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All awards · Topic: Africa & the African Diaspora · Sorted by score · 291 books · filtered
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomDavid W. Blight201846 pts5 wins8 listsSimon & SchusterBiographySlavery & Emancipation+2
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates201536 pts3 wins7 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne, Tamara Payne202134 pts2 wins7 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From RwandaPhilip Gourevitch199832 pts5 wins5 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning Marable201132 pts1 wins7 listsVikingBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson201030 pts5 wins7 listsRandom HouseHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond199824 pts3 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryScience & Discovery+2
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld198524 pts3 wins3 listsTimes BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of SlaveryLeon F. Litwack197924 pts3 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryNed Blackhawk202424 pts4 wins5 listsYale University PressHistoryIndigenous History+2
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great MigrationSteven Hahn200522 pts2 wins3 listsBelknap PressRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+3
Cuba: An American HistoryAda Ferrer202222 pts3 wins4 listsScribnerHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism In Colonial AfricaAdam Hochschild199822 pts3 wins4 listsMariner BooksHistoryBlack History & Culture+1
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963David Levering Lewis199422 pts3 wins4 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz AgeKevin Boyle200422 pts2 wins4 listsHenry Holt and CompanyRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823David Brion Davis197520 pts2 wins2 listsCornell University PressHistoryActivist Biography+2
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and LowcountryPhilip D. Morgan199820 pts3 wins4 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam Hochschild200520 pts2 wins4 listsHoughton MifflinHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceHanif Abdurraqib202220 pts1 wins4 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian RevolutionOrlando Figes199618 pts3 wins3 listsJonathan CapeHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth CenturyJoya Chatterji202318 pts2 wins3 listsYale University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global PoliticsMae Ngai202218 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Negroland: A MemoirMargo Jefferson201518 pts2 wins3 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyCivil Rights & Racial Justice+1
The Problem of Slavery in Western CultureDavid Brion Davis196618 pts2 wins3 listsCornell University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+2
O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative YearsHoward Mumford Jones196418 pts2 wins3 listsVikingHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Utopian Thought in the Western WorldFrank E. Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel198018 pts2 wins3 listsHarvard University PressHistoryConstitutional History+2
Empire of Cotton: A Global HistorySven Beckert200418 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin BooksHistoryFood, Agriculture & Land+2
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945Robert Dallek197918 pts1 wins3 listsOxford University PressHistoryPresidency & Executive Power+2
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and ResistanceMia Bay202216 pts2 wins3 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of EmpireNandini Das202316 pts1 wins3 listsBloomsburyHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to FreedomIlyon Woo202316 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityFamily Biography+2
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815Richard White199116 pts3 wins4 listsCambridge University PressHistoryLatin America & the Caribbean+2
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas Lemann199116 pts3 wins4 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth CenturyCharles King201916 pts2 wins5 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+2
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper TogetherHeather McGhee202116 pts2 wins5 listsProfile BooksRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of RevolutionToby Green201916 pts1 wins5 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+2
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan PeopleElizabeth A. Fenn201414 pts2 wins2 listsHill and WangHistoryIndigenous History+2
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsDiarmaid MacCulloch200914 pts2 wins2 listsAllen LaneReligionReligion & Religious Movements+3
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic WorldStuart B. Schwartz200814 pts2 wins2 listsYale University PressReligionIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About ItPaul Collier200714 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel201114 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860Anne F. Hyde201114 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of Nebraska PressHistoryIndigenous History+2
The Comanche EmpirePekka Hämäläinen200814 pts1 wins3 listsYale University PressHistoryAsia & the Pacific+2
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest ExplorerTim Jeal200714 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of EmancipationDavid Brion Davis200614 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in AmericaShelby Steele199014 pts1 wins2 listsSt. Martin's PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Genet: A BiographyEdmund White198814 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the PresentJacqueline Jones198514 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+2
The Devil and John Foster DullesTownsend Hoopes197314 pts1 wins2 listsLittle, BrownPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American HistoryPaul Horgan195514 pts1 wins2 listsRinehart & CompanyHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New AmericaGilbert King201214 pts1 wins3 listsHarperRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and EmpireSujit Sivasundaram202014 pts1 wins3 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryAsia & the Pacific+2
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of EuropeJudith Herrin201614 pts2 wins4 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
America, América: A New History of the New WorldGreg Grandin202514 pts0 wins4 listsPenguin PressHistoryLatin America & the Caribbean+3
The Search for Modern ChinaJonathan D. Spence199012 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000John Darwin200712 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryEurope & Russia+3
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard White201112 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityGreg Grandin200912 pts0 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American FamilyKerri K. Greenidge202312 pts0 wins5 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black InexpressionTina Post202310 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black AmericaMarcia Chatelain202110 pts1 wins1 listsLiverightHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Fifth Sun: A New History of the AztecsCamilla Townsend202010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global WorldMaya Jasanoff201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressHistoryAsia & the Pacific+2
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American NationhoodDeborah A. Rosen201610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+3
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideCarol Anderson201610 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Black Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby Warrick201510 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962Frank Dikötter201010 pts1 wins1 listsWalker & CompanyHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's GloryLisa Jardine200810 pts1 wins1 listsHarperHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the PresentHarriet A. Washington200610 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationNeal Gabler200610 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaCaroline Elkins200410 pts1 wins1 listsHenry HoltHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora
The New Chinese Empire - And What It Means for the United StatesRoss Terrill200310 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksPolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Reformation: A HistoryDiarmaid MacCulloch200310 pts1 wins1 listsVikingHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to GlobalizationNeil Smith200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressBiographyPresidential Biography+3
Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee200010 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxScienceAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace199810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid YearsRobert Kinloch Massie199710 pts1 wins1 listsNan A. TaleseRace & EthnicityHuman Rights & International Law+2
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was BlackGregory Howard Williams199510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western CultureOrlando Patterson199110 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityPeter Skerry199010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
In Our Image: America's Empire in the PhilippinesStanley Karnow198910 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryLatin America & the Caribbean+2
The Course of EmpireBernard De Voto,195210 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinHistoryAsia & the Pacific+2
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave TradeRobert W. Harms200210 pts2 wins3 listsBasic BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration RouteSally Hayden202210 pts1 wins3 listsMelville HousePolitics & GovernmentAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllMartha S. Jones202110 pts1 wins3 listsBasic BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our livesSiddharth Kara202410 pts0 wins3 listsSt. Martin's PressSociety & CultureAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves.Ira Berlin20038 pts2 wins2 listsBelknap PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryAnthony Grafton19958 pts2 wins2 listsBelknap PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated TwinsBarbara Demick20258 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry ChristopheMarlene L. Daut20258 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Horizons: A Global History of ScienceJames Poskett20238 pts1 wins2 listsVikingHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+3
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe TrotterKerri K. Greenidge20208 pts1 wins2 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the EmpireAndrew O'Shaughnessy20138 pts1 wins3 listsYale University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 ADPeter Brown20128 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressReligionIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and StalinTimothy Snyder20108 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005James T. Campbell20078 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressRace & EthnicityMiddle East & North Africa+2
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and WhiteBrent Staples19948 pts1 wins2 listsAvon BooksMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert Darnton19848 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryNatural History & Animals+2
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves MadeEugene D. Genovese19758 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMiddle East & North Africa+2
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All awards · Topic: Africa & the African Diaspora · Sorted by score · 291 books · filtered