362 African American Literature Study Guides
Age of Iron
Season of Migration to the North
The Joys of Motherhood
One Day I Will Write About This Place
Betsey Brown
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
In the Heart of the Country
A Dry White Season
Jazz
Murambi, The Book of Bones
Ghana Must Go
Dessa Rose
Drenched in Light
Black Star
The Three Mothers
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
The Garies and Their Friends
Jubilee
The Story of an African Farm
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Memphis
Betty Before X
Trouble Don't Last
Red River
Praisesong For The Widow
Going To Meet The Man
Boesman and Lena
Spunk
A Question of Power
Gem of the Ocean
The Gilded Six-Bits
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Depression
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Blackstone Rangers
Ruby
Counting Descent
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
Me and the Mule
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi...
The Passing of Grandison
Blessing the Boats
Sleeping with the Dictionary
If We Must Die
Paradise
Roots
Harlem
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight ...”]
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
It won’t be a bullet
Fifth Grade Autobiography
Dawn
Mothers
A Small Needful Fact
There Was a Country
Beasts of No Nation
Cynthia in the Snow
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Graceland
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
Libertie
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
This Is the Fire
Good Man
Frederick Douglass
On Anger
Lovecraft Country
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Stakes Is High
Too Late the Phalarope
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Walking with the Wind
The America Play
In West Mills
Love Song for Alex, 1979
A Visit to Grandmother
Aubade
Chosen
Solitary
And It Don't Stop
God's Trombones
A Soldier's Play
Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
The Tradition
The Memory of Love
The Book of Memory
Ways of Dying
Sleepwalking Land
The Sport of the Gods
Sent for You Yesterday
Cockroaches
Xala
Radiance of Tomorrow
How to Read the Air
The Rockpile
Like a Winding Sheet
A Question of Freedom
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Indecency
Slave on the Block
Coconut
A Summer Tragedy
Flying Home
The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
The Madonna of Excelsior
By the Light of My Father's Smile
The Pickup
Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman
Dreams in a Time of War
The Stone Virgins
Fools and Other Stories
None to Accompany Me
All Our Names
Infants of the Spring
While the World Watched
A Grain of Wheat
Big Black Good Man
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Plum Bun
A Man of Good Hope
The Residue Years
Apex Hides the Hurt
The Road to Mecca
Country of My Skull
Thomas and Beulah
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Venus
Bombingham
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Blackout
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Nickel Boys
A Raisin in the Sun
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Purple Hibiscus
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oil on Water
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
Take My Hand
All the Sinners Bleed
Freewater
A Man of the People
Second Class Citizen
Ninth Ward
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Bud, Not Buddy
New Kid
The River Between
The Message
The Color Purple
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Heart Of Redness
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Rebound
Beloved
Let Us Descend
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
Fledgling
A Dance of the Forests
Sunny
Crook Manifesto
Kindred
Erasure
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Maru
The Lion and the Jewel
The Sweetness of Water
The Shadow King
Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits
Bluebird, Bluebird
Every Day Is for the Thief
Anowa
I Will Marry When I Want
The Color of Water
The Temple of My Familiar
We Need New Names
Harriet Tubman
My Grandmother's Hands
Betrayal in the City
Maud Martha
The Fire Next Time
Between the World and Me
Black Feminist Thought
The Door of No Return
So Long a Letter
Six Feet of the Country
Invisible Man
Cell One
Class Act
Hoops
Devil on the Cross
Mules and Men
Deacon King Kong
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Four Hundred Souls
Two Trains Running
Sweat
A Little Devil in America
Miracle's Boys
Swim Team
Apollo
Half of a Yellow Sun
Bronx Masquerade
Black AF History
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Clean Getaway
The Barn
The New Jim Crow
A Lesson Before Dying
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories
The Season of Styx Malone
Decolonising the Mind
Mother to Son
King of the Bingo Game
The Famished Road
The Colored Museum
Love
The Piano Lesson
Bitter Fruit
Petals of Blood
We Wear the Mask
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Arrow of God
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Memorial Drive
Locomotion
The City We Became
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
The Reformatory
The Intuitionist
This Could Be Us
Heritage
Ballad of Birmingham
Harlem Duet
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Weep Not, Child
Let America Be America Again
Linden Hills
On Black Sisters Street
Native Son
Waiting to Exhale
King Hedley II
Ways to Make Sunshine
Up From Slavery
The Sky Is Gray
Sweetness
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
The Black Atlantic
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
If I Survive You
The Conservationist
The Bride Price
Anthills Of The Savannah
The Darkest Child
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Sonnet
Roselily
The Amen Corner
Efuru
Crossbones
Wizard of the Crow
The Salt Eaters
The Hill We Climb
Victory. Stand!
Marigolds
A Private Experience
Mother to Mother
David Walker's Appeal
My Father's Love Letters
Thick: And Other Essays
The Red Record
The Sellout
Warriors Don't Cry
The Blood Knot
The Headstrong Historian
Women
Matigari
Knoxville, Tennessee
Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
I Sit and Sew
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Po' Sandy
Wade in the Water
Push
Tears of a Tiger
The Mamba Mentality
Dim Lady
I Beat the Odds
The People Could Fly
On the Come Up
An Orchestra of Minorities
The Men of Brewster Place
The Collector of Treasures
Sula
The Mountaintop
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
Imperium in Imperio
To Hell with Dying
Becoming
Harlem Shuffle
The Women of Brewster Place
The Slave Community
I, Too
The Blacker the Berry
This Side of Home
Nervous Conditions
It's Not All Downhill From Here
A True Story
Phenomenal Woman
Philadelphia Fire
Everyday Use
Salvage the Bones
Jesus and the Disinherited
No Longer at Ease
Stamped From the Beginning
The Flowers
Burger's Daughter
Big Boy Leaves Home
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Conjure Woman
The Marrow of Tradition
Black Sunday
After Tupac and D Foster
A Human Being Died That Night
Trouble in Mind
Everything Good Will Come
We Real Cool
Jump and Other Stories
The Coldest Winter Ever
Coal
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Tar Baby
A Voice from the South
Waiting for an Angel
The Souls of Black Folk
Song Yet Sung
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Ego Tripping
The Weary Blues
Cat in the Rain
Say You're One of Them
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Our Sister Killjoy
A Most Beautiful Thing
Gorilla, My Love
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On the train the woman standing
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Money Hungry
Seven Guitars
To His Excellency General Washington
On the Pulse of Morning
Ambiguous Adventure
The Sand Child
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Scorpions
The Thing Around Your Neck
No Sweetness Here