A New Canon

If I were in charge of rewriting the canon, it would look a lot different than it does today. Now that we have a black family at the center of the world, it's time that we shifted our reading material, too.

Enjoy,
Iquo.

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Achebe Things Fall Apart
Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
Ali Infidel
Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
Beah A Long Way Gone
Bell Gospel Choirs
Cafalli-Sforza Genes, Peoples and Languages
Dangarembga Nervous Conditions
De Beauvoir The Second Sex
DuBois Souls of Black Folk
Ellison Invisible Man
Fanon Black Skin White Masks
Fanon The Wretched of the Earth
Giddings When and Where I Enter
Guy-Sheftall Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Hanh Being Peace
Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost
hooks Sisters of the Yam
hooks Black Looks: Race and Representation
Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jacobs, Equiano, Douglas The Classic Slave Narratives
James The Black Jacobins
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marx The Communist Manifesto
Milton Paradise Lost
Morrison The Bluest Eye
Ngugi Weep Not, Child
Okri The Famished Road
Plath The Bell Jar
Sapphire Push
Saramago Blindness
Sembene God's Bits of Wood
Soyinka Ake
Thurman Jesus and the Disinherited
Walker The Colored Purple
Williams The Destruction of Black Civilization
Wilson The Piano Lesson