Race matters

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

1903

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman)

Kate Chopin

1981

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

1900

Othello

William Shakespeare

1794

Burmese Days

George Orwell

1934

The house behind the cedars

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

1900

Cane

Jean Toomer

1923

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1976