아프리카계 미국인

아프리카계 미국인의 목소리와 경험이 회고록, 문화 평론, 역사적 기록, 현대적 관점을 아우르는 이 풍부한 컬렉션의 중심에 자리합니다. 이 강렬한 작품들은 시민권과 사회 정의에서부터 개인적 여정, 학문적 탁월함, 그리고 미국 사회에서의 지속적인 평등 추구에 이르기까지 다양한 주제를 탐구합니다.

아프리카계 미국인 도서 요약

킨드레드

저자: 옥타비아 E. 버틀러 • 1979

A Black woman is ripped through time to save her white ancestor: a slaveholder's son.

4.31

200,000+

⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative ⏳ Time Slip 🏚️ Antebellum South 🔗 Forced Complicity 🎭 Toxic Dependency

킨드레드

A Black woman is ripped through time to save her white ancestor: a slaveholder's son.

저자: 옥타비아 E. 버틀러 1979 288 페이지

4.31

200,000+ 개의 평점

⛓️ Neo-Slave Narrative ⏳ Time Slip 🏚️ Antebellum South 🔗 Forced Complicity 🎭 Toxic Dependency

Dead Wake

저자: Erik Larson • 2015

Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.

4.13

100,000+

🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 💭 Racial Ideology ⚡ Race And Power

Dead Wake

Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.

저자: Erik Larson 2015 430 페이지

4.13

100,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 💭 Racial Ideology ⚡ Race And Power

Civil Rights

저자: Thomas Sowell • 1984

The assumption that unequal outcomes prove discrimination is false, and its policies backfire.

4.40

500+

🧨 Civil Rights Critique 💰 Race And Economics ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate 🌍 Cultural Explanations 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Civil Rights

The assumption that unequal outcomes prove discrimination is false, and its policies backfire.

저자: Thomas Sowell 1984 164 페이지

4.40

500+ 개의 평점

🧨 Civil Rights Critique 💰 Race And Economics ⚖️ Affirmative Action Debate 🌍 Cultural Explanations 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

저자: Christopher Paul Curtis • 1995

A Black family drives to Birmingham, 1963, to tame their wild son. The South has other plans.

4.01

71,000+

🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🚗 Family Road Trip 🇺🇸 1960s America 🎭 Tragicomic 👵 Strict Grandmother

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

A Black family drives to Birmingham, 1963, to tame their wild son. The South has other plans.

저자: Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 224 페이지

4.01

71,000+ 개의 평점

🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🚗 Family Road Trip 🇺🇸 1960s America 🎭 Tragicomic 👵 Strict Grandmother

Parable of the Sower

저자: Damian Duffy • 2020

A hyper-empathic teen forges a new faith while leading survivors across a burning, dying America.

3.97

5,000+

🏚️ Dystopian Survival 🤝 Found Family 🛣️ Road Journey 🏘️ Community Building 🌍 Climate Collapse

Parable of the Sower

A hyper-empathic teen forges a new faith while leading survivors across a burning, dying America.

저자: Damian Duffy 2020 266 페이지

3.97

5,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Dystopian Survival 🤝 Found Family 🛣️ Road Journey 🏘️ Community Building 🌍 Climate Collapse

The Light We Carry

저자: Michelle Obama • 2022

When the world feels too big, shrink it: resilience lessons from a former First Lady.

4.27

99,000+

📖 Political Memoirs 🌱 Everyday Resilience 💛 Vulnerability 👥 Adult Friendships 💎 Self Worth

The Light We Carry

When the world feels too big, shrink it: resilience lessons from a former First Lady.

저자: Michelle Obama 2022 319 페이지

4.27

99,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Political Memoirs 🌱 Everyday Resilience 💛 Vulnerability 👥 Adult Friendships 💎 Self Worth

Woke Racism

저자: John McWhorter • 2021

Today's antiracism is a secular faith, and it is failing the people it claims to save

3.92

6,000+

🛑 Antiracism Critique ⚔️ Culture Wars 😢 Victimhood Culture 🤐 Political Correctness 🖤 Heterodox Black Thought

Woke Racism

Today's antiracism is a secular faith, and it is failing the people it claims to save

저자: John McWhorter 2021 220 페이지

3.92

6,000+ 개의 평점

🛑 Antiracism Critique ⚔️ Culture Wars 😢 Victimhood Culture 🤐 Political Correctness 🖤 Heterodox Black Thought

Take My Hand

저자: Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2022

A Black nurse in 1970s Alabama discovers her clinic is sterilizing the young sisters she serves.

4.36

100,000+

⚖️ Reproductive Injustice 🩺 Medical Racism 🌾 Rural South 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Devotion 🫂 Found Family

Take My Hand

A Black nurse in 1970s Alabama discovers her clinic is sterilizing the young sisters she serves.

저자: Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2022 368 페이지

4.36

100,000+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Reproductive Injustice 🩺 Medical Racism 🌾 Rural South 👯‍♀️ Sisterly Devotion 🫂 Found Family

웰레드 블랙 걸

저자: 글로리 에딤 • 2018

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

4.36

6,000+

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity 📚 African American Literature ✍🏿 Writing As Resistance

웰레드 블랙 걸

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

저자: 글로리 에딤 2018 201 페이지

4.36

6,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity 📚 African American Literature ✍🏿 Writing As Resistance

It Worked for Me

저자: Colin Powell • 2012

A general's leadership code: own every failure, earn trust daily, fix problems before they spread.

4.09

7,000+

🪖 Military Leadership 🤲 Servant Leadership 🧾 Accountability Culture 🌱 Mentoring And Development 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

It Worked for Me

A general's leadership code: own every failure, earn trust daily, fix problems before they spread.

저자: Colin Powell 2012 304 페이지

4.09

7,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Military Leadership 🤲 Servant Leadership 🧾 Accountability Culture 🌱 Mentoring And Development 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

Out of Darkness

저자: Ashley Hope Pérez • 2016

1937 Texas: a Mexican American girl, a Black boy, and a love their town wants dead.

4.14

8,000+

💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📜 Depression Era 🌊 Lyrical Tragedy

Out of Darkness

1937 Texas: a Mexican American girl, a Black boy, and a love their town wants dead.

저자: Ashley Hope Pérez 2016 402 페이지

4.14

8,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📜 Depression Era 🌊 Lyrical Tragedy

The Grift

저자: Clay Cane • 2024

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

4.32

500+

🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

The Grift

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

저자: Clay Cane 2024 400 페이지

4.32

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

Rosa Parks

저자: Rosa Parks • 1948

A lifetime of slights, one refusal: Rosa Parks tells the story behind the bus seat.

4.19

2,000+

✊🏽 Civil Rights Movement 🚫 Jim Crow South 📖 Activist Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Rosa Parks

A lifetime of slights, one refusal: Rosa Parks tells the story behind the bus seat.

저자: Rosa Parks 1948 188 페이지

4.19

2,000+ 개의 평점

✊🏽 Civil Rights Movement 🚫 Jim Crow South 📖 Activist Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

In Search of Sisterhood

저자: Paula J. Giddings • 1988

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

4.54

429

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

In Search of Sisterhood

Before it was two months old, this Black sorority was marching on Washington for women's votes.

저자: Paula J. Giddings 1988 336 페이지

4.54

429 개의 평점

🏛️ Black Sororities 📜 Black Women's History 👥 Black Women's Clubs 🕊️ Racial Uplift ✊ Civil Rights Organizing

You Are Your Best Thing

저자: Tarana Burke • 2021

Shame, vulnerability, and resilience, reframed by Black voices who live the extra weight of racism.

4.51

7,000+

🛡️ Shame Resilience ✊🏾 Black Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma ⛓️‍💥 Systemic Racism 🖤 Black Feminism

You Are Your Best Thing

Shame, vulnerability, and resilience, reframed by Black voices who live the extra weight of racism.

저자: Tarana Burke 2021 6 페이지

4.51

7,000+ 개의 평점

🛡️ Shame Resilience ✊🏾 Black Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma ⛓️‍💥 Systemic Racism 🖤 Black Feminism

Between the World and Me

저자: Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2015

America's myth of innocence is built on Black bodies. A father writes his son.

4.40

300,000+

🧱 Systemic Racism 🩸 Racial Violence 🛑 Police Brutality 👨🏾‍🦱 Black Fatherhood 📚 Black Intellectual Tradition

Between the World and Me

America's myth of innocence is built on Black bodies. A father writes his son.

저자: Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 152 페이지

4.40

300,000+ 개의 평점

🧱 Systemic Racism 🩸 Racial Violence 🛑 Police Brutality 👨🏾‍🦱 Black Fatherhood 📚 Black Intellectual Tradition

Four Hundred Souls

저자: Ibram X. Kendi • 2021

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

4.55

11,000+

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism ✊ Black Resistance 📖 Revisionist History

Four Hundred Souls

Eighty writers tell 400 years of African American history, starting where the textbooks go silent.

저자: Ibram X. Kendi 2021 504 페이지

4.55

11,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 African American History ⛓️ Transatlantic Slave Trade 🔍 Systemic Racism ✊ Black Resistance 📖 Revisionist History

Harlem Rhapsody

저자: Victoria Christopher Murray • 2025

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

4.06

10,000+

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem ⚖️ Mentor Affair 💼 Ambition And Sacrifice

Harlem Rhapsody

She built the Harlem Renaissance from the shadows. Her secret lover was its powerful married leader.

저자: Victoria Christopher Murray 2025 400 페이지

4.06

10,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Harlem Renaissance 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎺 Jazz Age Harlem ⚖️ Mentor Affair 💼 Ambition And Sacrifice

Dreams from My Father

저자: Barack Obama • 2008

Across continents, a mixed-race man hunts an absent father and the shape of his own identity.

4.04

500+

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏛️ Political Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing 🌍 Post-Colonial Africa 💔 Absent Fathers

Dreams from My Father

Across continents, a mixed-race man hunts an absent father and the shape of his own identity.

저자: Barack Obama 2008

4.04

500+ 개의 평점

🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏛️ Political Memoirs 🤝 Community Organizing 🌍 Post-Colonial Africa 💔 Absent Fathers

퍼스널 라이브러리언

저자: 마리 베네딕트 • 2021

A Black woman passing as white builds J.P. Morgan's legendary library, one secret away from ruin.

4.05

200,000+

📖 Biographical Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age 🎭 Passing As White 📚 Rare Books 💔 Forbidden Love

퍼스널 라이브러리언

A Black woman passing as white builds J.P. Morgan's legendary library, one secret away from ruin.

저자: 마리 베네딕트 2021 341 페이지

4.05

200,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Biographical Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age 🎭 Passing As White 📚 Rare Books 💔 Forbidden Love

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing

저자: David Greene • 2017

A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.

4.22

1,000+

⛓️ Slave Narratives 🏛️ Antebellum America 🛡️ Resistance Under Oppression 💔 Family Separation ✍️ Abolitionist Literature

Long-Distance Real Estate Investing

A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.

저자: David Greene 2017 395 페이지

4.22

1,000+ 개의 평점

⛓️ Slave Narratives 🏛️ Antebellum America 🛡️ Resistance Under Oppression 💔 Family Separation ✍️ Abolitionist Literature

Scorpions

저자: Walter Dean Myers • 1995

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

3.8

2,000+

🏙️ Gritty Young Adult 🔫 Gang Life 💔 Tragic Friendship 🏚️ Inner City 🌧️ Childhood Lost

Scorpions

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

저자: Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 페이지

3.8

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Gritty Young Adult 🔫 Gang Life 💔 Tragic Friendship 🏚️ Inner City 🌧️ Childhood Lost

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

저자: Lilith Dorsey • 2020

Oshún, Yemaya, Oya: meet the divine women at the heart of Africa's diaspora religions.

4.13

500+

🕯️ African Diaspora Religions 🔮 Orisha Traditions 🌸 Divine Feminine 🛕 Goddess Worship 💀 Vodou And Santeria

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens

Oshún, Yemaya, Oya: meet the divine women at the heart of Africa's diaspora religions.

저자: Lilith Dorsey 2020 240 페이지

4.13

500+ 개의 평점

🕯️ African Diaspora Religions 🔮 Orisha Traditions 🌸 Divine Feminine 🛕 Goddess Worship 💀 Vodou And Santeria

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

저자: August Wilson • 1984

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

4.00

4,000+

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio 🎭 Artistic Integrity ✊🏿 Racial Exploitation

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.

저자: August Wilson 1984 111 페이지

4.00

4,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Jazz Age 🎵 Blues Music 🎙️ Recording Studio 🎭 Artistic Integrity ✊🏿 Racial Exploitation

Straight Shooter

저자: Stephen A. Smith • 2023

Fired by ESPN. Dyslexic. A Queens kid's improbable rise to the top of sports television.

4.12

3,000+

🎙️ Sports Broadcasting 📺 Media Careers 📝 Sports Journalism 🔄 Career Comebacks 🚀 Self-Made Success

Straight Shooter

Fired by ESPN. Dyslexic. A Queens kid's improbable rise to the top of sports television.

저자: Stephen A. Smith 2023 288 페이지

4.12

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎙️ Sports Broadcasting 📺 Media Careers 📝 Sports Journalism 🔄 Career Comebacks 🚀 Self-Made Success

Money Hungry

저자: Sharon G. Flake • 2001

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

4.10

4,000+

🪙 Childhood Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity 😰 Financial Anxiety 🍬 Kid Entrepreneur 🏙️ Urban Middle Grade

Money Hungry

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

저자: Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 페이지

4.10

4,000+ 개의 평점

🪙 Childhood Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity 😰 Financial Anxiety 🍬 Kid Entrepreneur 🏙️ Urban Middle Grade

오바마 부부

저자: 조디 캔터 • 2011

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

3.69

2,000+

🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

오바마 부부

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

저자: 조디 캔터 2011

3.69

2,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

저자: Maya Angelou • 1993

Maya Angelou on dignity: short lessons from a life built from nothing.

4.30

11,000+

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir 📜 Wisdom Literature 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 💝 Self-Acceptance 🍂 Midlife Reflection

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Maya Angelou on dignity: short lessons from a life built from nothing.

저자: Maya Angelou 1993 144 페이지

4.30

11,000+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Spiritual Memoir 📜 Wisdom Literature 👩🏿 Black Womanhood 💝 Self-Acceptance 🍂 Midlife Reflection

Mirror Girls

저자: Kelly McWilliams • 2022

Biracial twins raised apart reunite in Georgia to break a curse that stole one sister's reflection.

3.95

3,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌾 Jim Crow South 👯 Separated Twins 🎭 Passing As White 👻 Ancestral Ghosts

Mirror Girls

Biracial twins raised apart reunite in Georgia to break a curse that stole one sister's reflection.

저자: Kelly McWilliams 2022 320 페이지

3.95

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌾 Jim Crow South 👯 Separated Twins 🎭 Passing As White 👻 Ancestral Ghosts

아메리칸 매리지

저자: 타야리 존스 • 2018

She promised to wait. She wrote him letters. Then she fell for her oldest friend.

3.93

300,000+

📚 Book Club Fiction ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 💔 Love Triangle ✉️ Epistolary Elements 💍 Marriage In Crisis

아메리칸 매리지

She promised to wait. She wrote him letters. Then she fell for her oldest friend.

저자: 타야리 존스 2018 308 페이지

3.93

300,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Book Club Fiction ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 💔 Love Triangle ✉️ Epistolary Elements 💍 Marriage In Crisis

그들의 눈은 신을 보고 있었다

저자: 조라 닐 허스턴 • 1937

She returned to town in overalls, the story of three husbands and a hurricane inside her.

3.99

300,000+

👩🏿 Black Women's Journeys 💔 Tragic Love Story 🔗 Oppressive Marriage 🌸 Sensual Awakening 🌿 Everglades Life

그들의 눈은 신을 보고 있었다

She returned to town in overalls, the story of three husbands and a hurricane inside her.

저자: 조라 닐 허스턴 1937 238 페이지

3.99

300,000+ 개의 평점

👩🏿 Black Women's Journeys 💔 Tragic Love Story 🔗 Oppressive Marriage 🌸 Sensual Awakening 🌿 Everglades Life

Twelve Years a Slave

저자: Solomon Northup • 2013

Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.

4.23

100,000+

🎋 American Slavery ⛓️ Slave Narratives 📜 Abolitionist Literature 🕯️ Survival Under Bondage 🩸 Plantation Brutality

Twelve Years a Slave

Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.

저자: Solomon Northup 2013 363 페이지

4.23

100,000+ 개의 평점

🎋 American Slavery ⛓️ Slave Narratives 📜 Abolitionist Literature 🕯️ Survival Under Bondage 🩸 Plantation Brutality

The Autistic Brain

저자: Temple Grandin • 2013

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

4.1

11,000+

🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

The Autistic Brain

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

저자: Temple Grandin 2013 240 페이지

4.1

11,000+ 개의 평점

🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

버락과 난관 사이에서

저자: 팀 와이즈 • 2009

Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.

4.14

500+

🧱 Structural Racism ⚪ White Privilege 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Colorblind Ideology 🙈 White Denial

버락과 난관 사이에서

Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.

저자: 팀 와이즈 2009 159 페이지

4.14

500+ 개의 평점

🧱 Structural Racism ⚪ White Privilege 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Colorblind Ideology 🙈 White Denial

Thick

저자: Tressie McMillan Cottom • 2019

Black women are punished for complexity, so embracing every contradiction becomes its own rebellion.

4.43

18,000+

✊🏿 Black Feminist Thought ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 💄 Beauty As Capital 🏥 Healthcare Disparities 🎩 Respectability Politics

Thick

Black women are punished for complexity, so embracing every contradiction becomes its own rebellion.

저자: Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 248 페이지

4.43

18,000+ 개의 평점

✊🏿 Black Feminist Thought ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 💄 Beauty As Capital 🏥 Healthcare Disparities 🎩 Respectability Politics

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

저자: Crystal Smith Paul • 2023

Three celebrity sisters inherit a film legend's fortune. The hunt for why rewrites their history.

3.74

74,000+

🎭 Racial Passing 🎬 Old Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 💰 Inheritance Mystery

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Three celebrity sisters inherit a film legend's fortune. The hunt for why rewrites their history.

저자: Crystal Smith Paul 2023 416 페이지

3.74

74,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Racial Passing 🎬 Old Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 💰 Inheritance Mystery

Showboat

저자: Roland Lazenby • 2016

Two selves fought inside Kobe Bryant: the showman his father wanted, the killer his mother forged.

4.30

2,000+

🏀 Sports Biography 👨‍👩‍👦 Parental Influence 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🔥 Obsession And Sacrifice 🔄 Self Reinvention

Showboat

Two selves fought inside Kobe Bryant: the showman his father wanted, the killer his mother forged.

저자: Roland Lazenby 2016 625 페이지

4.30

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏀 Sports Biography 👨‍👩‍👦 Parental Influence 🌟 Celebrity Culture 🔥 Obsession And Sacrifice 🔄 Self Reinvention

My Bondage and My Freedom

저자: Frederick Douglass • 1855

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

4.38

12,000+

🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

My Bondage and My Freedom

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

저자: Frederick Douglass 1855 432 페이지

4.38

12,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

Value in the Valley

저자: Iylanla Vanzant • 1995

Hard seasons are not punishment but curriculum. For Black women navigating the valley.

4.44

500+

🌿 Spiritual Self-Help 🌱 Adversity As Teacher 🚧 Emotional Boundaries 💜 Forgiveness Practice ✨ Womanist Spirituality

Value in the Valley

Hard seasons are not punishment but curriculum. For Black women navigating the valley.

저자: Iylanla Vanzant 1995 320 페이지

4.44

500+ 개의 평점

🌿 Spiritual Self-Help 🌱 Adversity As Teacher 🚧 Emotional Boundaries 💜 Forgiveness Practice ✨ Womanist Spirituality

A Quantum Life

저자: Hakeem Oluseyi • 2021

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

4.48

500+

🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

A Quantum Life

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

저자: Hakeem Oluseyi 2021 356 페이지

4.48

500+ 개의 평점

🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

『컬러 퍼플』을 찾아서

저자: 살라미샤 틸렛 • 2021

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

4.21

220

📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

『컬러 퍼플』을 찾아서

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

저자: 살라미샤 틸렛 2021 223 페이지

4.21

220 개의 평점

📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

Pryor Convictions

저자: Richard Pryor • 1995

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

4.05

1,000+

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Pryor Convictions

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

저자: Richard Pryor 1995 261 페이지

4.05

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Happy Land

저자: Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2025

Summoned home, a real estate agent discovers the lost Black kingdom buried in her family's land.

4.24

11,000+

🏚️ Reconstruction-Era South 🌱 Family Land 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👩‍👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🔍 Family Secrets

Happy Land

Summoned home, a real estate agent discovers the lost Black kingdom buried in her family's land.

저자: Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 368 페이지

4.24

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Reconstruction-Era South 🌱 Family Land 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👩‍👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🔍 Family Secrets

Will

저자: Will Smith • 2021

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

4.24

75,000+

📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

Will

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

저자: Will Smith 2021 418 페이지

4.24

75,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

The Beautiful Struggle

저자: Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

4.08

11,000+

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

The Beautiful Struggle

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

저자: Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 페이지

4.08

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

After the Rain

저자: Alexandra Elle • 2020

A soft-spoken guide to repairing your relationship with yourself, one honest breath at a time.

4.17

3,000+

🌿 Gentle Self-Help 🩹 Healing Journey 💗 Self-Compassion 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🌬️ Breathwork

After the Rain

A soft-spoken guide to repairing your relationship with yourself, one honest breath at a time.

저자: Alexandra Elle 2020 208 페이지

4.17

3,000+ 개의 평점

🌿 Gentle Self-Help 🩹 Healing Journey 💗 Self-Compassion 🧒 Inner Child Healing 🌬️ Breathwork

6월의 7일

저자: 티아 윌리엄스 • 2021

A romance novelist faces her first love, now a reclusive literary star, at a Brooklyn panel.

3.98

200,000+

🕰️ Second Chance Romance ✍️ Writers In Love 👩‍👧 Single Mother 💞 Childhood Sweethearts ⏳ Dual Timeline

6월의 7일

A romance novelist faces her first love, now a reclusive literary star, at a Brooklyn panel.

저자: 티아 윌리엄스 2021 336 페이지

3.98

200,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Second Chance Romance ✍️ Writers In Love 👩‍👧 Single Mother 💞 Childhood Sweethearts ⏳ Dual Timeline

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

저자: Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

4.07

1,000+

🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

저자: Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 페이지

4.07

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

The Mis-Education of the Negro

저자: Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

4.49

10,000+

🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

The Mis-Education of the Negro

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

저자: Carter G. Woodson 1933 162 페이지

4.49

10,000+ 개의 평점

🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

Unapologetically Ambitious

저자: Shellye Archambeau • 2020

Become CEO by treating your career as a strategic campaign: a playbook from someone who did.

4.05

2,000+

🎯 Career Strategy 👩‍💼 Women In Business 🤝 Mentorship 🎭 Impostor Syndrome ⚖️ Work Life Integration

Unapologetically Ambitious

Become CEO by treating your career as a strategic campaign: a playbook from someone who did.

저자: Shellye Archambeau 2020 289 페이지

4.05

2,000+ 개의 평점

🎯 Career Strategy 👩‍💼 Women In Business 🤝 Mentorship 🎭 Impostor Syndrome ⚖️ Work Life Integration

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