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100 Essential Black Books

(QBR: The Black Book Review)



Roots
by Alex Haley

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Call Number:
E185.97 .H24 A33
Publication Date:
1977




The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

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Call Number:
PS3573.A425 C6




Blues People: Negro Music in White America
by Amiri Baraka

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Call Number:
ML3556 .J73




The Life of Langston Hughes
by Arnold Rampersad

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Call Number:
PS3515.U274 Z698 & ONLINE




Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde

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Call Number:
PS3562.O75 S5




Fences
by August Wilson

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Call Number:
PS3573.I45677 F4 1986 (North)
Publication Date:
1987




Sally Hemings: A Novel
by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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Call Number:
HISTORICAL FICTION CHA
Publication Date:
1979




Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
by Bobby Seale

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Call Number:
E185.615 .S37 1991




Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington

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Call Number:
E185.97 .W4 A3 OR
Publication Date:
1901




The Black Jacobins: Toussaint LOuverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by C.L.R. James

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Call Number:
F1923 .T85




Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson

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Call Number:
LC2717 .W6 2000




If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

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Call Number:
PS3515.I713 I3 2002




Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe

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Call Number:
Leisure - Multicultural ACH OR PR9387.9.A3 T5




Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown

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Call Number:
E185.97.B86 A3 1999




Race Matters
by Cornel West

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Call Number:
E185.615 .W43 2001




David Walkers Appeal
by David Walker

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Call Number:
E446 .W178




Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver

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Call Number:
E185.97 .C6 1999




A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines

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Call Number:
PS3557.A355 L47 1993




The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest Gaines

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Call Number:
PS3557.A355 A8




The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon

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Call Number:
DT33 .F313




Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself
by Frederick Douglass

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Call Number:
E449 .D749
Publication Date:
1845




Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by George Jackson

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Call Number:
HV9468 .J3 & Online




Annie Allen
by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Call Number:
PS3503.R7244 A7 1971




Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Call Number:
PS3503.R7244 M3 1993




Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America
by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen

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Call Number:
PS508.N3 B745 1996




Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Black Women
by Iyanla Vanzant

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Call Number:
E185.86 .V365 2008
Publication Date:
1988




Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin

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Call Number:
PS3552.A45 G6 1981




The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin

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Call Number:
E185.61 .B1954
Publication Date:
1963




Cane
by Jean Toomer

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Call Number:
PS3539.O478




The Man Who Cried I Am
by John A. Williams

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Call Number:
PS3573.I4495 M3




Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

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Call Number:
E185.615 .C32 1992
Publication Date:
1967




The Ways of White Folks: Stories
by Langston Hughes

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Call Number:
PS3515.U274 W38




A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry

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Call Number:
PS3515.A515 R3 1995




The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

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Call Number:
BP223.Z8 L57943
Publication Date:
1965




I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

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Call Number:
PS3551 .N464 Z466 2002
Publication Date:
1969




Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
by Michele Wallace

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Call Number:
E185.86 .W34
Publication Date:
1978




Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter

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Call Number:
E185.97.T8 P35




For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange

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Call Number:
PS3569.H3324 F6 1997




Kindred
by Octavia Butler

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Call Number:
PS3552.U827 K5 2003




The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano

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Call Number:
HT869 .E6 A3 2013
Publication Date:
1789




Praisesong For The Widow
by Paule Marshall

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Call Number:
PS3563.A7223 P7 1983




Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

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Call Number:
PS3555.L625 I5 1994
Publication Date:
1952




Black Boy
by Richard Wright

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Call Number:
PS3545 .R815 Z9
Publication Date:
1945




Native Son
by Richard Wright

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Call Number:
PS3545 .R815 N25




Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton

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Call Number:
F548.9 .N4 D73 1993
Publication Date:
1945




Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan

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Call Number:
Leisure Multicultural MCM OR PS3563.C3868 W35




Beloved
by Toni Morrison

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Call Number:
PS3563.O8749 B4




Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison

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Call Number:
PS3563 .O8749 S66 1995




Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880
by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Call Number:
E668 .D83




The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Call Number:
E185.5 .D817 2003 & Online
Publication Date:
1903




Clotel: Or, The Presidents Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
by William Wells Brown

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Call Number:
PS1139 .B9 A6 2014
Publication Date:
1853






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All of these titles are compiled in the book Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books, which was published by QBR: The Black Book Review magazine in 1999.

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