Angela Davis Inspired Reading Challenge - hosted by helenabythebook

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

544 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history informative reflective medium-paced
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Sabrina Strings

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

5 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Cedric J. Robinson

493 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative slow-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

206 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

316 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Mariame Kaba, Zoé Samudzi, William C. Anderson

As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Mariame Kaba, Zoé Samudzi, William C. Anderson

129 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

Louis Chude-Sokei

280 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yusoff

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

Forerunners: Ideas First

Kathryn Yusoff

130 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Howard W. French

512 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative medium-paced