black american lit

Follows an African-American family as they migrate from the South to New York after their father is falsely accused of stealing money from his boss.

Based on the life events of two historical characters in the nineteenth century, two women, one black and one white confront their time.

In 1964, African-American author Max Reddick looks back as he dies of cancer, reflecting upon the racism he has faced all his life despite his talent, achievements, and even his marriage to a white woman, and his attempts to escape this identity as just a "black man" in Europe and Africa.

In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.

Attorney Raymond Winston Tyler, Jr. and actress Nicole Marie Springer break off their romance after Ray reveals he is gay, but they remain friends and both continue their quest to find the men of their dreams.

Iola Leroy, a woman of mixed race who always believed she was white, gains a new perspective on her heritage and the plight of African-Americans when she and her mother are sold into slavery.

Harlem Renaissance author Jessie Redmon Fauset's 1929 work in which a young African-American girl who can pass for White moves from Philadelphia to New York searching for opportunities but soon finds that racism is not the only problem a Black woman has to overcome.

A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.

The saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.