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All awards · Topic: Black History & Culture · Sorted by score · 382 books · filtered
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeTiya Miles202142 pts6 wins8 listsRandom HouseHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963Taylor Branch198838 pts4 wins5 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityAmerican Politics+2
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates201536 pts3 wins7 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaKathleen DuVal202534 pts4 wins4 listsRandom HouseHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915Louis R. Harlan197334 pts4 wins4 listsOxford University PressBiographyBlack History & Culture+1
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne, Tamara Payne202134 pts2 wins7 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning Marable201132 pts1 wins7 listsVikingBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
The New Negro: The Life of Alain LockeJeffrey C. Stewart201930 pts4 wins5 listsOxford University PressBiographyLiterary Biography+1
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812Winthrop D. Jordan196828 pts4 wins4 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+3
Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson202026 pts1 wins7 listsRandom HouseRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld198524 pts3 wins3 listsTimes BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryNed Blackhawk202424 pts4 wins5 listsYale University PressHistoryIndigenous History+2
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaIra Berlin200024 pts3 wins5 listsHarvard University PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom Reiss201224 pts2 wins5 listsCrownBiographyBlack History & Culture+1
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
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestWilliam Cronon199222 pts3 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
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
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
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceHanif Abdurraqib202220 pts1 wins4 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-FictionMelissa Fay Greene199120 pts3 wins5 listsSecker & WarburgRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights RevolutionDiane McWhorter200118 pts3 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth CenturyJoya Chatterji202318 pts2 wins3 listsYale University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early AmericaNicole Eustace202218 pts2 wins3 listsLiverightHistorySettler Colonialism+2
Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United StatesCarl N. Degler197118 pts2 wins3 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicitySlavery & Emancipation+2
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
China MenMaxine Hong Kingston197718 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968Taylor Branch200618 pts2 wins5 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryBlack History & Culture+1
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and ResistanceMia Bay202216 pts2 wins3 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams DeferredChanda Prescod-Weinstein202116 pts2 wins3 listsBold Type BooksScienceBlack History & Culture+3
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas Lemann199116 pts3 wins4 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for EqualityRichard Kluger197516 pts2 wins4 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+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
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryDavid W. Blight200214 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Heavy: An American MemoirKiese Laymon201914 pts1 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyBlack History & Culture+2
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. Kendi201614 pts1 wins2 listsNation BooksRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+1
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939Lizabeth Cohen199114 pts1 wins2 listsCambridge University PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+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
Jackson Pollock: An American SagaSteven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith198914 pts1 wins2 listsWoodward/WhiteBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionBernard Bailyn198614 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryIndigenous History+2
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 Flowering of New England: 1815–1865Van Wyck Brooks193614 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryReconstruction+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
Black Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryJoe Jackson201614 pts2 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyIntellectual Biography+1
America, América: A New History of the New WorldGreg Grandin202514 pts0 wins4 listsPenguin PressHistoryLatin America & the Caribbean+3
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a NationGene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff200812 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American RevolutionSimon Schama200512 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Tennyson: The Unquiet HeartRobert Bernard Martin198012 pts3 wins3 listsOxford University PressBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard White201112 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African HistoryGeorge M. Fredrickson198112 pts1 wins3 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityConstitutional History+2
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American SlaverySeth Rockman202512 pts1 wins4 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American FamilyKerri K. Greenidge202312 pts0 wins5 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War EraJacqueline Jones202410 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+2
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black InexpressionTina Post202310 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful RiseSusan L. Shirk202310 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressPolitics & GovernmentAsia & the Pacific+2
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black AmericaMarcia Chatelain202110 pts1 wins1 listsLiverightHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two IslandsHazel V. Carby201910 pts1 wins1 listsVerso BooksMemoir & AutobiographySlavery & Emancipation+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
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementTomiko Brown-Nagin201210 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadKarolyn Smardz Frost200710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryScience & Discovery+3
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
Dwelling Place: A Plantation EpicErskine Clarke200510 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and WhiteHenry Wiencek199910 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+1
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace199810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+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
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiJohn Dittmer199410 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western CultureOrlando Patterson199110 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim CrowNeil R. McMillen199010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900Roger Lane198610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great DepressionAlan Brinkley198210 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2
The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.Murray Kempton197310 pts1 wins1 listsDuttonTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+1
The Denial of DeathErnest Becker197310 pts1 wins1 listsFree PressSociety & CultureBlack History & Culture+2
The Gutenberg GalaxyMarshall McLuhan196210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTechnologyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler,, Steven M. Tipton198510 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureLiterature & Writers+2
How to Survive a Bear AttackClaire Cameron202510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentScience & Discovery+3
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human CommunityWilliam H. McNeill196410 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made ThemEkow Eshun202510 pts1 wins1 listsHarperBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryImani Perry201810 pts2 wins3 listsBeacon PressBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil RightsDylan C. Penningroth202410 pts1 wins3 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our NationLinda Villarosa202210 pts1 wins3 listsDoubledayRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+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
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh201410 pts1 wins4 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonMedicine & Public HealthDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our livesSiddharth Kara202410 pts0 wins3 listsSt. Martin's PressSociety & CultureAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the PresentDavid Treuer202010 pts0 wins3 listsRiverhead BooksHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
The Good SoldiersDavid Finkel20098 pts2 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxWar & MilitaryBlack History & Culture+3
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry ChristopheMarlene L. Daut20258 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, ManhattanDarryl Pinckney20228 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe TrotterKerri K. Greenidge20208 pts1 wins2 listsLiverightBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. Hitchcock20088 pts1 wins2 listsFree PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and WhiteBrent Staples19948 pts1 wins2 listsAvon BooksMemoir & AutobiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of SlaveryHenry Mayer19988 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War IHugh Honour19908 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint LouvertureSudhir Hazareesingh20208 pts0 wins2 listsAllen LaneBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Black Tudors: The Untold StoryMiranda Kaufmann20178 pts0 wins2 listsOneworldHistoryGender & Feminism+2
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious BiasJessica Nordell20218 pts0 wins3 listsMacmillanRace & EthnicityMental Health & Psychology+3
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All awards · Topic: Black History & Culture · Sorted by score · 382 books · filtered