2022 MAY of the MODERNS! - hosted by margaretpinard

'Timeless Prompt: a Black classic that discusses race and class in ways that are still relevant in today’s modern world'
--from Bre, of Loc'd Booktician (link)  
Bre's Resources & Recommendations: check out her Playlist for Black Classics (link), including Black No More by George Schuyler; Cane by Jean Toomer; Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes 
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The Souls of Black Folk:with The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folks. by Ibram X. Kendi, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk:with The Talented Tenth and The Souls of White Folks.

Ibram X. Kendi, W.E.B. Du Bois

266 pages • first pub 1903 (editions)

nonfiction classics history race challenging reflective fast-paced
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

288 pages • first pub 1903 (editions)

nonfiction classics history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Zora Neale Hurston

336 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

nonfiction history religion travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes

I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes #14

Langston Hughes

16 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 1964 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography memoir travel challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Home To Harlem by Claude McKay

Home To Harlem

Northeastern Library of Black Literature

Claude McKay

340 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Wesleyan Poetry

Aimé Césaire

100 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Cane by Jean Toomer

Cane

Jean Toomer

472 pages • first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics poetry short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

219 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

544 pages • first pub 1940 (editions)

fiction classics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes

226 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective medium-paced
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