The Best Books: Black Identity
A LOT of you liked my list of postcolonial theory books last week, so I thought I would continue with other recommended reads. I am a bibliophile and have read thousands of books in my life so far, so I have many thoughts on many books.
I can pump out booklists for days!
But for now, here is a booklist about black identity. All of these books have had a profound effect on how I understand myself as a black person in America.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Soul on Ice by Elderidge Cleaver
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Goodwin Woodson
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B Wells
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Letters from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr