African American Creative Arts Reading List: Literature

• In Black and White: Six Profiles of African American Authors

  Authors profiled: Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, August Wilson, and John Wideman.

• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

  Call Number: Brandon Library Paperback section

  ISBN: 9780743270106

  Publication Date: 2005-09-20
• All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones

  Call Number: PS3560.O4813 A77 2006

  ISBN: 9780060557560

  Publication Date: 2006-08-29
• Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange; Ifa Bayeza

  Call Number: PS3569.H3324 S66 2010

  ISBN: 9780312198992

  Publication Date: 2010-09-14
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

  Call Number: PS3613.C28 H43 2023

  ISBN: 9780593422946

  Publication Date: 2023-08-08
• Forgive Me Not: How far would you go for forgiveness? by Jennifer Baker

  Call Number: PZ7.1.B3513 Fo 2023

  ISBN: 9780593406847

  Publication Date: 2023-08-15
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers

  Call Number: PZ7.M992 Mon 1999

  ISBN: 9780060280772

  Publication Date: 1999-04-21

• The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance by Sabina G. Arora; Shalini Saxena (Editor)

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9781680480474

  Publication Date: 2015-07-30
• Octavia E. Butler: Series Modern Masters of Science Fiction by Gerry Canavan

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9780252099106

  Publication Date: 2016-10-31
• Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance : new negro writers, artists, and intellectuals, 1893-1930 by Richard A. Courage (Editor, Contribution by);

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9780252043055

  Publication Date: 2020-05-29
• Harlem Speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz

  Call Number: PS153.N5 H267 2007

  ISBN: 9781402204364

  Publication Date: 2007-01-01
• Voices from the Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor)

  Call Number: PS509.N4 V6 1995

  ISBN: 9780195093605

  Publication Date: 1995-01-26

• A History of African American Poetry by Lauri Ramey

  Call Number: PS310.N4 R357 2019

  ISBN: 9781107035478

  Publication Date: 2019-03-21

  Available at the HCC Dale Mabry Campus Library. Choose Request to send the book to the Plant City campus.
• African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (LOA #333) by Kevin Young

  Call Number: PS591.N4 A37 2020

  ISBN: 9781598536669

  Publication Date: 2020-10-20
• Furious Flower : seeding the future of African American poetry by Joanne V. Gabbin;

  Call Number: PS591.N4 F87 2020

  ISBN: 9780810141544

  Publication Date: 2019-12-16

  Available at Dale Mabry and South Shore campus libraries. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.
• The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper (Editor); Anthony Walton (Editor)

  Call Number: PS591.N4 V56 2000

  ISBN: 9780375703003

  Publication Date: 2000-02-15

  Available at the Brandon and Dale Mabry campus libraries. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.
• Funk Lore: new poems, 1984-1995 by Amiri Baraka

  Call Number: PS3552.A583 F86 1996x

  ISBN: 1557132968

  Publication Date: 1996-11-01

• Ebony Rising: short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era by Craig Gable (Other Primary Creator)

  Call Number: PS647.A35 E24 2004

  ISBN: 0253343984

  Publication Date: 2004-06-01
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)

  Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1995

  ISBN: 9780679601722

  Publication Date: 1995-08-22
• The Big Sea by Langston Hughes; Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)

  Call Number: PS3515.U274 Z5 1993

  ISBN: 9780809015498

  Publication Date: 1993-08-01

  Request from the Brandon campus library.
• Native Son by Richard Wright

  Call Number: PS3545.R815 N25 2005

  ISBN: 9780061148507

  Publication Date: 2008-04-29
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)

  Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z46 2009

  ISBN: 9780345514400

  Publication Date: 2009-04-21
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

  Call Number: PS3552.U827 P37 2019

  ISBN: 9781538732182

  Publication Date: 2019-04-30

  Available at the Ybor campus library. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B55 2007

  ISBN: 9780307278449

  Publication Date: 2007-05-08

  Choose Request to have this book sent to the Plant City campus.

• Life and times of Frederick Douglass His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history

• W. E. B. du Bois: Writings (LOA #34) by W. E. B. Du BOIS

  Call Number: E185.97.D73 A2 1986

  ISBN: 9780940450332

  Publication Date: 1987-01-15

  Choose Request to have this book sent to the Plant City campus.
• Alain L. Locke : biography of a philosopher by Harris, Leonard, - Molesworth, Charles

  Call Number: eBook

  ISBN: 9786612504235

  Publication Date: 2008
• Freedom Narratives of African American Women by Janaka Bowman Lewis

  Call Number: PS153.N5 L457 2017

  ISBN: 9781476667782

  Publication Date: 2017-12-21

  Available at the HCC Dale Mabry Campus Library. Choose Request to have the book sent to Plant City.