Now, I unfortunately don’t know much about this subject, but I do know of books such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Sorry that’s all I can remember.
@Bookworms, got any good books written by African American authors?
I loved reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor back in late elementary school. I hope to read it again someday.
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I forgot about that one! I read it too.
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Ah, yes! Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry! We read that one when I was in middle school, and I’d love to read it again.
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Just to clarify before I make reccomendations…
African - American - Apart of the Black diaspora, descendants of enslaved people in America
Black - American - Any black person regardless of ethnicity in America
Black people - Books by all black authors within the diaspora
Do you still mean African-Americans? I know people get it mixed up
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That’s what the staff task told me to put. I almost put a Nigerian author but realized that wasn’t what the task said.
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Ooh ok! I’ll make reccomendations asap then (:
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Sweet.
In school we’re reading Beloved by Toni Morrison. She has a lot of good books.
In honors of BHM:
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
Their Eyes were Watching God by Hurston (African-American)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (African-American)
Go Tell it to the Mountain by James Baldwin (African-American)
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (African-American) (Contemporary)
Americanah by Chimamanda Adiche (Nigerian)
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Okay I did an American Literature module so from the top of my head
Lorraine Hansberry wrote a play called A Raisin in The Sun, I wrote an essay about it and the relevance it had to the American Civil Rights movement, I do reccommend it
But we also read and analysed non-fiction perspectives too if you would also like me to mention those?
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Go right ahead!
Fixed a tag