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Race-related controversies in literature

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
The Chronicles of Narnia
series of children's fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis, 1950–1956
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 novel by Mark Twain
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
To Kill a Mockingbird
novel by Harper Lee
Gone with the Wind
1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell
And Then There Were None
1939 novel by Agatha Christie
Taras Bulba
novella by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol
Daniel handler
American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket (born 1970)
Peter Pan
play and novel by James Matthew Barrie
Memoirs of a Geisha
1997 novel by Arthur Golden
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
1838 novel by Edgar Allan Poe
The White Man's Burden
poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling
Fu Manchu
supervillain in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century, based off ethnic stereotypes
The Secret Doctrine
non-fiction work by Helena Blavatsky
Charlie Chan
fictional character
Thomas Dixon Jr.
American Baptist minister, lawyer, politician and white supremacist writer (1864–1946)
Robert M. Price
American theologian
1619 project
2019 project by the New York Times on the history of slavery
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
children's novel by Charles Kingsley
Ibram X. Kendi
American author and historian
Exodus
novel by Leon Uris (1958)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
novel, and the first of the Doctor Dolittle Books
The Camp of the Saints
1973 novel by Jean Raspail
The Story of Little Black Sambo
1899 book
Asa Earl Carter
American speech writer and novelist (1925–1979)
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
1897 novel by Joseph Conrad
Eleanor & Park
2012 novel by Rainbow Rowell
Debt of Honor
1994 novel by Tom Clancy
The Good Bargain
folk tale by the Brothers Grimm
The Hate U Give
2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas
The Jew Among Thorns
Grimm fairy tale
The Horror at Red Hook
short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)
Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the Byronic hero, or the tortured antihero, whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him.
Joseph Boyden
Canadian writer
Murzynek Bambo
1935 poem written by Julian Tuwim
Marie Sophie Hingst
German blogger and confabulator (1987-2019)
The Education of Little Tree
1976 novel by Forrest Carter
The Confessions of Nat Turner
novel by William Styron
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
novel by Sherman Alexie
The Clansman
1905 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr.
[New Life+] Young Again in Another World
Japanese light novel series
Medusa's Coil
short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
Scrambled Eggs Super!
1953 children's book by Dr. Seuss
O Presidente Negro
1926 novel by Monteiro Lobato
Hitler Youth Quex
1932 novel
Emília
character from Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
Farnham's Freehold
1964 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
1937 children's book by Dr. Seuss
Tolkien and race
Attitudes to race in the fictional works of J. R. R. Tolkien