Title: Birthright
Description: The protagonist of this novel is an educated mulatto male who tries to survive in a small Southern town in the early twentieth century. In a biography of Stribling, William E. Smith states: "Many years after its publication, Stribling identified his work as 'the first realistic novel of Negroes written in this country since Opie Read produced My Young Master.'" In 1924, the famous black director Oscar Micheaux adapted Birthright into a silent film.
Subjects: Racially mixed people, Fiction, Southern States, Race relations, African Americans