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Last Updated August 2, 2024.
- Notes of a Native Son (1955) marks the debut collection of James Baldwin's powerful and impactful essays examining the black experience in both America and abroad.
- Middle Passage (1990) is Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning story about freedman Rutherford Calhoun's journey to Africa as a stowaway on the slave ship Republic.
- Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's novel Jazz (1992) vividly portrays the rhythms and atmosphere of African American life in 1920s Harlem.
- Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright narrates the harrowing tale of Bigger Thomas's futile struggle against racial and social oppression in 1930s Chicago after his job with a wealthy white family ends in disaster.
- Ralph Ellison's Shadow and Act (1964) is a compilation of essays and interviews where the author delves into the essence of existence and human experience.
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