Othello
William Shakespeare · Early Modern · Tragedy
Subject guide
Race
Explore 52 works associated with Race in The Western Canon. This page is generated from reviewed catalog classifications and links directly to each featured work.
Featured works
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois · Modern · Essays, sociology
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · Modern · Novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · Postwar · Novel
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · Contemporary · Novel / essays
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
Southern Horrors
Ida B. Wells · Modern · Journalism / social criticism
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mark Twain · 19th Century · Novel / satire
The Red Record
Ida B. Wells · Modern · Journalism / social criticism
The Philadelphia Negro
W. E. B. Du Bois · Modern · History / sociology
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington · Modern · Autobiography / social thought
Selected Poems
Claude McKay · Harlem Renaissance · Poetry / novel
Cane
Jean Toomer · Harlem Renaissance · Mixed-form fiction
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes · Harlem Renaissance · Poetry / stories
Home to Harlem
Claude McKay · Harlem Renaissance · Poetry / novel
Quicksand
Nella Larsen · Harlem Renaissance · Novel
Passing
Nella Larsen · Harlem Renaissance · Novel
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Light in August
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Black Reconstruction in America
W. E. B. Du Bois · Modern · History / sociology
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
The Wild Palms
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Native Son
Richard Wright · Modern · Novel / memoir
Dusk of Dawn
W. E. B. Du Bois · Modern · History / sociology
The Hamlet
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
Black Boy
Richard Wright · Modern · Novel / memoir
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes · Harlem Renaissance · Poetry / stories
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon · Postcolonial · Political theory
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin · Modern · Essays / fiction
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin · Modern · Essays / fiction
Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin · Modern · Essays / fiction
Selected Poems
Langston Hughes · Harlem Renaissance · Poetry / stories
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry · Modern · Drama
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon · Postcolonial · Political theory
The Reivers
William Faulkner · Modernism · Novel
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · Modern · Essays / fiction
Shadow and Act
Ralph Ellison · Modern · Novel / essays
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
Sula
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Alice Walker · Contemporary · Novel / essays
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
Jazz
Toni Morrison · Contemporary · Novel
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · Contemporary · Speculative fiction
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Contemporary · Novel
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead · Contemporary · Novel