The blacker the berry

Wallace Thurman

Translated by Domingo Ottati earliest edition we have, 1970 Il Gulliver, 2021 paperback 174 pages

African/American library

One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty. Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinne...

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Editions we hold

La mora più nera paperback · 2021 · Il Gulliver · 174 pages · 9798717192941
The blacker the berry edition · 2008 · Dover Publications · 146 pages · 9780486461342
Blacker the Berry edition · 2001 · Rebound by Sagebrush · 221 pages · 9780613377195
The blacker the berry-- edition · 1996 · Scribner Paperback Fiction · 221 pages
The Blacker The Berry (Black Classics) paperback · 1996 · The X Press · 213 pages · 9781874509134
The blacker the berry edition · 1972 · AMS Press · 262 pages
The blacker the berry ... edition · 1970 · Collier Books · 231 pages · 9780020547501

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