African american literature

Book — Non-fiction. By Kidada Williams. 2012. 281 pages. This book documents African Americans' testimonies about racial violence during Jim Crow, and the crusades against that violence that became political training grounds for the Civil Rights Movement.

Novels such as "Go Tell it On the Mountain," "If Beale Street Could Talk" and "Another Country" were all banned for various reasons.

From Danez Smith to Ijeoma Oluo, read a list of National Book Award-winning novelist Jesmyn Ward's favorite books by contemporary African-American authors.

Buy a cheap copy of The Norton Anthology of African American... book. The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular... Free Shipping on all orders over $15.

This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for literature in the United States. A poet of unquestionable skill and ability, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the son of two former slaves. His father, who managed to escape slavery, was an early enlistee who fight for the Union army in the American Civil War - a fact which profoundly influenced his son's outlook upon the U.S. military and life as a citizen of…

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Read 403 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A shining star of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes is one of modern litera…

50 Books That Every African American Should Read

This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye’s constructive initiative to include African women’s experiences and voices within...

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