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561 works of pan-African thought. 10 matching current filters.

Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937
Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Crawford's journey through three marriages in search of love and self-discovery in rural Florida.

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Jonah's Gourd Vine
1934
Zora Neale Hurston

Story of John Pearson, a Baptist preacher whose gifts are undermined by his weakness for women, inspired by Hurston's father.

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Not Without Laughter
1930
Langston Hughes

Coming-of-age story of Sandy Rogers growing up in a small Kansas town, exploring Black middle-class life.

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Home to Harlem
1928
Claude McKay

Jake, a Black soldier returning from WWI to Harlem, navigates the vibrant nightlife and working-class life.

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Banjo
1929
Claude McKay

Black men from across the diaspora gather in Marseilles, exploring pan-African identity and Black internationalism.

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Quicksand
1928
Nella Larsen

Helga Crane, biracial woman, searches for identity across Harlem, Copenhagen, and the rural South.

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Passing
1929
Nella Larsen

Two light-skinned Black women reunite, one passing as white, exploring race, identity, and desire.

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
1912
James Weldon Johnson

Novel about a light-skinned Black man who passes as white, exploring racial identity and 'passing'.

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There Is Confusion
1924
Jessie Redmon Fauset

Three Black families in Philadelphia and New York navigate ambition, love, and racial identity in the early 20th century. Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis, was the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Banana Bottom
1933
Claude McKay

Bita Plant, a Jamaican girl educated in England by missionary patrons, returns to Jamaica and must choose between the Western values she was trained in and her own people. McKay's finest novel.

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