House Boy,Black boy, Up from slavery, Narratives of the life of Frederick Douglas, Incidents in the life of a slave girl(the last two are slave narratives)
Brown Girl Dreaming I want to write my story like this. I grew up when the author did so I can relate to some of what she experienced. A thought-provoking read.
Great Question! From the top of my head: Beloved or any Toni Morrison book, Push by Sapphire, Kindred by Octavia Butler, any James Baldwin, any Sherman Alexi but my favorites are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Reservation Blues, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. Also any book by any of the students who were the first Blacks to attend North Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas September 1957.
Non fiction: Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race. Avoid This Will Be My Undoing which is a poorer version by a different author, it was mostly awful
The help?
Maybe not the same, but you could try Barracoon, The Hate U Give, Born a Crime, or one I read many years ago, Black Like Me.
OK
The colour Purple?
Homegoing
Invisible Man, also by Ralph Ellison.
Homegoing was beautifully written.
Little fires everywhere, sing unburied sing
All of Richard Wright, The Color Purple, The Hemings of Monticello
An American Marriage
Cry the Beloved Country is a beautifully written book about South Africa
Small Great Things!
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Book of Negroes.
Erasure by Percival Everett
Black Boy
Between the World and Me.
This was wonderful.
House Boy,Black boy, Up from slavery, Narratives of the life of Frederick Douglas, Incidents in the life of a slave girl(the last two are slave narratives)
It is non-fiction but The Warmth of Other Suns, and it is excellent.
Just finished this. Incredible history!!!
To kill a mockingbird
The Blood of Emmit Till. Nonfiction. Terrifying. Disgusting …
Another Country – James Baldwin. Richard Wright was his mentor.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The sun does shine
The Hate You Give
Small great things by Jodi picoult
A time to kill
Sally by J. Schlenker
The hate you give
The Underground Railroad by Colton Whitehead.
Brown Girl Dreaming
I want to write my story like this. I grew up when the author did so I can relate to some of what she experienced. A thought-provoking read.
Great Question! From the top of my head:
Beloved or any Toni Morrison book, Push by Sapphire, Kindred by Octavia Butler, any James Baldwin, any Sherman Alexi but my favorites are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Reservation Blues, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Sing unburied sing
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
F
Swing Time br zadie smith
don’t kill mockingbirds
Do you mean _To Kill A Mockingbird_?
Cry the Beloved Country
House Boy by Ferdinand Oyono, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano.
Small Island by Andrea Levy.
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe.
Trilogy of Natchez Burning, Bone Tree and Mississippi Burning by Greg Isles.
The Secret Life of Bees
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. Also any book by any of the students who were the first Blacks to attend North Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas September 1957.
I have not read Native Son but just finished Blood At The Root (Phillips) and it was outstanding .
‘The Other Wes Moore’
My current read
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou,
Song yet sung by James Mcbride is about slavery and racism. Lesson before dying is also very good
Is Ken Follet’s “A Place Called Freedom” be considered a book about racism? I know the book entitled “The Help” is.
Heart of darkness by Conrad and the hate u give by Angie Thomas
The whole series that starts with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry–it’s several books.
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Kaffir boy. True story of a boy growing up in apartheid Africa who becomes a tennis player. I read it many moons ago, but it still stays with me.
Disgrace
Born a Crime is great.
Non fiction: Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race. Avoid This Will Be My Undoing which is a poorer version by a different author, it was mostly awful
Their eyes were watching god- Zora Neale Hurston
The hate U give- Angie Thomas
It’s fantasy, but it REALLY goes for it on the topic of racism: CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE
Homecoming
Ta-nehesi Coats. We were 8 years in power.