I realized recently that I haven’t read nearly enough black conservative writings, and several Fifdom book clubbers agreed that we should consider a sampling down the line. Here, in no particular order, is a list of possibilities, organized by author.
I have not included books by conservative politicians and other commentators unless it seems that there is some intellectual heft to them, which is rare.
Authors
Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Thomas Sowell
Discrimination and Disparities
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Shelby Steele
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Coleman Hughes
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America (Forthcoming, 2024)
Jason Riley
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
False Black Power? (New Threats to Freedom Series)
Walter Williams
Up from the Projects: An Autobiography
Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
Glenn Loury
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: With a New Preface (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America
John McWhorter
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Race-Beyond-Crisis-America/dp/1592402704/
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race
What do you think?
Any major authors I have missed? Any important books? Would any of the books listed above be a great Book Club Pick? Comment below, or in the Whatsapp group.