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A Black Literary Canon - Page 6

Collected from multiple lists, this list, like any attempt at creating a literary canon, is incomplete. This is only part of a larger conversation about what are the greatest, most important, influential, beautiful, poetic, and powerful works of black literature the world over.
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Since I Laid My Burden Down (Brontez Purnell)
Since I Laid My Burden Down (Brontez Purnell)
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Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Melissa Harris-Perry)
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Melissa Harris-Perry)
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Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
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Skin Folk
Skin Folk
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Sleepaway School (Lee Stringer)
Sleepaway School (Lee Stringer)
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A Small Place
A Small Place
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So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter
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So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
210
Social Life of DNA (Alondra Nelson)
Social Life of DNA (Alondra Nelson)
211
Soledad Brother (George Jackson)
Soledad Brother (George Jackson)
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Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
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Song Yet Sung (James McBride)
Song Yet Sung (James McBride)
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The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Toni Morrison)
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Toni Morrison)
216
Splay Anthem (Nathaniel MacKey)
Splay Anthem (Nathaniel MacKey)
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Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (Zora Neale Hurston)
Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
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Stradbroke Dreamtime (Oodgeroo Noonucal)
Stradbroke Dreamtime (Oodgeroo Noonucal)
220
A Street in Bronzeville
A Street in Bronzeville
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Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education (Demetri L. Morgan and Charles H.F. Davis III)
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education (Demetri L. Morgan and Charles H.F. Davis III)
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Subtle Acts of Exclusion (Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran)
Subtle Acts of Exclusion (Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran)
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Sula (Toni Morrison)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
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The Summer We Got Free (Mia McKenzie)
The Summer We Got Free (Mia McKenzie)
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The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon)
The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon)
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
227
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Mitchell S. Jackson)
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Mitchell S. Jackson)
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Warsan Shire)
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Warsan Shire)
229
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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They Came Before Columbus (Ivan Van Sertima)
They Came Before Columbus (Ivan Van Sertima)
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The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
The Thing Around Your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
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To Sir With Love (E.R. Braithwaite)
To Sir With Love (E.R. Braithwaite)
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The Turner House (Angela Fluornoy)
The Turner House (Angela Fluornoy)
235
Two-Headed Woman (Lucille Clifton)
Two-Headed Woman (Lucille Clifton)
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement (Charlene Carrethers)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement (Charlene Carrethers)
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Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Children
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Under the Udala Trees (Chinelo Okparanta)
Under the Udala Trees (Chinelo Okparanta)
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The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
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Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington)
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