The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Colson Whitehead. The Underground Railroad. New York City: Doubleday, 2016.
  • Schulz, Kathryn. “The Perilous Lure of theUnderground Railroad.” The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/the-perilous-lure-of-the-underground-railroad.

  • Dischinger, Matthew. “States of Possibility in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.” The Global South, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 82–99.

  • Bial, Raymond. The Underground Railroad. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999.

  • “Colson Whitehead’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Is A Literal Train To Freedom.” Fresh Air, NPR, 8 Aug. 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/08/08/489168232/colson-whiteheads-underground-railroad-is-a-literal-train-to-freedom.

  • Sekora, John. “Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative.” Callaloo, no. 32, 1987, pp. 482–515.

  • Goodheart, Adam. “The Secret History of the Underground Railroad.” The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-secret-history-of-the-underground-railroad/384966/.

  • Vásquez, Juan Gabriel. “In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor.” The New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/books/review/colson-whitehead-underground-railroad.html.
  • Kakutani, Michiko. “Review: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and Its Toxic Legacy.” The New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/books/review-the-underground-railroad-colson-whitehead.html.

  • Colson Whitehead. "Bio." April 15, 2019. <https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/new-page>.