QBR 100 Essential Black Books

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The 100 essential books by and about people of African descent that have had the most influence, consequence, and resonance on American life.

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    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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    Two Thousand Seasons
    by Ayi Kwei Armah

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    Go Tell It On The Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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    The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin

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    Blessed Are the Peacemakers
    by Bass, S. Johnathan

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    Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
    by Lerone Bennett

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    The Chaneysville Incident
    by David Bradley

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    Annie Allen
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

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    Maud Martha
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

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    Spirits of the Passage

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    Kindred

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    Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

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    Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
    by Charles V. Hamilton

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    Sally Hemings: A Novel
    by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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    The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
    by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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    Soul on Ice
    by Eldridge Cleaver

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    A Black Theology of Liberation (Ethics and Society)
    by James H. Cone

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    Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
    by Stanley Crouch

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    Krik? Krak!

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    Miles

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    Destruction of Black Civilization

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    Narrative Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

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    Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
    by St. Clair Drake

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    Lyrics Of Lowly Life
    by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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    Guide My Feet

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    Kehinde
    by Buchi Emecheta

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    The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon

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    Black Skin, White Masks

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    Black Bourgeoisie

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    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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    The Spook Who Sat By the Door
    by Sam Greenlee

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  38. 43.
    Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    by Alex Haley

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  39. 44.
    A Raisin in the Sun (Vintage)
    by Lorraine Hansberry

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    If He Hollers Let Him Go

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    The Ways of White Folks

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Soledad Brother

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    Stolen Legacy

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Created by gcrear on Dec 07, 2008.
 

Comments

Yikes! — 49 weeks ago

Somehow I missed four! I’ll add them as soon as I figure out which four I ommitted.