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24 titles for readers of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe, selected for shared themes: Black Studies (Global), Criticism & Theory, Civil Rights, and Discrimination.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Ordinary Notes — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic — Nikki Brown

Jim Crow A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Civil Rights • Discrimination

The Color of Our Shame Race and Justice in Our Time — Christopher J. Lebron

The Color of Our Shame Race and Justice in Our Time

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Civil Rights • Discrimination

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Civil Rights • Discrimination

Black Leadership Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights — Manning Marable

Black Leadership Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Manning Marable

Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

Notes of a Racial Caste Baby Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action — Bryan K. Fair

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Civil Rights • African American & Black Studies

The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies) — Marita Golden

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Themes: Black Studies (Global) • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Remembering Jim Crow African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South — William H. Chafe

Remembering Jim Crow African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South

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Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The Barn The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism — Wright Thompson

The Barn The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism

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Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

What Would Martin Say? — Clarence B. Jones

What Would Martin Say?

Clarence B. Jones

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation — Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Just Pursuit A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness — Laura Coates

Just Pursuit A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1938 Facsimile Edition — Victor H. Green

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1938 Facsimile Edition

Victor H. Green

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention — Manning Marable

Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

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Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community — Marc Schneier

Shared Dreams Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created — Santi Elijah Holley

An Amerikan Family The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots A Black Doctor’s Civil Rights Struggle — Gilbert R. Mason

Beaches, Blood, and Ballots A Black Doctor’s Civil Rights Struggle

Gilbert R. Mason

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The House I Live in Race in the American Century — Robert Jefferson Norrell

The House I Live in Race in the American Century

Robert Jefferson Norrell

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1948 Facsimile Edition — Victor H. Green

The Negro Motorist Green-Book 1948 Facsimile Edition

Victor H. Green

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist — Amina Hassan

Loren Miller, Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party — Joshua Bloom

Black Against Empire The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama — William Warren Rogers

August Reckoning Jack Turner and Racism in Post-Civil War Alabama

William Warren Rogers

Themes: Civil Rights • Discrimination • African American & Black Studies

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Connected by Black Studies (Global), Criticism & Theory, Civil Rights. Authors featured include Nikki Brown, Christopher J. Lebron, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Manning Marable, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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