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

Collection of African-American folklore from Florida and hoodoo practices from New Orleans.

Hurston's autobiography from her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, to her career as a writer and anthropologist.

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

Hughes's first poetry collection capturing the rhythms of jazz and blues with poems celebrating Black life.

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

Hughes's autobiography covering his childhood, travels, and the Harlem Renaissance.

Experimental work combining poetry, prose, and drama depicting Black life in the rural South and urban North.

First poetry collection including famous poems 'Heritage' and 'Incident' exploring race and identity.

Second poetry collection continuing exploration of race and romanticism in classical verse forms.

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

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

Poetry collection including militant sonnet 'If We Must Die' written after Red Summer of 1919.

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

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

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

Poetic renditions of traditional Black folk sermons capturing oratory power of Black preachers.

History of African Americans in New York City from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance.

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.

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.