Black Literature

Literature written by African Americans.

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New Releases Tagged "Black Literature"

The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
Rabbit, Fox, Tar
The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
Dominion
If I Ruled the World
Small Worlds
How It Ends
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
Great Black Hope
Gray Dawn (Easy Rawlins, #17)
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Zeal
Skin & Bones
Isaac's Song
Nightbloom
Bones at the Crossroads (Blood at the Root, #2)
The Devil Three Times
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Color Purple
The Bluest Eye
Beloved
Kindred
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Invisible Man
The Underground Railroad
Between the World and Me
Giovanni’s Room
The Vanishing Half
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Native Son
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Homegoing

your novels. the classic novels of a minutia. i have no interest in. pale. in comparison to the novels of my world. the novel of my mother. the novels of my grandparents. the articulate novels of how my people walk down a street. the novels i have been reading my whole life. — classic
Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

James Baldwin
I was far more the pragmatic American then than I am now. Now, watching my children grow, old enough to have some sense of where I've been, having suffered enough to be no longer terrified of suffering, and knowing something of joy, too, I know that we must attempt to be responsible for what we know. Only this action moves us, without fear, into what we do not know, and what we do not know is limitless. ...more
James Baldwin, Just Above My Head

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