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Juneteenth Reading for Adults 2021 |
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Homegoing by Yaa GyasiTwo half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations.
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The bluest eye : a novel by Toni MorrisonA new edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
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The nickel boys : a novel by Colson WhiteheadFollows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerDana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
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Their eyes were watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie Starks returns home, the small black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man
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Fences : a play
by August Wilson
During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
In this intricately woven tapestry of American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
by Kevin Young
A wide-ranging anthology of black poetry represents 250 famous and less-recognized poets from the colonial era to the present who used their powerful words to illuminate such issues as racism, slavery and the threatened African Diaspora identity.
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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel WilkersonIn an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families.
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