Trumbull Park

Frank London Brown

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Frank London Brown's powerful debut novel, originally published in 1959, fictionalizes the real-life ordeals of the first black families to integrate ... Lees meer

Platitudes

Trey Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Trey Ellis's uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community. De... Lees meer

Love and Marriage in Early African America

• Hardcover | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Love and Marriage in Early African America brings together a remarkable range of folk sayings, rhymes, songs, poems, letters, lectures, sermons, short... Lees meer

Infants of the Spring

Wallace Thurman

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• This roman clef centers on Niggeratti Manor, fashioned after the Harlem rooming house in which Wallace Thurman once lived with other black artists and... Lees meer

The Seeking

Will Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Novelist Will Thomas had been a logger in Maine, a crew member on a fishing boat in Alaska, a prizefighter on the West Coast, a scriptwriter in Los An... Lees meer

Alien Land

Willard Savoy

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Alien Land is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America. As a spiritually ... Lees meer

Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light

John A Williams

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Originally published in 1969, this parable of racial intrigue centers on the killing of an unarmed black youth by Sergeant Carrigan, a white policeman... Lees meer

Black No More

George Samuel Schuyler

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp, is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific trans... Lees meer

Home to Harlem

Claude McKay

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the s... Lees meer

Sarah Phillips

Andrea Lee

• Paperback | Engels | New England Library of Black Literature
• This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to othe... Lees meer