Fellow nogs lurking Yea Forums are the "black classics" worth reading? You know what I mean, the "native sons" the Invisible man" the "Go tell it on a mountain"s of the world.
What about contemporary black authorship is it anything beyond the sjw/slave narrative garbage the book stores promote heavily?
Not a nig but native son is definitely worth reading
Fifty years ago we would have you hanging upside down with a fucking fork up your ass
the only nig book worth reading is mumbo jumbo by ishmael reed. invisible man is terrible,,
OP, we had a year ago an interesting thread you might wanna check out:
warosu.org
Also, might Thomas Chatterton Williams be what you are looking for?
why are you reading along racial lines
based.... i guess??
Invisible Man was an achievement and the short fiction of Langston Highes displays actual writing ability. Every single other blackity blackness Must Read Novel is a complete waste of time. The moderns, like MacArthur genius Ta-Nehisi Coates, are a bad joke. Read novels that will enable you to talk intelligently to others (therefore, forget Toni Morrison) and become expert something besides your skin color.
Take the Achebe pill
OP regarding the black classic well I'm going to be honest my favorite books are Notes from the Underground and A confederacy of Dunces. I managed to miss the black lit in school and since then I've been half afraid of reading them and coming to the realization they are over-hyped trash.
Seconded. I should revisit Native Son sometime, last time I read it was in high school and I found it to be really compelling to read from start to finish, although I can't say I remember much of it off the top of my head. Protag (black) suffocates white girl and gets sent to court to be sentenced to Death for it is basically how the plot went as far as I remember, but I'll be damned if Richard Wright's prose wasn't compelling to read (at the time).