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This is a list of books written by black authors that have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list in any ranking or category. The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category. [1]
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
[2] [4] Childs sought to "find out why so few African-American authors - other than Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Alex Haley - ever appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List." [2] After two years of research on the buying habits of Black readers, Childs founded BlackBoard with friend and business partner, Debbie Wade. [5]
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The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
Alex Haley (1921–1992), author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family; Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002), author of children's books; Henry Hampton (1940–1998) Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), playwright; Joyce Hansen (born 1942), author of children's books; Vincent Harding (1931–2014), historian and social activist; Edward W. Hardy ...