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Black Liberation Reading List

Description: These books on are widely used by activists, students, archivists, and curators to better understand the the Black experience in America and recommended by New York Public Library and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. #adults #general


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Title Author Date Added Action
Survival Math Mitchell Jackson 02/03/2021
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay 02/03/2021
Citizen Claudia Rankine 02/03/2021
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 02/03/2021
Malcolm X Manning Marable 02/03/2021
White Rage Carol Anderson 02/03/2021
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward 02/03/2021
Me and White Supremacy Layla Saad 02/03/2021
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker Damon Young 02/03/2021
Pleasure Activism Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Adrienne Maree Brown and Favianna Rodriguez 02/03/2021
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry 02/03/2021
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 02/03/2021
How We Fight for Our Lives Saeed Jones 02/03/2021
Feel Free Zadie Smith 02/03/2021
The Social Life of DNA Alondra Nelson 02/03/2021
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde and Cheryl Clarke 02/03/2021
Farming While Black Leah Penniman and Karen Washington 02/03/2021
We Want to Do More Than Survive Bettina Love 02/03/2021
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X 02/03/2021
Pushout Monique W. Morris 02/03/2021
Policing the Planet Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton 02/03/2021
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 02/03/2021
Well-Read Black Girl Glory Edim 02/03/2021
Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 02/03/2021
Fences August Wilson and Lloyd Richards 02/03/2021

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