilingual Edition (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2017).

Jack Chambers, Milestones: The Music And Times Of Miles Davis (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1998).

Charlamagne Tha God, Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It (New York: Atria Books, 2017).

Dan Charnas, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (New York: Berkley Books, 2011).

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John Henrik Clarke, African People in World History (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1993).

John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop And the New Light on African History (Brawtley Press, 2015)

John Henrik Clarke, Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism (Cleveland: EWorld Inc., 2011).

John Henrik Clarke, Malcolm X: The Man and His Times (Lawrenceville: Africa World Press, 1991).

John Henrik Clarke, My Life in Search of Africa (Chicago: Third World Press, 1999).

John Henrik Clarke, New Dimensions in African History (Brawtley Press, 2016).

John Henrik Clarke, Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches (Chicago: Third World Press, 1993).

P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo (New York: Tor Books, 2016).

P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout (New York: Tor Books, 2020).

P. Djèlí Clark, The Black God’s Drums (New York: Tor Books, 2018).

P. Djèlí Clark, The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (New York: Tor Books, 2019).

Tom Clavin, Phil Keith, All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy (New York: Hanover Square Press, 2019).

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015).

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015).

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer (New York: One World, 2019).

Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (New York: One World, 2017).

Adam Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America (New York: Penguin Press, 2020).

Robert Cohen, Black Crusader: A Biography of Robert Franklin Williams (Englewood: Lyle Stuart, 1972).

Teju Cole, Blind Spot (New York: Random House, 2017).

Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief (New York: Random House, 2014).

Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays (New York: Random House, 2016).

Teju Cole, Open City: A Novel (New York: Random House, 2011).

Brittney C. Cooper, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2017).

Brittney C. Cooper, Eloquent Rage (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018).

Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn, The Crunk Feminist Collection (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017).

George A. Corbin, Native Arts Of North America, Africa, And The South Pacific: An Introduction (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988).

Stanley Crouch, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (New York: Harper, 2013).

Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York: NYRB Classics, 2005).

Celia Cruz, Ana Cristina Reymundo, Celia: My Life (New York: Rayo, 2004).

Pero G. Dagbovie, Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the 21st Century (London: Verso Books, 2018).

Douglas H. Daniels, Lester Leaps in: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002).

Douglas H. Daniels, Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980).

Douglas H. Daniels, One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007). 

Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (New York: Soho Press, 2015).

Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (New York: Vintage, 2008).

Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light (New York: Vintage, 2014).

Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (New York: Vintage, 2011).

Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories (New York: Knopf, 2019).

Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak! (New York: Soho Press, 2015).

Edwidge Danticat, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017).

Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (New York: Vintage, 2005).

Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (New York: Soho Press, 2013).

Jerry Dantzic, Grayson Dantzic, Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill (London: Thames & Hudson, 2017).

Joanna Dee Das, Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Angela Y. Davis, Angela Davis: With My Mind on Freedom (New York: Bantam Books, 1975).

Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).

Angela Y. Davis, Angela Davis: An Autobiography (New York: International Publishers Co., 2013).

Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003).

Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon, 1998).

Angela Y. Davis, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2012).

Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, & Class (Visalia: Vintage, 1983).

James Davis, Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Kenneth C. Davis, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2016).

Nathan Alan Davis, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (New York: Samuel French, Inc., 2017).

Nathan Alan Davis, Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York: Samuel French, Inc., 2017).

Tracy Davis, Laura M. Harrison, Advancing Social Justice: Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013).

Willie Davis, Jim Martyka, Andrea Erickson Davis, Closing the Gap: Lombardi, the Packers Dynasty, and the Pursuit of Excellence (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2012).

Nica de Koenigswarter, Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008).

Boris de Rachewiltz, Black Eros: Sexual customs of Africa from prehistory to the present day (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1964).

Chris DeVito, Coltrane on Coltrane (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2010).

M. K. Dhavalikar, Ellora (Monumental Legacy) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Jason Diakité, A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir (Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2020).

Cheikh Anta Diop, Black Africa: Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State (Westport: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1978).

Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Westport: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1991).

Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Modern States (Westport: Lawrence Hill Books, 1988).

Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Westport: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989).

Cheikh Anta Diop, Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in African Culture and Development, 1946-1960 (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2000).

Frederick Douglass, John Brown: An Address (Sydney: Wentworth Press, 2019).

Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (London: Penguin Classics, 2003).

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Independently published, 2019).

Bill Downey, Black Viking (London: Sphere Books, 1982).

Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2004). 

Laurent Dubois, The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016). 

Laurent Dubois, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012).

Laurent Dubois, Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York: Free Press, 1998).

W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1999).

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (G&D Media, 2019).

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Talented Tenth (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017).

W.E.B. Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Hudson: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018).

Tananarive Due, The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s First Black Female Millionaire (London: One World, 2001).

Bill Duke, Shelia P. Moses, Dark Girls (New York: Amistad, 2014).

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People Book 2) (Boston: Beacon Press, 2019).

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) (Boston:   Beacon Press, 2015).

Philip Durham, Everett L. Jones, The Negro Cowboys (New York: Dodd Mead, 1965).

Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Death and How it Changed America (New York: Civitas Books, 2008).

Michael Eric Dyson, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Michael Eric Dyson, Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson (New York: Civitas Books, 2011).

Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster (New York: Civitas Books, 2007).

Michael Eric Dyson, Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson (New York: Civitas Books, 2007).

Michael Eric Dyson, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur (New York: Civitas Books, 2006).

Michael Eric Dyson, Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? (New York: Civitas Books, 2006).

Michael Eric Dyson, JAY-Z: Made in America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019).

Michael Eric Dyson, Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop (New York: Civitas Books, 2010).

Michael Eric Dyson, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye (New York: Civitas Books, 2005).

Michael Eric Dyson, Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018).

Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017).

Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America (Boston: Mariner Books, 2017).

Michael Eric Dyson, The Michael Eric Dyson Reader (New York: Civitas Books, 2004).

Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination PA (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001).

Cornelius Eady, Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008).

Cornelius Eady, Rochester 585/716: Postcards from America Project (Reading: Aperture Press, 2015).

Cornelius Eady, The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007).

Cornelius Eady, The War Against the Obvious (Durham: Jacar Press, 2018).

Cornelius Eady, You Don’t Miss Your Water: Poems (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1995).

Cornelius Eady, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997).

Marian Wright Edelman, Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors (New York: Harper Perennial, 2000).

Marian Wright Edelman, Stand for Children (New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1998).

Marian Wright Edelman, The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993).

Marian Wright Edelman, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation (Westport: Hyperion, 2008).

Charles River Editors, Latin American Revolutionaries: The Life and Legacy of Fidel Castro (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013).

Esi Edugyan, Washington Black: A novel (New York:  Vintage Books, 2018).

Bandele El-Amin, Moorish/Muurish Treaties: Guide to Treaties and Declarations (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014).

Bandele El-Amin, Nationality, Birthrights and Jurisprudence: New Social & Cultural Blueprint for Melaninated Indigenous People (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014).

Leonhard Emmerling, Basquiat (New York: Taschen, 2015).

T.J. English, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba . . . And Then Lost It to the Revolution (New York: Morrow, 2008).

Julius Erving, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Dr. J: The Autobiography (New York: Harper, 2013).

Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable, The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches (New York: Civitas Books, 2005).

Daniel J. Fairbanks, Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (New York: Prometheus, 2015).

Frantz Fanon, Haakon Chevalier, A Dying Colonialism (New York: Grove Press, 1994).

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