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Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

Selected Poems

Gwendolyn Brooks

127 pages • 1963 • 6 editions

nonfiction poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Singing Through Struggle: Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches by Carolynne Hitter Brown
Singing Through Struggle: Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches
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Carolynne Hitter Brown

Singing Through Struggle: Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches

Carolynne Hitter Brown

208 pages • 1 edition

Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose
Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
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Phyllis Rose

Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time

Phyllis Rose

321 pages • 1989 • 3 editions

nonfiction biography history music challenging informative slow-paced
Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf by Barry Singer

Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf

Barry Singer

444 pages • 1993 • 1 edition

nonfiction biography sad medium-paced
Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by CORETTA M. PITTMAN

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

CORETTA M. PITTMAN

224 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction history
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis

W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

David Levering Lewis

735 pages • 1993 • 3 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation by Mat Callahan
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
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Mat Callahan

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan

234 pages • 1 edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Underground Railroad by William Still

The Underground Railroad

William Still

400 pages • 1872 • 21 editions

user-added

nonfiction history
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

448 pages • 2000 • 107 editions

fiction contemporary literary funny reflective slow-paced
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

560 pages • 1988 • 109 editions

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
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

410 pages • 2021 • 7 editions

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

291 pages • 1996 • 37 editions

nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective slow-paced
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison

192 pages • 2020 • 4 editions

nonfiction literary memoir politics race challenging reflective medium-paced
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

304 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

nonfiction history politics religion informative reflective medium-paced
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr.

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Vine Deloria Jr.

272 pages • 1969 • 7 editions

user-added

nonfiction biography history politics race
Great Speeches on Gay Rights by

Great Speeches on Gay Rights

150 pages • 1 edition

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

306 pages • 2016 • 122 editions

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Human Acts by Han Kang

Human Acts

Han Kang

218 pages • 2014 • 95 editions

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes

The Langston Hughes Reader

Langston Hughes

512 pages • 1958 • 1 edition

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935 by Derek Vaillant

Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935

Derek Vaillant

416 pages • 2 editions

nonfiction history music informative reflective medium-paced