BOOKS

A List of My Favorite Reads On The African American Experience

Jocelyn G
2 min readJun 20, 2022

In honor of Juneteenth

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These are books that gave me some perspective on the African American experience in the United States. I am drawn to stories more than academic books and so this list is slanted towards memoirs.

A few years ago, to stretch myself I read the well-known book How to Be an

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Jocelyn G

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