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If you loved American Hunger by Richard Wright, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in African American & Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, American, and Social Science.

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Black Boy (American Hunger) : a Record of Childhood and Youth — Richard Wright

Black Boy (American Hunger) : a Record of Childhood and Youth

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Woodholme — DeWayne Wickham

DeWayne Wickham

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Roots — Alex Haley

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Spook who Sat by the Door A Novel — Sam Greenlee

The Spook who Sat by the Door A Novel

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Warriors Don’t Cry Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock — Melba Beals

Warriors Don’t Cry Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Muse-echo Blues — Xam Wilson Cartiér

Muse-echo Blues

Xam Wilson Cartiér

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Fire Shut Up in My Bones — Charles M. Blow

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Charles M. Blow

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Army Life in a Black Regiment — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

I’ve Known Rivers Lives of Loss and Liberation — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

I’ve Known Rivers Lives of Loss and Liberation

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

We Were Always Free The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: a 200-Year Family History — T. O. Madden, Jr.

We Were Always Free The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: a 200-Year Family History

T. O. Madden, Jr.

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Why the SUN Rises The Faces and Stories of Women in Education — Doran Gresham

Why the SUN Rises The Faces and Stories of Women in Education

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Black Women for Beginners — S. Pearl Sharp

Black Women for Beginners

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Forbidden Fruit Love Stories from the Underground Railroad — Betty DeRamus

Forbidden Fruit Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Thin Black Line True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America’s Meanest Streets — Hugh Holton

The Thin Black Line True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America’s Meanest Streets

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Same River Twice — Alice Walker

The Same River Twice

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America — Michael Eric Dyson

The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Uplifting the Women and the Race The Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs — Karen A. Johnson

Uplifting the Women and the Race The Educational Philosophies and Social Activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs

Karen A. Johnson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Black Leadership Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights — Manning Marable

Black Leadership Four Great American Leaders and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Manning Marable

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi — Wright Thompson

The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Next to the Color Line Gender, Sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois — Susan Kay Gillman

Next to the Color Line Gender, Sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Susan Kay Gillman

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

After Life My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom — Alice Marie Johnson

After Life My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom

Alice Marie Johnson

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

Slave Culture Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America — Sterling Stuckey

Slave Culture Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America

Sterling Stuckey

Themes: African American & Black Studies • Ethnic Studies • American

If American Hunger by Richard Wright is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by African American & Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, American and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, DeWayne Wickham, Alex Haley, and others.

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