Best african american historical books according to redditors

1. Hmmmm.
   
   
2. There's something extra galling about this being announced when Underground is in limbo and probably off the air forever. HBO has infinite money, why not pick it up or develop a new show with its showrunners?
   
   
3. Let's get real, we all know exactly how this show is going to go. We're hitting the limits of the white American male imagination, and it all just feels so lazy, tired, and played-out. When do we get an adaptation of Lion's Blood or High Aztech or The Yiddish Policeman's Union? Why not option this? Why not do one of those feminist utopia stories where there are few/no men?

If you're interested, there's a really great set of novellas called Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen (here's the audio books [1] [2] for free -- and legal).

They're both relatively short (a little over 100 pages apiece) about an American woman who was biracial (Larsen was biracial herself) and could pass for black or white.

Quicksand is about one such woman trying to find a community where she felt comfortable -- one community ashamed her, one community seemed too radical, another seemed to deify her. This one particularly reminded me of what you said here.

Passing is about two such women who knew each other growing up, but while one stayed with the black community and grew up there, the other hid her ancestry and married a white man (and quite a racist one). They meet up years and years later and discover that they are a bit jealous of aspects of each other's lives.

What makes these books great is they don't pass any judgments. They just examine an extremely complex issue from several very honest perspectives.

Of course, these might be a bit too old-hat for you, but I'd recommend them to anyone. They're quick reads and really interesting.

Boom. Sailor of the Skysea. Read it. Live it. Love it.

check out Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart. they're an alternate history where Africa is in charge in the 1800s instead of Europe. The Aztecs are in power in South America, and in North America the black African colonists have Irish slaves. one of the things it showed me was all the ways we use "light" and "white" as synonyms for good in our everyday expressions. it's not just a thought experiment, it has fighting, politics, steampunky gadgets, and interesting charaters.

> Few writers have shifted political discourse in recent years quite as much as Ta-Nehisi Coates. 

> His seminal longform essay “The Case For Reparations” single-handedly forced a nationwide discussion about reparations for African-American descendants of slaves. After that, his memoir “Between the World and Me” was broadly hailed as the most thought-provoking meditation on race in the U.S. in an entire generation. And there’s over a decade of columns he wrote for The Atlantic that gave rise to innumerable other conversations.

> But since 2018, Coates has taken a step away from non-fiction writing. He's focused on other projects, including completing his first novel, "The Water Dancer," which was released in September. The novel tells the tale of Hiram Walker, who was born into slavery in Virginia, and who comes to realize he possesses supernatural powers that could help him and others gain freedom.

> On Monday, Nov. 4, Coates will be in Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center discussing the book. WLRN briefly talked with him in advance of the appearance.

Leah’s Story by C.M. Huddleston

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Male Rising by Jonathan Edelstein

I don't doubt it. But Be careful, I've seen many books with an ambitious plot fall flat because the authors spent too much time trying to show how strange/ambitious their story idea is but neglected the characters and plot, rendering them flat and inactive. Not saying it'll happen to you, but it's an inadvertent pitfall when authors come at writing with this approach.

If you haven't already, I'll study these books for references.

Wicked Saints

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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