African American Literary Criticism
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

Black Skin, White Masks

Playing in the Dark

Origin of Others

How We Get Free

The Source of Self-regard

The White Card

Positive Obsession

The Big Sea

James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)

Les Blancs: the Collected Last Plays

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Rachel

The Black Box

Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

Blake; Or, the Huts of America

The Black Woman

The Matter of Black Lives

What Moves at the Margin

Black Skin: the Definitive Skincare Guide

Race and Resistance

The Black Interior

The Trembling Hand

Language As Liberation

Monstrous Intimacies

Thiefing Sugar

Du Bois's Telegram

Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366)

'membering Austin Clarke

A Violent Peace

Gee's Bend

On Morrison

Gothic America

National Abjection

Turning South Again

Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior

Third Worlds Within

Latinx Literature Unbound

Creole Indigeneity

The Social Imperative

African American Performance and Theater History

Ethnic Modernism

American Lazarus

The Blues Detective

Beginning Ethnic American Literatures

Imagining the Nation

The Invention of Native American Literature

An Ethics of Betrayal

Native Son

Reasoning From Race

The Freedom to Remember

Multicultural American Literature

Modern Minority

Shakin' Up Race and Gender

The Nature of Native American Poetry

Genius in Bondage

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Shut Up and Listen

Ain’t No Mo’

Inventing the American Primitive

Writing the Ghetto