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
Corregidora
Aberrations in black
Ugly feelings
Darker Nations
Cruel optimism
Slavery and social death
The black Atlantic
Disidentifications
In the Break
Golden Gulag
Laboring women
The salt eaters
Basquiat
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Queering the Color Line
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the life of a free black in a two-story white house, North
Medicine stories
Sundown Towns
Incognegro
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Sexual Cultures)
Notebook of a return to the native land
Silences
Agents of Repression
Black Against Empire