/lit/ - Literature

1. he was a quadroon
2. most african works are rarely translated
3,
Fiction:

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Ralph Elllis - Inviisble Man
Ishmael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
Zora Neal Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Wilson Harris - Four Quartets
Richard Wright - Native Son
James Baldwin - Giovannis Room
Jean Toomer - Cane
Edwidge Danticat - Everything Inside
Chimimanda Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
Alice Walker - the Color Purple
Yaa Gyasi - Homecoming


Theory

Frantz Fanon - Black Skin White Masks
W.E.B DuBois - the Souls of Black Folk
Achille Mbembe - Necropolitics
Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider
Hortense Spillers - Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe
Sylvia Wynter - After Man, Its Overrepresentation
Fred Moten - In the Break
Lewis Gordon - Bad Faith and Anti Black Racism
Calvin L Warren - Ontological Terror
Frank Wilkerson III - Afropessimism
Sadia Hartman - Wayward Lives
Alice Walker - In Search or Our Mother’s Gardens


Non Fiction

Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Assata Shakur: Assata: An Autobiography
George Jackson - Soledad Brother
Fredrick Douglass - Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass
Richard Wright - Black Boy


Poetry by movement

>Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes
Jean Toomer
Claude McKay
Countee McCullen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Paul Lawrence Dunbar

>Modernism
Robert Hayden

>Black Arts Movement & adjacent poets
Etheidge Knight
Amiri Baraka
Sonia Sanchez
Nikki Giovanni
Audre Lorde


>Contemporary
Claudia Rankine
Camille Rankine
Dionne Brand
Robin Coste Lewis
Ed Roberson
Yusuf Kamanyaaka
Danez Smith

>Non-American
Aimé Césaire
Derek Walcott

4. I'm guessing you were fishing for someone to say something like "because niggers can't write huehuehue"

"Hobbiton", Roger Garland