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African American & Black x African American

9 books sit in the overlap between African American & Black and African American.

9 shared books4 shared top picks20% top-pick overlap78% reader overlap
The Black Box coverThe Trouble of Color coverThe Black Woman coverPositive Obsession coverBlack in Blues coverThe Black Book coverHow We Get Free coverThe Matter of Black Lives cover
Black & African American LivesBlack Lit CritAfrican American Literary CollectionsBlack

Shared Shelf

These are the books that appear on both source lists. This is the literal overlap, not a synthetic summary.

  1. The Black Box

    1. The Black Box

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    Appears #1 on African American & Black and #1 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  2. The Trouble of Color

    2. The Trouble of Color

    Martha S. Jones
    Appears #3 on African American & Black and #5 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  3. The Black Woman

    3. The Black Woman

    Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor W Traylor
    Appears #11 on African American & Black and #4 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  4. Positive Obsession

    4. Positive Obsession

    Susana M. Morris
    Appears #7 on African American & Black and #9 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  5. Black in Blues

    5. Black in Blues

    Imani Perry
    Appears #5 on African American & Black and #16 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  6. The Black Book

    6. The Black Book

    Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith
    Appears #6 on African American & Black and #19 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  7. How We Get Free

    7. How We Get Free

    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Smith
    Appears #13 on African American & Black and #13 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  8. The Matter of Black Lives

    8. The Matter of Black Lives

    Jelani Cobb, David Remnick
    Appears #17 on African American & Black and #29 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.
  9. Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

    9. Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey, Bob Blaisdell
    Appears #20 on African American & Black and #38 on African American. Shared themes: Black & African American Lives and Black Lit Crit.

Source Lists

These are the two public lists the crossover comes from.

How It's Told

African American Books

46 picks

African American books gathered from the how it's told shelf as a focused reading list.