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54 Books in the
Social Science / Essays
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Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present
by
William Jelani Cobb
Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
by
Tre Johnson
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
by
Alice Walker
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
by
Audre Lorde
How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
by
Binyavanga Wainaina
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
by
Brianna Holt
Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation
by
Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
The Black Agenda
by
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
by
Marita Golden
Nothing Personal
by
James Baldwin
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by
Tarana Burke and Brene Brown
Dispatches from the Race War
by
Tim Wise
This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
by
Shayla Lawson
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
by
Phoebe Robinson
My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.: An Autobiography of America
by
Kevin Powell
Thick: And Other Essays
by
Tressie McMillan Cottom
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
by
Jabari Asim
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
by
Roxane Gay
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
by
Fred Moten
Dark Days
by
James Baldwin
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
by
Morgan Jerkins
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by
Fred Moten
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
by
Van Jones
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
by
Jesmyn Ward
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
by
Phoebe Robinson
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
by
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
by
Natalie Y. Moore
We Should All Be Feminists
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson
by
Charles Johnson
Bad Feminist: Essays
by
Roxane Gay
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
by
Howard Zinn
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America
by
Kiese Laymon
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
by
Thomas Glave
On Intellectual Activism
by
Patricia Hill Collins
Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown
by
Ishmael Reed
In Defense of Taboos
by
Stanley Crouch
Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11
by
Caryl Phillips
Howard Zinn on Race
by
Howard Zinn
Razor
by
Amiri Baraka
The Politics Of Black Women’s Hair
by
Althea Prince
The Black Body
by
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, And Insight Of Michael Eric Dyson
by
Michael Eric Dyson
Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today
by
Gil Robertson
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
by
Amiri Baraka
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From An Angry White Male
by
Tim Wise
Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays
by
Thomas Sowell
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures)
by
Dwight McBride
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose
by
Alice Walker
Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
by
Thomas Sowell
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine
by
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
by
Ishmael Reed
The Assassination of the Black Male Image
by
Earl Ofari Hutchinson