Books similar like A Voice from the South

Native Son

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man…

Buy this book on Amazon

Iola Leroy

A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath.

First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the stor…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Goodness of St. Rocque; And Other Stories

Buy this book on Amazon

Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sport of the Gods

Buy this book on Amazon

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction perio…

Buy this book on Amazon

The World of Yesterday

Buy this book on Amazon

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave tr…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Souls of Black Folk

This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Professor's House

On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himself in the shabby study of his former home. Surrounded by the comforting, familiar sights of his past, …

Buy this book on Amazon

Ivanhoe

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He …

Buy this book on Amazon

Black No More

What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiri…

Buy this book on Amazon

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-cen…

Buy this book on Amazon

Martin Eden

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obse…

Buy this book on Amazon

The New Negro

Buy this book on Amazon

Passing

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.

This Signet Classics edition…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, t…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hijab Butch Blues

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.

When fourteen-year-old Lamya…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Voice from the South

Similar books (20)