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Writing about the street life is nothing new. Donald Goines set the stage for writing from the African American perspective about the hardship and pain of living life on the inner city streets. Now some thirty years later a new generation of writers are delighting readers as they put pen to paper and weave fascinating stories about life on the gritty streets in places like New York, Miami, Charlotte and Cleveland. This new genre called hip-hop, urban fiction or street lit has awaken a new, younger generation of readers giving them the opportunity to identify with the larger than life characters they read about. So if you find yourself bored with the romances, mysteries and science fiction consider something new and fresh. Try out some of these hip-hop favorites.
Recommended Books from Hip-Hop Literature
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois was published one hundred years ago! I first read it more than seventy years ago and now I read at least portions of it each year. There is something in it for most readers, most of the time. I especially like his essays "Of Our Spiritual Stirrings", "Of the Meaning of Progress", and "Of the Faith of Our Fathers." He closes with "Hear My Cry, O God the Reader, vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness." It did not! |
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John Hope Franklin is the Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. Here is an excerpt from his review of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois:
