Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2000s (21 books)

Writings and Essays Published by African-Americans in Decade: 2000s

Writing Published during the 2010s Decade (2000 - 2009) 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.

Other Decades
2020, 2010, 2000, 1990

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1	This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley 3.80 avg rating — 2,179 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
2	In Search Of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 3.86 avg rating — 21 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
3	South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature by Trudier Harris 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
4	The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays by William Jelani Cobb 4.05 avg rating — 97 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
5	Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry 4.16 avg rating — 38 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
6	A Love No Less: Two Centuries of African American Love Letters by Pamela Newkirk (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.35 avg rating — 34 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
7	Letters from Black America by Pamela Newkirk (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 31 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
8	Can Anything Beat White?: A Black Family's Letters (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) by Elisabeth Petry (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 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
9	African American Literary Theory: A Reader by Winston Napier (Editor) 4.48 avg rating — 25 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
10	Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by John F. Callahan (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 20 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
11	Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations Series) by Dana A. Williams (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 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
12	My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature by John Edgar Wideman (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 41 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
13	Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture, One Story at a Time by Jack Canfield 4.39 avg rating — 112 ratings score: 88, 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	Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition by Cheryl A. Wall 4.10 avg rating — 10 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	Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer by E. Ethelbert Miller really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 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	On Writing for Children & Other People by Julius Lester 4.20 avg rating — 40 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	The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes (欧宝娱乐 Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 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	Do the Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success by Kwame Alexander 4.04 avg rating — 26 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	Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America: An Oral History by Wallace Terry 4.08 avg rating — 12 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	Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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	Life Out of Context by Walter Mosley 3.85 avg rating — 75 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