What to Read After The color complex
Readers who loved The color complex by Kathy Russell keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The color complex is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The color complex
Our Kind of People
The hip hop generation
The evidence of things not seen
Hair Story
Black Bourgeoisie
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
Betsey Brown
Blackballed
Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks
Black Pain
Losing the race
Spook Who Sat by Door
The Women Of Brewster Place
When chickenheads come home to roost
Ain't I a Woman
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The mis-education of the Negro
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race
Flyy girl
Wild seed
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Assata
Cheaters
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf