books to help me deal /w being black any good black authors,

ralph ellison - invisible man
everything by james baldwin

nobody ever reached Cam's level so you might as well just stop there.

>>8649171
Ugh, why do white people hold up someone as black as Pushkin as being the best black lit has to offer? It's just co-opting blackness for you own; a literary colonization

Books by Toni Morrison

The problem with black people and literature is just the culture right now. It's not like white people have literary race points. Black people just have a culture of rap and gang activity and clothing. It's the equivalent to white trash

That said, it's hard to find a lot of black authors. Invisible man was good though.

t. Spic

>>8649195
OP said good, not singers

Chinua Achebe is OK.

Waka Flocka Flame, Pushkin, Thomas Sowell, Alexandre Dumas, the egyptian Book of the Dead, Chief Keef and Amelia Bassano

Black rednecks and white liberals by Thomas Sowell

>>8649268
Just about to recommend this too. Good book.

Obligatory Iceberg Slim - Pimp reply

Why do you feel that being black is something you must 'deal with' ?

>>8649161
Iceberg Slim - Pimp

Zadie Smith
Richard Wright
Samuel Delaney

>>8649346
this. also malcolm x and sanyika "monster kody" shakur.

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>>8649161

African Poetry has a rich tradition.

>>8649339

Because his own culture hates his very interest in literature. The only way it's acceptable is if he writes books about oppression and race.

>>8649427

James Baldwin faced the same problems. Blacks disliked him since he was gay, atheist, and wrote outside the "black experience". Whites disliked him since he was gay, atheist, and black.

>>8649437
And funnily enough he's the best black writer to have ever lived.

>>8649339
because it is

wake up

>>8649541
I'm not denying that it is, just looking for an explanation.

Sorry pal, it's terminal.

I mean, you don't have to be a genius to see that everywhere blacks go property values plummet and crime follows. Countries governed by blacks are just big garbage heaps.

Just go learn to sprint or something, books aren't for you. You can be really good at a sport or something though, or maybe even a rapper.

>>8649161
blood meridian

>>8649201
What does that mean??

>>8649822
Jesus this place can be so awful, I wish there was a standard here

For theatre I would recommend reading August Wilson. There's good shit in his works if you pay attention.

I'd tell you to take some of his more extreme opinions with some salt. He had a shit childhood that apparently he never got over.

>>8651470
if u have thin skin then leave

Thomas Sowell - The Quest for Cosmic Justice

I am a Japanese Writer by Dany Laferriere
probably Ishmael Reed

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>>8649161

>>8649822
cw: disease, poverty
>it's terminal
>property values plummet
Could you really please include cws for disease and poverty for content like this, if you post the same sort of thing in the future?