I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Categories" has been used as a teaching tool in colleges. In September 2009, Louisiana State University included it on the list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950. Also on the list are Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago", Edward W. Said's "Orientalism", Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".