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
Lose Your Mother
Scenes of Subjection
In the Break
White Over Black
Incognegro
Laboring Women
Black Marxism
Saltwater Slavery
On the Postcolony
The Half Has Never Been Told
Inhuman Bondage
Runaway Slaves
Unclaimed Experience
There ain't no black in the Union Jack
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers
The black Atlantic
The Black Jacobins
Quicksand ; and, Passing
Open City
The Souls of Black Folk
A Lesson Before Dying
Native Son
The New Jim Crow
Song of Solomon