The New Negro
10 best books like The New Negro (Alain LeRoy Locke): Quicksand, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Nigger, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Corregidora, "Sweat", Nigger Heaven
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...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Author | James Weldon Johnson |
ISBN | 0809000326 |
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.
The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured...
Author | Dick Gregory |
ISBN | 0671735608 |
I read this book years ago. It was given to me by a young black man who was working to change the attitudes of white people. However, I was a young white woman and he knocked on my apartment door and asked to come in and talk about Civil Rights. It was 1964. I was a senior in high school. I asked him to come in. He...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
ISBN | 0393285677 |
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...
Author | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
ISBN | 0807009199 |
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes...
Author | Nellie Y. McKay |
ISBN | 0393977781 |
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.
This landmark anthology includes...
Author | Gayl Jones |
ISBN | 0807063150 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...
Author | Zora Neale Hurston |
ISBN | 0813523168 |
Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Fire!!, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman,...
Author | Carl Van Vechten |
ISBN | 0252068602 |
A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s
No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's...