African-American History Subject Guide

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by); The New The New York Times Magazine (Created by); Caitlin Roper (Editor); Ilena Silverman (Editor); Jake Silverstein (Editor)

Contemporary Plays by African American Women by Sandra Adell (Editor); Et al.

Fever Within by Bernard L. Herman (Editor)

Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)

The New Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Maria Tatar (Editor)

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor)

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates (General Editor)

Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates; Genevieve West

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Beetlecreek by William Demby

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Confession of Copeland Cane by Keenan Norris

The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins; William L. Andrews (Editor); Mitch Kachun (Editor)

Flowers for the living by Sandra E Johnson

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay; Wayne F. Cooper (Contribution by)

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

The Man Who Lived Underground: a Novel by Richard Wright; Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead

No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Passing by Nella Larsen

Screaming with the Cannibals by L. E. E. MAYNARD

Sula by Toni Morrison

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by)

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge