What to Read After The signifying monkey
Readers who loved The signifying monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The signifying monkey 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 signifying monkey
The intuitionist
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus
Black Indians
Rosa Lee
PowerNomics
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Black no more
Philadelphia fire
Playing in the dark
Is marriage for white people?
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
The Cross of Redemption
Clotel
African holistic health
Inside a thug's heart
There is confusion
Eight Men
The Cornel West reader
Texts and contexts
Banana Bottom (The Black Classic Series from X Press)
Hip Hop Matters
No disrespect
Black looks
Specters of Marx