16 best black books for a month of black history –

A month of black history is coming to an end, but black people can still have a good time and draw all feelings which are related to historical black.

While February means celebrating all black things, as is a black life. Together, we recognize the experience of African Americans – from 1619, when the primary enslaved Africa pressed his feet to American soil. It is barely equal to paying tribute to our ancestors, black perfection and people who influenced our history and culture. It can be a good time to soak up all unknown stories and miracles of our heritage. Downloading appears online through social media. However, black books are the ultimate source of immersion in resistance and amazement of black, past and present.

16 best black books for a month of black history

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This slave narrative of Harriet Ann Jacobs was originally published in 1861, because the civil war began. Jacobs fictionalized her own story in regards to the horrors of slaves’ life as a young girl, especially one to cope with sexual harassment expected by her owner of the slave and the physical violence of his jealous wife.

Thayer and Eldridge

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Charles W. Chesnutt was a fertile black author who could go thoroughly for White, but refused. This historic text, published on the turn of the century, presents the Wilmington Race riots in 1898. He focuses on racial policy, violence and blackface during reconstruction and, unfortunately, echoes of events today.

Haughton, Mifflin and Company

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James Weldon Johnson, the creator of the Black National Anthem, “Raise every voice and singing”, shares the history of the Black Mother’s upbringing, but he also believes that he was as white as his school -age peers because of his biographical heritage. His loss of innocence comes when his teacher discriminates him. In the entire text, Johnson gives first -hand relations and observations that occupy two racial spaces, not adapting to any, but forced to decide on one.

Sherman, French & Co.

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Zora Neale Hurston He plays his anthropological chops on this book, which was published in 1935. He collects and documents cultural information from his hometown Florida and New Orleans and presents the wonder of strange people: their voice, their dictionary, their lives.

Harper Collins

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This existential text tells the story of a lonely, nameless black man moving within the white world, and ultimately we consider it to be isolated from society to level and protect ourselves from these powers. It is an allegory for the entire black race, which is treated badly, objectified, created and rejected in such a way that it might as well be invisible.

Random house

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Christianity has close connections with the experience of Black Americans, and in lots of cases it’s inseparable. James Baldwin He puts beauty and problematic on the positioning through a young man who tries to barter being black, religious, unloved and perhaps gay. This is an exploration of identity and migration.

Knopf

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We are blessed that now we have this book on the planet. Alex Haley documented a life -changing story X for two years before the assassination. The book was published posthumously in 1965.

Balantine books

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Long before the era of Crack, the heroine slaughtered havoc in black communities. Donald Goines, a good author of street literature, perfectly reflects the pain of addiction.

Holloway House

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Alex Haley’s genealogical tree is for context. He tells the story of his matriarchal ancestor from Africa through the central passage and thru slavery for movable property and is led by his descendants. The text was integral for African Americans who need to know their family roots and causing interest in genealogy.

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Shange Ntozake conquered the Black Arts movement when her choreopoem collection hit the theaters. These monologues are rooted in black feminism and speak specifically in regards to the intersection of the breed and sexism of the experience of black women.

Bantam books

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This award -winning Nobel Prize on the history of the Black Family and shows the nuance and complexity of the black community rarely emphasized in mainstream literature through the extraordinary story of Morrison and delightful words.

Alfred Knopf

12. Violet color

If a story about black trauma, toxic masculinity and survival has ever appeared, Alice Walker will probably appear. The recorded book of Pulitzer reached a large screen three years after the day of the publisher in 1982, and later it was transformed into a musical and film film on Broadway.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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A chilly, raw reality of drug culture is bleeding from these sides. He effectively reflects the charm of the sport, while serving its consequences.

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Mass imprisonment has been harassing the black community for a very long time. Representing only 13% of the population of the nation, black people constitute 40% of the prison population. Michelle Alexander combines this discrepancy with the war with drugs created to militize the police and breaking the black communities, but in addition reveals its lasting effect, in addition to its continuous character.

New press

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The underground railway was a real railway line during adolescence; Don’t be ashamed. Colson Whitehead presents this angle on this historical text awarded by Pulitzer. This is a refreshing fictitious view of slavery.

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This is the story of a life full of contradiction, tragedy and immunity. Kiese Laimon presents parts of his life in complicated details, taking the reader by observing a number of violence against the Black People and a number of violence they committed. This memory is the counting of internal and external conflict with and around them.

Simon & Schuster