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A picture of the front cover of George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin
In the Castle of My Skin
A photo of the novel Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
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White Teeth
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Women Authors

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen
Frances Harper
Frances Harper

Novels by Region

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Black British Literature
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West Indian Literature
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French literature

Novels by Literary Movement

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The Harlem Renaissance
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Naturalism
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Romanticism

Novels by Century

Mary Prince
19th Century
Phillis Wheatley
18th Century
Juan de Pareja
16th Century

Novels by Subject

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Whiteness as ever-shifting identity
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Blackness and its diversity
Waverly
Nationalism and National Identity

Histories & Commentaries

Afropean
Afropean
The Black Count
The Black Count
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The 1619 Project
A photo of the book Playing in the Dark
Playing in the Dark