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The Black Archives: All Power To the People! Reading List

Type: Preset list created by TheBlackArchives

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2
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
by Marcus Garvey
148 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

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Score: 3.36

3
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
by Steve Biko
319 members, 2 reviews
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

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Score: 3.04

5
Know Thyself
by Na'im Akbar
45 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 2.68

6
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
1,950 members, 13 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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Score: 2.56

7
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
4,580 members, 72 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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Score: 2.46

8
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
1,197 members, 41 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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Score: 2.38

9
The Black Jacobins
by C. L. R. James
1,134 members, 17 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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Score: 2.31

11
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
by Stokely Carmichael
482 members, 4 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 2.2

12
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney
606 members, 8 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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Score: 2.15

14
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race
by Gloria Wekker
52 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 2.07

15
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
4,160 members, 56 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 2.03

16
Zwart : Afro-Europese literatuur uit de Lage Landen
by Ebissé Rouw
7 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

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Score: 2

20
De Uitbuiting van Suriname
4 members, 0 reviews

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Score: 1.89

24
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
1,096 members, 11 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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Score: 1.81

25
Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches
by Eldridge Cleaver
157 members, 0 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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Score: 1.79

27
Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
1,520 members, 13 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

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Score: 1.76

28
Assata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur
1,026 members, 19 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 1.74

29
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
by Elaine Brown
345 members, 4 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Score: 1.72

30
But Some of Us Are Brave
by Gloria T. Hull
321 members, 1 review
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 1.71

31
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
2,028 members, 23 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

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Score: 1.7

32
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
6,191 members, 329 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

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Score: 1.68

33
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
4,092 members, 114 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

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Score: 1.67

34
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
4,435 members, 61 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 1.66

35
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
by James Baldwin
675 members, 5 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

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Score: 1.65

36
Tori
by Brian Elstak
4 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 1.63

37
Black is beautiful Rubens tot Dumas
by Elmer Kolfin
5 members, 0 reviews

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Score: 1.62

39
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
127 members, 2 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 1.6

40
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
by Emory Douglas
111 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

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Score: 1.59

41
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks
1,037 members, 14 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 1.58

42
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
by Paul Gilroy
469 members, 1 review
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

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Score: 1.57

44
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
by Kwame Nkrumah
69 members, 1 review
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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Score: 1.55

45
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
3,857 members, 107 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Score: 1.54

46
Discourse on Colonialism
by Aimé Césaire
658 members, 6 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

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Score: 1.54

47
Women, Race, and Class
by Angela Y. Davis
1,542 members, 16 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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Score: 1.53

48
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis
771 members, 17 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

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Score: 1.52

49
De koningin van Paramaribo
by Clark Accord
66 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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Score: 1.51

50
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
by Cedric J. Robinson
264 members, 1 review
4.69 stars (4.69 stars)

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Score: 1.5

52
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes
1,191 members, 11 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 1.49

54
No Humans Involved
by Sylvia Wynter
10 members, 0 reviews

Lists: TheBlackArchives (54)

Score: 1.48

57
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,012 members, 396 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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Score: 1.46

58
Plantation Memories
by Grada Kilomba
22 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 1.45

60
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
346 members, 4 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: TheBlackArchives (60)

Score: 1.44

62
We slaves of Suriname
by Anton de Kom
62 members, 1 review
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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Score: 1.43

65
Hallo witte mensen
by Anousha Nzume
20 members, 1 review
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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Score: 1.41

68
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by Brittney Cooper
428 members, 17 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Score: 1.39

71
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
17,395 members, 310 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: TheBlackArchives (71)

Score: 1.38

73
The Poetry of Maya Angelou
by Maya Angelou
97 members, 1 review
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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Score: 1.37

75
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
710 members, 28 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

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Score: 1.36

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Started by: TheBlackArchives (November 2018)

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