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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
by Patricia Hill Collins
"In the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes. A new discussion of heterosexism as a system of power, an expanded treatment of images of Black womanhood, U.S. Black feminism's connections to Black Diasporic feminisms, and more attention to the importance of social class and nationalism all appear in the new edition."
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Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
"Frantz Fanon's work is an excellent insight of how people of color throughout the world have been effected by colonization. A must read for anyone trying to understand the basics about living in the western world as a person of color."
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Alienable Rights
by Francis D. Adams & Barry Sanders
"Adams and Sanders trace what they see as the 'continuous arc of animosity' between blacks and whites in the United States, contextualizing and shedding light on the racism that that they find persists in the 'dark recesses of the nation's heart.'"
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Freedom on My Mind
by Manning Marable, John McMillian, & Nishani Frazier
"Freedom on My Mind reveals the richly diverse and complex experience of black people in America in their own words, from the Colonial era of Benjamin Banneker to the present world of Kweisi Mfume and Clarence Thomas."
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