Black History

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7 participants (20 books)

Overview

This challenge focuses on US based Black history. The starting list of 20 books is drawn from a Cosmopolitan article, but I will likely add other books. This is an ongoing challenge, feel free to take your time.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/g42423939/black-history-books/

Challenge Books

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones

How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

Kimberly Jones