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5 days ago WEB Without further ado, check out these 30 must-read African American literature books. 1. Cane by Jean Toomer (1923) Buy on Amazon. Add to library. The versatile, lyrical writer Jean Toomer produced only one novel during his long and varied career, which ranged …
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Spanning decades, leaping continents, and crowded with unforgettable voices, this …
1 day ago WEB African American Fiction Classics. Revisit classic books by African American authors that have resonated with readers around the world. These beloved novels by literary …
1 week ago WEB Jubilee By Margaret Walker. Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. The Street By Ann Petry. The Street , set in …
1 week ago WEB Hurston used black Southern dialect in the characters' dialogue to proudly represent their voices and manner. Buy it on Amazon. 10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in …
2 days ago WEB Celebrate Black History Month reading these NAACP-nominated books, from fiction to poetry and young adult literature. "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, …
1 week ago WEB Classic works on black life in Midwestern cities is Joe Trotter’s Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945 and Allan Spear’s Black Chicago: The …
2 days ago WEB Clotel has the distinction of being the first novel published by an African-American. Brown, an American abolitionist who had escaped slavery as a young man, published Clotel …
1 week ago WEB The first historical fiction novel in the critically acclaimed African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart examines the fallout that occurs after the British colonize an African village in the late …
2 days ago WEB Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an …
1 week ago WEB Interview by Eve Gerber. 1 Cane by Jean Toomer. 2 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. 3 The Narrows by Ann Petry. 4 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. 5 …
6 days ago WEB The Street by Ann Petry (1946) The Street on Bookshop.org* The Street by Ann Petry was published in 1946 and became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell …
1 week ago WEB 5. Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. Now 44% Off. $9 at Amazon $15 at bookshop.org. As one of our country’s great Black writers, Baldwin published a slew of …
1 week ago WEB 6. Deacon King Kong by James McBride. One of the top 10 African American books of 2020, Deacon King Kong tells us about a community under threat, about the ways …
1 week ago WEB It's still unclear if this is is for books by African-Americans, or about them. (It clearly qualifies on the latter.) 893 books based on 1129 votes: The Color Purple by Alice …
6 days ago WEB A trio of the most influential African-American writings Belongs on the bookshelves of everyone interested in African-American history . Exploring such themes as slavery …
1 day ago WEB About Early African-American Classics. This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers …
4 days ago WEB The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 11271 downloads; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass 7231 downloads; Incidents …
1 week ago WEB All the books on the list "The Great American Novels" from The Atlantic. The Atlantic's list of "The Great American Novels" was created with the aim of redefining the American …
1 day ago WEB 3 Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D G Kelley. 4 Hands on the Freedom of the Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC …
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6 days ago WEB African American Classic Books Showing 1-29 of 29 The Street (Paperback) by. Ann Petry (shelved 2 times as african-american-classic) avg rating 4.26 — 11,832 ratings …
6 days ago WEB Natalie Baszile's book follows Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother, as she struggles to build a new life amid the complexities in the contemporary …
3 days ago WEB The book is a classic coming-of-age tale turned on its head, since Holden doesn’t mature. You can read J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye by ordering through publisher …