/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19959226]

What are some great books written by black authors?

I'm trying to broaden my perspective & learn :)

[Anonymous No.19959232]

>>19959226
You girlfriend's other boyfriend's diary

[Anonymous No.19959233]

St Augustine

[Anonymous No.19959237]

>>19959226
This is the only actual good book I could think of.

[Anonymous No.19959250]

>>19959232
please leave the thread if you're just going to make bait comments

[Anonymous No.19959259]

>>19959226
The Count of Monte Christo

[Anonymous No.19959260]

>>19959226
something something posthumous diaries of a black man idk man

[Anonymous No.19959264]

>>19959250
Cry about it nerd

[Anonymous No.19959267]

>>19959260
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. Also the character wasn’t black. The writer was mixed race.

[Anonymous No.19959305]

>>19959267
too much for me to remember. like my dad always said, if the bible only needed one word for its title, i don't know why you'd need more

[Anonymous No.19959377]

>>19959232
shit bait.

[Anonymous No.19959419]

If you can read dutch, or want to sit through a translation, I recommend Dubbelspel by Frank Martinus Arion.

[Anonymous No.19959431]

>>19959226
Invisible Man and The Bluest Eye.

[Anonymous No.19959566]

Alexandre Dumas is the only one coming to my mind, so as the other anon said, The Count of Monte Cristo is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.19959604]

White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty was really good and really annoying at the same time. Black people cant help themselves sometimes so I shrugged off the cringe aspects.
I also really like Their Eyes We’re Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

[Anonymous No.19960129]

>>19959566
>black

Hardly. You can even mention his haiti background, and he'll still be white as shit.

[Anonymous No.19960135]

>>19959431
Invisible Man taught me more about the experience of black people in America than I ever learned in history class in high school.

[Anonymous No.19960152]

>>19959226
Are there any black authors who don't write about race, specifically how hard it is being black in a country where black people can become millionaires by rhyming 'niggas' with 'niggas'? Is there an Alice in Wonderland type of story out there written by a black author?

[Anonymous No.19960164]

>>19959259
He was mixed.

[Anonymous No.19960176]

>>19960152
>in a country where black people can become millionaires by rhyming 'niggas' with 'niggas'?
I kek'd

[Anonymous No.19960204]

>>19959419
Unexpected yet based recommendation.

[Anonymous No.19960294]

>>19959226
I know this is just a bait thread but I'll post a few anyway-
Cane by Jean Toomer
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany

>>19959431
Yeah, both good. Especially Invisible Man.

[Anonymous No.19960295]

>>19959226
Everything by Thomas Sowell.

[Anonymous No.19960394]

>>19960129
Depends. Did france have something like the one drop rule?

[Anonymous No.19960964]

Frantz fanon ???

[Anonymous No.19961093]

>>19959226
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

[Anonymous No.19961132]

>>19960295
Thomas Sowell is (((Milton Friedman's))) pet nigger. Everything he ever wrote is subversive trash meant to weaken America and send it further in corporate ownership. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.19961150]

>>19961132
hurr mah durr brrr drr DA JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

[Anonymous No.19961156]

>>19961150
>hurr mah durr brrr drr DA JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

[Anonymous No.19961166]

>>19959226
The Bible
The Lord of the Ring
Buck Breaking

[Anonymous No.19961172]

Walter E Williams
Thomas Sowell
Paul Kagame's biography
>>19961132
Yes let more government intervention and support for the parasites happen, when people vote your way the central banking cartel will suddenly be good for everyone

[Anonymous No.19961193]

>>19961172
>guberment bad
It's about who's in charge, moron, and there will always be someone in charge, so make sure it's your guys and not (((theirs))).

[Anonymous No.19961220]

>>19959226
The Weary Blues
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Invisible Man
Giovanni's Room
Things Fall Apart
Xala
Beloved

[Anonymous No.19961343]

>>19959226
Lots of poets

[Anonymous No.19961458]

>>19960294
>Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Can I ask how you heard about this? I'm very curious if it might be similar to how I discovered it.

[Anonymous No.19961475]

>>19959226

[Anonymous No.19961536]

Rapping is just the American form of poetry, so by right all rappers a poets. You can just listen to rap music to immerse in the American literary scene

[Anonymous No.19961552]

People always say that Song Of Solomon and Beloved are the best Toni Morrison books, but for me, it is Sula

[Anonymous No.19961554]

>>19961536
bait

[Anonymous No.19961571]

I like Imaro, basically just Black Conan riding around on tigers punching the lights out of Voodoo wizards and jungle monsters.

[Anonymous No.19961574]

I genuinely liked Native Son by Richard Wright until the last 100 pages when it got the Ayn Rand style monologue.

[Anonymous No.19961578]

>>19961536
There once was a thug named Brown
Who bumrushed a cop with a frown
Six bullets later he met his Creator
And his homies burnt the town

[Anonymous No.19961870]

>>19959226
Nicole Hannah Jones - 1619

[Anonymous No.19961999]

Have you heard of Dr. Matthew C. Harris?

[Anonymous No.19962004]

>>19960135
>Black people make up insane racial grievances about the recent past

Checks out

[Anonymous No.19962009]

>>19959431
Never read bluest eye but Song of Solomon is truly one of the worst books I've ever read

[Anonymous No.19962028]

>>19961150
Yeah weird how the people massively overrepresented in media ownership and top management (especially movies, news, and porn), in political representation, in the top levels of the military, in academia, in publishing, in campaign donations, and in finance may actually be responsible for literally anything

[Anonymous No.19962045]

>>19962028
Then your beef is with the establishment, not Jews.

[Anonymous No.19962077]

>>19962045
The establishment, at all levels, is almost exclusively dominated by Jews.

The establishment, before that came to be, wasn't nearly this bad.

Think really hard about how effortlessly leftists will condemn white people because of the existing power structure but also excuse Jews for not being white, despite dominating that power structure.

There are other fundamental problems, sure. But tackling Jewish power head on is essential to actually making the world a better place.

[Anonymous No.19962117]

>>19959226
Richard Wright's memoir, Black Boy, is excellent. He details growing up in the Jim Crow south, moving north as a young man, and experiencing new and more insidious forms of racism in the north. He then joins a communist party where in his first meeting he witnesses a dispute between factions where one side nominates him to be the new chapter president because they know the other side won't vote against a black man. It has a lot in it about how black people behave around eachother vs how they behave around white people. If you want to get a better grasp of the history of race in america then I definitely recommend it. It's a great life story as well.

[Anonymous No.19962131]

>>19962028
so any Jew who gets ahead only got ahead because they were born Jewish? How is this any different from white privilege nonsense?

>>19962077
>I read it in a /pol/ infograph so it must be true!

[Anonymous No.19962140]

Class Notes - Adolph Reed

[Anonymous No.19962146]

>>19959226
I love black women so much it's unreal
Love from Houston (actually GeorgeFloydistan)

[Anonymous No.19962266]

>>19962131
>How is this any different from white privilege nonsense?

Non-hispanic whites make up 60% of the American population. Jews of all races make up 2% and are significantly more ethnocentric than whites. Considering those numbers it's fair to ask questions about how they came to be so overrepresented in positions of power. Nepotism is just a theory but you must admit it is weird that they make up over 60% of American billionaires.

[Anonymous No.19962277]

>>19962077
>The establishment, at all levels, is almost exclusively dominated by Jews.

Last I checked it was a pretty even mix of Jews and gentiles. It's undeniable there's massive overrepresentation though.

[Anonymous No.19962316]

>>19962131
It would probably behoove you to actually look at the board composition of any major corporation, the top hedge fund, managers, the religion of most of Biden's cabinet, top political donors, etc

/pol/ obviously has a bias but it's not like they're making things up whole cloth

[Anonymous No.19962348]

>>19962131
White people are significantly underrepresented at most levels of power and influence. There are also demonstrable mechanisms by which white people face added hurdles in society:

-Affirmative action

-College admissions, which penalize whites and Asians to the benefit of blacks and Hispanics

- literally this entire cultural milieu that blames whites for everything and retroactively justifies violence against them

That is why white privilege is nonsense.

Meanwhile jews have several orders of magnitude more wealth and power than their population size would suggest, which they use to treat the west like a colonial site of value extraction and to demonize and undermine the white societies therein.

[Anonymous No.19962394]

>>19961554
No, he's right.
Even "Nigga nigga nigga nigga nigga. I'm 100% nigga." Is real poetry. The repetition is poetic and the final "nigga" adds emphasis to the line.

[Anonymous No.19962522]

>>19962266
>they make up over 60% of American billionaires
can you back up this claim?

[Anonymous No.19962526]

>>19962316
have you actually looked at it?

[Anonymous No.19962545]

The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence DUnbar

[Anonymous No.19962569]

>>19960152
I don't think there is. There's certainly a lot of YA material, but no Carroll-type classic that buttresses poetry and math with a silly and fun frame narrative. Lots of shit antedates Alice (Perrault and Jean de La Bruyèr, for example), but nothing in the "black corpus" even comes close to resembling it.

[Anonymous No.19962668]

>>19962526
Literally yes

https://jewishcontributions.com/infotables/

[Anonymous No.19962698]

>>19962316
Books with this feel?

[Anonymous No.19962755]

>>19962522
If you plug "site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki "American billionaires" "Jews"|"Jewish"" into google, you get 580 hits, out of 923 entries in the "American billionaires" category. (62.01%)

Here's what comes up when you try the same thing with other categories:
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American media executives" "Jews"|"Jewish" (81 entries out of 157)
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American hedge fund managers" "Jews"|"Jewish"(97 entries of 197)
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American businesspeople convicted of crimes" "Jews"|"Jewish" (76 entries of 213)
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American people convicted of tax crimes" "Jews"|"Jewish" (106 entries of 217)
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American defectors to the Soviet Union" "Jews"|"Jewish" (18 entries of 18 )
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American spies for the Soviet Union" "Jews"|"Jewish" (46 entries of 132)
site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American Communists" "Jews"|"Jewish" (235 entries of 336)

The numbers might not be perfectly accurate but if the truth is anywhere near that ballpark it's still unusual.

[Anonymous No.19962779]

[Anonymous No.19962817]

>>19959226
Cane by Jean Toomer

[Anonymous No.19962868]

>>19962266
Honestly, if it's 2% vs 60%, even with nepotism turned all the way up, i'd say it looks like they're just genuinely more intelligent and capable than us.

[Anonymous No.19962926]

>>19962868
No one else can keep up that teamwork against the rest seriously. Too dumb to know themselves. Jews know themselves keenly. KEENLY.

[Anonymous No.19962944]

>>19962868
retarded point, with nepotism turned all the way up it would literally be 100%

[Anonymous No.19962945]

>>19962868
It's possible. You could always convert to Judaism, join them and marry a big brain qt. "Jew" is a much looser category than most other ethnic groups, anyone can become a Jew.

[Anonymous No.19962963]

>>19962945
That's a coca cola bonafide registered trademark genetic Jew you can draw in any country and call a Jew. Sorry but Obongo Ubuntu Martinez is not going to strike anyone as Jewish because he has a yamaka on for 10 minutes a year.

[Anonymous No.19962988]

>>19962963
You can be a Jew without being biologically Jewish. Obongon Ubuntu Martinez could make friends at the synagogue and make Jewish babies if he wished.

[Anonymous No.19963001]

>>19959226
White Fragility. I thought it was going to be a book trolling whitey, turned into a concise expose on black culture (especially in juxtaposition to white culture) and its propensity to fail its community. Its actually fairly based and I agree with it. Dear White People was really good too. About black self segregation (and how its destined to fail, as well as how wokeness is destined to fail) in the end.

[Anonymous No.19963034]

>>19959566
This. His book easily mogs modern-day Black authors with its immense page length and fantastic plot.

[Anonymous No.19963037]

>>19963001
White fragility was written by a white girl.

[Anonymous No.19963043]

>>19963034
This nigga was a mutt, he wasn't a full blown BLACK king.

[Anonymous No.19963052]

>>19963043
If you are American, then you have to apply your own rule and call him Black. Also Pushkin.

[Anonymous No.19963320]

>>19959226
The Right Way to Pick Cotton by Negradora Shaboon

[Anonymous No.19963707]

>>19959226
Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.19963764]

>>19959226
I actually really enjoyed "Things Fall Apart" by whatever the fuck his name is. Though that's probably the most entry level African literature there is.

[Anonymous No.19963858]

>>19959566
Pushkin

[Anonymous No.19963865]

>>19960129
he has nappy hair

[Anonymous No.19963880]

>>19959226
Why would the author's skin color matter? Just read good books, for fuck's sake.

[Anonymous No.19964049]

>white people
>write about everything
>black people
>write about being black
>promoting laziness

[Anonymous No.19964947]

>>19963043
>Imposing filthy Americanisms on Monsieur Dumas
I SPIT AT THEE, DISGUSTING YANKEE.

[Anonymous No.19964993]

>>19959226
I beg of you, please learn any language besides English.
Please become less of an uncultured swine.

[Anonymous No.19965003]

>>19964049
Machado, Pushkin, Dumas wrote about many things.