📚 Afro-american Women

Books with afro-american women on their catalogue record, first published between 1963 and 1999, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject afro-american women in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 211 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Black Feminist Thought	Patricia Hill Collins	1990	23
	Unequal Sisters	Vicki Ruíz	1990	20
	Ain't I a Woman	bell hooks	1981	17
	Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)	Angela Y. Davis	1981	16
	Feminist theory	Bell Hooks	1984	16
	In Search of Our Mother's Garden	Alice Walker	1983	12
	Black Macho	Michele Wallace	1979	11
	Yesterday I Cried	Iyanla Vanzant	1999	11
	Sister Outsider	Audre Lorde	1984	9
	When and where I enter	Paula J. Giddings	1984	9
	From mammy to Miss America and beyond	K. Sue Jewell	1992	9
	Little X	Sonsyrea Tate	1997	9
	Black Women in White America	Gerda Lerner	1972	8
	We Are Your Sisters	Dorothy Sterling	1984	7
	Unyielding spirits	Maureen G. Elgersman	1999	7
	Silent Voices	Josephine Carson	1969	6
	Black Texas women	Ruthe Winegarten	1995	6
	Black foremothers	Dorothy Sterling	1979	5
	But Some of Us Are Brave	Akasha Hull	1982	5
	Home Girls	Barbara Smith	1983	5
	Women, culture & politics	Angela Y. Davis	1989	5
	Volunteer slavery	Jill Nelson	1993	5
	Gender and Jim Crow	Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore	1996	5
	Black ice	Lorene Cary	1963	4
	The majority finds its past	Gerda Lerner	1979	4
	Common differences	Gloria I. Joseph	1981	4
	Pride of Family	Carole Ione	1991	4
	Women of color	Darlene Mathis	1994	4
	The Abolitionist sisterhood	John C. Van Horne	1994	4
	The voice of Anna Julia Cooper	Anna J. Cooper	1998	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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