What to Read After Slavery and Social Death
Readers who loved Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Slavery and Social Death 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 Slavery and Social Death
Scenes of Subjection
Lose Your Mother
White Over Black
Incognegro
Laboring Women
Saltwater Slavery
On the Postcolony
The Half Has Never Been Told
Black Marxism
Inhuman Bondage
In the Break
Unclaimed Experience
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
Runaway Slaves
There ain't no black in the Union Jack
The black Atlantic
The Black Jacobins
Quicksand ; and, Passing
Open City
The Souls of Black Folk
Native Son
The New Jim Crow
Song of Solomon
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass