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Northeastern Library of Black Literature

Alien Land

Action-packed and absorbing, a grim but sensitive picture of race and identity in America

Savoy, Willard

Black Empire

"Imagine W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Marcus Garvey rolled into one fascist superman, and there you have Dr. Henry Belsidus. . . [The novels] are an Afrocentrist's dream." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times Book Review

Schuyler, George Samuel; Hill, Robert A., ed.; Rasmussen, R. Kent, ed.; Williams, John A., foreword; Hill, Robert A., afterward

Black No More
Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people could suddenly become white?

Schuyler, George Samuel; Miller, James, foreword

Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line
Dispatches from a Black Journalista
This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America

Kaplan, Erin Aubry and Michael Eric Dyson, fwd.

Home To Harlem

A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue

McKay, Claude, Cooper, Wayne F., fwd.

Infants Of The Spring

A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance.

Thurman, Wallace; Singh, Amritjit, foreword

Love and Marriage in Early African America

An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family

Foster, Frances Smith, ed.

Loving Her

Originally published in 1974, Loving Her is the first novel by an African American author to deal explicitly with interracial lesbian love.

Shockley, Ann Allen; Lane, Alycee, foreword

Platitudes

A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community.

Ellis, Trey; Ashe, Bertram D., foreword

Sarah Phillips

"Andrea Lee's authority as a writer comes of an unstinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." -- New York Times Book Review

Lee, Andrea; Smith, Valerie, foreword

The Seeking

Now back in print, the groundbreaking memoir of one of the first black families in Vermont

Thomas, Will; Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Edited, and with an Introduction and Afterword to the New Edition, by Mark J. Madigan and Dan Gediman

Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light
A Novel of Some Probability
This complex and inventive novel by one of the most significant African American writers of the twentieth century reflects the author's apocalyptic vision of black revolutionary impulses and reactionary white conspiracies in the late 1960s.

Williams, John A.; Yarborough, Richard, foreword

Trumbull Park

Frank Brown’s classic novel of racial strife in a Chicago housing project is once again in print.

Brown, Frank London