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Pauline Hopkins
Contending Forces
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Nella Larsen
Passing
Quicksand
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Zora Neale Hurston
"Sweat"
Their Eyes were Watching God
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Gwendolyn Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville
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Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
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Alice Childress
Wine in the Wilderness
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Toni Morrison
Beloved
Sula
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Gloria Naylor
Mama Day
Women of Brewster Place
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Andrea Lee
Sarah Phillips
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Sonia Sanchez
Homegirls and Handgrenades
Shake Loose My Skin
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Alice Walker
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
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Nikki Giovanni
Black Feeling Black Talk
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Lucille Clifton
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Tina McElroy Ansa
The Hand I Fan With
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Buchi Emecheta
Second Class Citizen
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Terry McMillan
Mama
Disappearing Acts
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Edwidge Danticat
Breath Eyes Memory
Krik Krak
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Suzan Lori-Parks
Venus
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Zadie Smith
On Beauty
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
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Nzadi Keita
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass
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Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing
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Morgan Parker
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
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Patrice Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
When they call you a terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
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