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Top 10 Best "African American Culture" Books

#10

African American Foodways

Anne Bower

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Hair Raising

Noliwe M. Rooks

African American Culture

Hair Raising

Exploring the significance of hair in African American culture, this book examines how women have redefined beauty for themselves and used their hair as a symbol of self-confidence and advancement. The author discusses what the various methods of wearing hair mean to family and friends.

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 #9

Battling the Plantation Mentality

Laurie B. Green

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#8

Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

Marcyliena Morgan

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#7

The Birth of African-American Culture

Richard Price
Sidney W. Mintz

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#6

Self-Taught

Heather Andrea Williams

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#5

The African American Experience

Kai Wright

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#4

Chicken Soup for the African American Soul

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Lisa Nichols
Tom Joyner

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#3

Saints in Exile

Cheryl J. Sanders

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#2

Jubilee

Howard Dodson
Amiri Baraka
Gail Lumet Buckley
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Annette Gordon-Reed

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Brother exemplified that it is not only possible
to choose a simple life,
but deeply fulfilling to do so.

~Excerpt from Brother Asaiah
by Martha Ellen Anderson
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African American Food Culture (Food Cultures in America)

William Frank Mitchell

African American Culture
#1

The Hip Hop Generation

Bakari Kitwana

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