Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2010s

Writing Published during the 2010s Decade (2010 - 2019) by African-Americans. This includes essays and books on grammar, journalism, and language. No self-published. Non-fiction only. Adult only. No self-published.

No books on sexuality, feminism, immigration, pan-Africanism, poc solidarity, or intersectionality.

No books that are anti-civil rights (affirmative action and voting rights) or anti-reparations (cash payments, land, a federal bank, a federal department, and a black ethnostate (look it up!) directly or indirectly).

The black community is NOT synonymous with preventable diseases, mental disorders, physical/mental disabilities, cross-dressing, sexual perversion, promiscuity, hyper sexuality, trauma, misery, woe, crime, vulgarity, violence, vice, or sin. Any book that claims the black community is synonymous or champions any of the aforementioned, CANNOT be on this list.

The black community is NOT synonymous is with ill manners, ignorance, disrespect, disheveled appearance, unattractiveness, unpleasant attitudes, childishness, cursing, unsanitary grooming habits, or tackiness (like wearing clothes for the inside, outside the house). Any book that claims the black community is synonymous or champions any of the aforementioned, OR has a problem with rEsPeCtIbiLiTy PoLiTiCs directly or indirectly CANNOT be on this list.

Any books that violate any rules will be removed without comment.

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1	And It Begins Like This by LaTanya McQueen 4.45 avg rating — 92 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison 4.31 avg rating — 4,117 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.40 avg rating — 359,165 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay 4.13 avg rating — 19,630 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing by Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor) 4.52 avg rating — 360 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese Coleman 4.64 avg rating — 184 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young 4.14 avg rating — 4,705 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 18,221 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Once More To The Ghetto And Other Essays by Jerald Walker really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney 4.09 avg rating — 79 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 5,829 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib 4.55 avg rating — 18,184 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay by Cheryl A. Wall it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Radical King by Martin Luther King Jr. 4.59 avg rating — 1,613 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Love's Long Line by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish 3.84 avg rating — 68,662 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson 3.91 avg rating — 8,752 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson 3.84 avg rating — 23,530 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 26,753 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart 4.10 avg rating — 36,781 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta 3.92 avg rating — 9,763 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	lost in language & sound: or how i found my way to the arts: essays by Ntozake Shange 3.72 avg rating — 132 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Toni Morrison 4.19 avg rating — 4,986 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing by Marita Golden (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles R. Johnson (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 527 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih 4.42 avg rating — 189 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter 3.50 avg rating — 2,075 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley 3.78 avg rating — 597 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop by Kwame Alexander 4.40 avg rating — 129 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A Companion to African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars