Books to Get You Into Black Literature

Black Classic Literature | Reading Black Classics What Up Search Fam! We're back in the spirit of black literature and black history month. I'm offering some suggestions, as a college professor, to get you introduced to Black Classic Literature. Books Mentioned: Native Son by Richard Wright Family by J. California Cooper A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines Zeal by Morgan Jerkins The Street by Anne Petry Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray Quicksand by Nella Larson Cane Jean Toomer Fledgling and Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler My Soul to Keep by Tenanerive Due The Comet by DuBois Sula by Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan Black Women Writer’s at Work by Claudia Tate