Classic Black Literature
Originally posted by irockirockirock
I’m an avid fan of classic literature, but I feel like in the world of academia, people are very euro/white-centric and forget many amazing black authors of classic books, so here’s a small list!
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
- “Native Son” by Richard Wright
- “Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
- “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
- “Not Without Laughter” by Langston Hughes
- “Cane” by Jean Toomer
- “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
- “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde
- “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” by James Weldon Johnson
- “Through the Ivory Gate” by Rita Dove
- “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry
- “Passing” by Nella Larsen
- “Amiable with Big Teeth” by Claude McKay
- “Imperium in Imperio” by Sutton Griggs
- “The Street” by Ann Petry
- “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas
- “Narrative of Sojourner Truth” by Sojourner Truth
- “The Curse of Caste” by Julia C. Collins
- “Jazz” by Toni Morrison