52+ Black Women Non-fiction Authors

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1. Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula Giddings
2. Forbidden Fruit by Betty DeRamus
3. Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
4. Forgotten Readers by Elizabeth McHenry
5. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi Adele André
6. Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf
7. Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
8. Ain’t I A Woman? by Deborah Gray White
9. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller
10. To ’Joy My Freedom Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter
11. Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo-Mccoy
12. Barbara J. Fields
13. Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives by Dana Canedy by Dana Canedy
14. Bettye  Collier-Thomas
15. But Some of us Are Brave by Akasha Gloria Hull
16. Tiya Miles
17. Mary Frances Berry
18. Inner lives by Paula C. Johnson
19. First Class by Alison Stewart
20. Hanging Angelique by Afua Cooper
21. Nell Irvine Painter
22. Bell Hooks
23. Audre Lorde
24. Kellie Jones
25. Terrie Williams
26. Psyche Forson
27. Stealing Snow by Miriam J. Petty
28. Charlotte Hawkins Brown
29. Angela Y. Davis
30. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 by Kali Nicole Gross (I already read Hannah Mary Tabbs and The Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America)
31. Kidada Williams
32. Picture Freedom by Jasmine Nicole Cobb
33. Out of the House of Bondage by Thavolia Glymph
34. Black Ink by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
35. Nazera Wright
36. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
37. Merline Pitre
38. Deborah willis
39. Daina Berry
40. Black Cool by Rebecca Walker
41. Tonya Bolden
42. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
43. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams
44. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
45. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
46. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial by Karla FC Holloway
47. Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, Imani Perry (foreword) [currently reading]
48. Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem by Paula Williams Madison [currently reading]
49. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack [currently reading]
50. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
51. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement by Charlene Carruthers
52. Black Girls Are from the Future by Renina Jarmon
53. Melissa-Harris Perry
54. Patricia Hills Collins
55. Sugar In The Blood by Andrea Stuart
56. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim