Jan 1, 2010

Joe Turner's Come and Gone | What Do I Read Next?

In Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1996), editors Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen have collected an impressive number and variety of writings by African-American men. The book features more than one hundred entries of fiction and nonfiction works, including slave narratives, autobiographies and biographies, essays, poems, and short stories. Some works are excerpted, while others are reproduced in full. The book also features some previously unpublished writings.
W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most vocal African-American leaders in the late...