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Adult Fiction & Nonfiction for Black History Month |
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Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher MurrayIn 1919 Harlem, literary editor Jessie Redmon Fauset is at the forefront of a Black cultural renaissance, discovering talents like Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen, but her ambition and a secret affair with W.E.B. Du Bois threaten her legacy. From one of the co-authors of The Personal Librarian.
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Disintegration : 2 novellas & 3 stories & a little play by William Melvin KelleyA previously unpublished work by "a lost giant of American literature" (The New Yorker) represents a new contribution to African-American literature, as six intertwined works chart the life of Charles “Chig” Dunford, from his peripatetic youth through his enduring quest for both intellectual fulfillment and true love.
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The Unicorn Woman by Gayl JonesSet in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones is narrated by a Black soldier who returns from World War II, not with glory but into the harsh reality of the Jim Crow south.
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Slaveroad by John Edgar WidemanJohn Edgar Wideman's "slaveroad" is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain, the great expanse to which he writes in this groundbreaking work that unsettles the boundaries of memoir, history, and fiction. The slaveroad begins with the Atlantic Ocean, across which enslaved Africans were carried, but the term comes to encompass the journeys and experiences of Black Americans since then and the many insidious ways that slavery separates, wounds, and persists.
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Good Dirtby Charmaine WilkersonThe daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake.
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Lovely One : A Memoir by Ketanji Brown JacksonIn this unflinching account, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court pulls back the curtain to marry the public record of her life with what is less known, chronicling her extraordinary path to become a jurist on America's highest court.
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Nat Turner, black prophet : a visionary history
by Anthony E. Kaye
This bold new account of the causes and legacy of the enslaved preacher's rebellion, claiming to receive visions from the Spirit urging him to act, takes those divine visions seriously, giving us a new understanding of one of the 19th century's most decisive events. Illustrations.
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The Swans of Harlemby Karen ValbySteeped in the glamour and grit of professional ballet, this captivating account of five extraordinarily accomplished Black ballerinas, the Swans of Harlem, celebrates both their historic careers and their 50-year sisterhood, offering a window into the history of Black ballet, hidden for too long.
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