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Every resource in the archive — aggregated and cited for further study.

16 resources

Book· 1987
Beloved
Toni Morrison

Pulitzer-winning novel of slavery and memory.

Book· 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

America's racial order analyzed as a caste system.

Book· 1998
Dark Alliance
Gary Webb

The book-length investigation into the CIA, the Contras, and crack.

Book· 1952
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison

National Book Award-winning novel of Black identity in America.

Book· 2008
Slavery by Another Name
Douglas A. Blackmon

Pulitzer-winning history of convict leasing and re-enslavement after the Civil War.

Book· 1999
Soul by Soul
Walter Johnson

Life inside the antebellum slave market.

Book· 2016
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi

A National Book Award history of racist ideas in America.

Book· 2019
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed.

Reframing US history around the consequences of slavery.

Book· 1965
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X & Alex Haley

One of the most influential memoirs of the 20th century.

Book· 1963
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin

Baldwin's searing essays on race in America.

Book· 2014
The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward E. Baptist

Slavery and the making of American capitalism.

Book· 1937
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

A landmark of the Harlem Renaissance.

Book· 2010
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander

Mass incarceration as a system of racial control.

Book· 1903· Primary
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois

Foundational essays on race and "double consciousness."

Book· 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

The definitive narrative history of the Great Migration.

Book· 1901· Primary
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington

Washington's influential and contested autobiography.