Corregidora
10 best books like Corregidora (Gayl Jones): Middle Passage, Quicksand, No-No Boy, Brown Girl, Brownstones, Zong!, The Street, Our Nig, The Stories of Paul Bowles, Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection, The Ungrateful Refugee
| Author | Charles R. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0684855887 |
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary...
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0141181273 |
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable...
| Author | John Okada |
| ISBN | 0295955252 |
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 1558614982 |
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate...
| Author | M. NourbeSe Philip |
| ISBN | 0819568767 |
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these...
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0395901499 |
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was...
| Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
The Stories of Paul Bowles
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0061137049 |
The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant...
| Author | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0743467698 |
Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much...
| Author | Dina Nayeri |
| ISBN | 1948226421 |
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” ―The New York Times Book Review
"Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those...
| Author | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| ISBN | 0883780615 |
The year 2017 marks the hundredth year after Gwendolyn Brooks' birth, so I felt it appropriate to begin my reading year with her only full length novel Maud Martha. A coming of age tale of Maud Martha Brown Phillips, Brooks short novel speaks of the African American experience in the 1940s.
The...
