Literary Themes For Students: Race and Prejudice
Overviews:
Race and Prejudice in American Literature
Race and Prejudice in British Literature
Race and Prejudice in World Literature
Major Works:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain)
Angels in America (by Tony Kushner)
A Room of One's Own (by Virginia Woolf)
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (by Ernest J. Gaines)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (by Malcolm X and Alex Haley)
The Awakening (by Kate Chopin)
Blacks (by Gwendolyn Brooks)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (by Dee Brown)
Ceremony (by Leslie Marmon Silko)
The Color Purple (by Alice Walker)
Cry, the Beloved Country (by Alan Paton)
The Diary of a Young Girl (by Anne Frank)
"Everything that Rises Must Converge" (by Flannery O'Connor)
Farewell to Manzanar (by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)
Flowers for Algernon (by Daniel Keyes)
"A Good Day" (by Primo Levi)
Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad)
The House of the Spirits (by Isabel Allende)
"I Have a Dream" (by Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (by Maya Angelou)
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South
Africa (by Mark Mathabane)
"King of the Bingo Game" (by Ralph Ellison)
The Merchant of Venice (by William Shakespeare)
Native Son (by Richard Wright)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (by Langston Hughes)
Nisei Daughter (by Monica Sone)
A Passage to India (by E.M. Forester)
A Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (by Mildred D. Taylor)
The Souls of Black Folk (by W. E. B. Du Bois)
To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (by Harriet Beecher Stowe)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (byMary Wollstonecraft)
"What You Pawn I Will Redeem" (by Sherman Alexie)
Subthemes:
Class
Ethnicity
Gender
Genocide
Religion
Segregation
Sexual Orientation
Slavery
Stigma
Other Features:
Literary/History chronology
What Do I Read Next? (annotated list of more lit works on theme)
Media Adaptations (annotated list of artistic and media works on theme)