What to Read After Scenes of Subjection
Readers who loved Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya V. Hartman keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Scenes of Subjection 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 Scenes of Subjection
Ugly Feelings
Corregidora
Aberrations in Black
Golden Gulag
In the Break
Slavery and Social Death
Disidentifications
The black Atlantic
Cruel Optimism
Darker Nations
Agents of Repression
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Black Marxism
Body and Soul
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Queering the Color Line
Black Against Empire
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North
Sundown Towns
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)
Incognegro
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Laboring Women
Silences