African American


New Releases Tagged "African American"

Dream Count
The Love Simulation
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Listen to Your Sister
Junie
Needy Little Things
Harlem Rhapsody
The Love Lyric (The Greene Sisters, #3)
People of Means
Losing Sight
James
The Vanishing Half
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Good Dirt
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel―The Untold Story of Hattie McDaniel's Life and Legacy
Finding Me
Horse
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
The Personal Librarian
Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
The House of Eve
This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)
The Message
All the Sinners Bleed
Black Cake
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerBeloved by Toni MorrisonTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Best Multi-Ethnic American Literature
296 books — 141 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Books by Black Authors
903 books — 362 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Best African American Books
902 books — 1,129 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,068 books — 2,442 voters

The Color Purple
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
The Bluest Eye
Between the World and Me
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Invisible Man
The Hate U Give
The Help
Song of Solomon
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Vanishing Half
Sula

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I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who, to climb the social ladder, resist being categorized, by white people, with African Americans. Some even go so far as to claim superiority. This is not surprising. In America, the racial hierarchy has white at the top and black on the bottom. *We're not that kind of black,* I have heard a member of my own family--an uncle-- argue when a white person levele ...more
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