Teacher Guide

If Beale Street Could Talk Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

For more novels by Baldwin, see: Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953); Giovanni's Room (1956); Another Country (1962); Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968); and Just Above My Head (1979)

For novels with similar themes concerning Black life in America, please see: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi; The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor; The Street by Ann Petry; A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes; Democracy in Black by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.; Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

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