Jubilee
8 best books like Jubilee (Margaret Walker): Red River, Life Is Short But Wide, Middle Passage, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, The Street, Linden Hills, Freeman, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
| Author | Lalita Tademy |
| ISBN | 0446578983 |
Necessary but not sure about the score.
I guess I'll give this book a 3. I'm really on the fence about what I feel about this book.
The author Lalita Tademy has painstakingly researched her family history on both sides, maternal and paternal. Even though one can find a lot of records,...
| Author | J. California Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385511345 |
Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you do, you are...
| 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...
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0525559531 |
The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American...
| 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 | Gloria Naylor |
| ISBN | 0140088296 |
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although...
| Author | Leonard Pitts Jr. |
| ISBN | 1932841644 |
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 1101980303 |
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
