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If you loved Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis, 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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Top related books to Shifting Through Neutral

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Shifting Through Neutral.

The Grandissimes A Story of Creole Life — George Washington Cable

The Grandissimes A Story of Creole Life

George Washington Cable

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

Daddy Was a Number Runner — Louise Meriwether

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Louise Meriwether

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

Iola Leroy — Frances Harper

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

There is a River The Black Struggle for Freedom in America — Vincent Harding

There is a River The Black Struggle for Freedom in America

Vincent Harding

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

The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley — Phillis Wheatley

The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

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

Spreading My Wings — L. A. Jenkins

Spreading My Wings

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

Free! Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad : Based on True Stories — Lorene Cary

Free! Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad : Based on True Stories

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

CROWNED Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora — Kahran Bethencourt

CROWNED Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora

Kahran Bethencourt

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

Counterpoint — J. Alfred Phelps

J. Alfred Phelps

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

Home To Harlem — Claude McKay

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

I Got Somebody in Staunton Stories — William Henry Lewis

I Got Somebody in Staunton Stories

William Henry Lewis

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

The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales — Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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

Sweat — Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

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

The Spook Who Sat by the Door — Sam Greenlee

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

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

What Mama Said An Epic Drama — Osonye Tess Onwueme

What Mama Said An Epic Drama

Osonye Tess Onwueme

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

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (Including Hagar’s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood) — Pauline Hopkins

The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (Including Hagar’s Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood)

Pauline Hopkins

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

Lost in the City – 20th anniversary edition Stories — Edward P. Jones

Lost in the City – 20th anniversary edition Stories

Edward P. Jones

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

Annie John — Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

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

A Collection Of Stories — Deborah Mboya

A Collection Of Stories

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

Anemia — B. A. Floyd

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

Cruel Fiction — Wendy Trevino

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

The Known World — Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of African American & Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, American — the same threads that run through Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis. Among the authors featured: George Washington Cable, Louise Meriwether, Frances Harper, Vincent Harding, and others.

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