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purplegemini's "African American Books I Want to Read"

The books that were written by and for blacks in America. These books are the definitive of our culture.
1. Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction)
by Maya Angelou
  
2. Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by Greg Tate
  
3. The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
  
4. The miseducation of the Negro
by Carter Godwin Woodson
  
5. The Color Complex
by Kathy Russell
  
6. Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation: The Case for Cooperation (Critical America)
by Bill Piatt
  
7.
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 Mama  
8. Beneath the Skin of Black Folks
by Tracy Andrus
  
9. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
10. Native Son
by Richard Wright
  
11. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
12.
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 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Alex; Handler, M. S. Malcom X; Haley
  
13.
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 The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
  
14.
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 Paradise-Toni Morrison  
15. Sula
by Toni Morrison
  
16. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
17. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
18.
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 BLACK BOY
by Richard Wright
  
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
20. A Day Late and a Dollar Short
by Terry McMillan
  
21. Race Matters
by Cornel West
  
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Created by purplegemini on Dec 03, 2006.