bhm reading list (2020)
Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
in this collection of plays you can find both The Bronx is Next and Uh Huh But How Do It Free Us
The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade
as promised, february faves.
What the Negro Wants by Rayford W. Logan
I am Black (you have to be willing to not know) by Thomas F. DeFrantz
The Education of Black People by W. E. B. Du Bois
Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward
Criteria of Negro Art by W. E. B. Du Bois
Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield
Liberty Deferred by Abram Hill and John D. Silvera
Uh Huh But How Do It Free Us by Sonia Sanchez
salt by Nayyirah Waheed
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era by E. Quita Craig
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage
Red Light, Green Light Mama and Me by Cari Best
Native Son by Nambi E. Kelley
Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Bronx is Next by Sonia Sanchez
Black Means… by Gladys Groom and Barney Grossman
Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Vigil: Poems by Chiyuma Elliott
The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
On Strivers Row by Abram Hill
Citrus by Celeste Jennings
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson