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Description: The politics of exclusion.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

8,979 members

454 reviews

4

2 Members: bookdrop, ahef1963

2

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7,775 members

369 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bookdrop

3

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

5,313 members

140 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bookdrop

4

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,795 members

132 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bookdrop

5

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup

4,019 members

115 reviews

4.2

Member: bookdrop

6

1,743 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: bookdrop

7

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist

1,093 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bookdrop

8

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

by C. Vann Woodward

1,074 members

5 reviews

4

Member: bookdrop

9

James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, Other Essays

by James Baldwin

1,061 members

6 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: bookdrop

10

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

by Michael Eric Dyson

707 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: bookdrop

11

I Am Not Your Negro (film transcript)

by James Baldwin

443 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: bookdrop

12

Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

by Craig Steven Wilder

271 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookdrop

13

The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

171 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bookdrop

14

Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

117 members

3

Member: bookdrop

15

S O S: Poems 1961-2013

by Amiri Baraka

104 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: bookdrop

16

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

by Henry Louis Jr Gates

82 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: bookdrop

17

True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement

34 members

1 review

4.2

Member: bookdrop

18

University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War

by Alfred L. Brophy

14 members

Member: bookdrop

19

Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

by Junius Williams

13 members

½ 4.5

Member: bookdrop

20

Between slavery and capitalism : the legacy of emancipation in the American south

10 members

Member: bookdrop

About This List

Started: bookdrop
May 2017
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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