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Jabari Asim Books in Order

Jabari Asim has written 23 books, published between 2001 and 2022. The first book is Jamestown's American Portraits: The Road to Freedom (2001) and the newest is Me and Muhammad Ali (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
2001–2022
Pages on record
216 in 2 of 23 books
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Jabari Asim, born August 11, 1962, is an American author, poet and playwright who teaches writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston. Asim formerly edited The Crisis, the NAACP journal of politics, ideas and culture that W. E. B. Du Bois founded in 1910, was named Emerson's inaugural Elma Lewis '43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center in February 2019, and became Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Letters there in September 2022. The catalogue holds 23 books dated 2001 to 2022, among them Road to Freedom: Reconstruction (2001), Whose Toes are Those? (2006), What Obama Means (2009) and Me and Muhammad Ali (2022). Slavery, Reconstruction, African American history and fathers and sons run through the recorded subjects.

How many Jabari Asim books are there?

Jabari Asim has 23 books, released between 2001 and 2022.

Jabari Asim Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Jabari Asim books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Jamestown's American Portraits: The Road to Freedom by Jabari Asim (2001)
  2. Cover of My Baby Loves Christmas by Jabari Asim (2019)
  3. Cover of Stop and Frisk: American Poems by Jabari Asim (2020)
  1. 1
    Jamestown's American Portraits: The Road to Freedom2001 · 126 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001126
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  2. 2
    Road to Freedom: Reconstruction2001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  3. 3
    Whose Toes are Those?2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  4. 4
    Whose Knees Are These?2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  5. 5
    Daddy Goes to Work2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  6. 6
    The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  7. 7
    What Obama Means2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  8. 8
    A Taste of Honey: Stories2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  9. 9
    Girl of Mine2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  10. 10
    Boy of Mine2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  11. 11
    Fifty Cents and a Dream2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  12. 12
    Only the Strong2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  13. 13
    Preaching to the Chickens2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  14. 14
    We Can't Breathe2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  15. 15
    A Child's Introduction to African American HistoryA Child's Introduction #62018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  16. 16
    My Baby Loves Christmas2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  17. 17
    Stop and Frisk: American Poems2020 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202090
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  18. 18
    My Baby Loves Halloween2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  19. 19
    My Baby Loves Valentine's Day2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  20. 20
    Mighty Justice2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  21. 21
    Yonder2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  22. 22
    A Child's Introduction to JazzA Child's Introduction #142022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  23. 23
    Me and Muhammad Ali2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Jabari Asim books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

A Child's Introduction in order

2 books
  1. 6. A Child's Introduction to African American History
  2. 14. A Child's Introduction to Jazz

Standalone books

21 books

21 Jabari Asim titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jabari Asim books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 23 Jabari Asim books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jabari Asim

Start with Jamestown's American Portraits: The Road to Freedom (2001), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jabari Asim book?

Me and Muhammad Ali (2022) is the newest Jabari Asim book released so far.

Is there a new Jabari Asim book coming?

No next Jabari Asim book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Jabari Asim at a glance

Paused
No new Jabari Asim title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Jabari Asim books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
216 pages across the 2 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 108 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jabari Asim books, 9 of 23, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jabari Asim books are about

1 of the 23 Jabari Asim books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.