Don't Miss Lists and Other Reading Resources

African American Culture: A Retrospective Reading List to 2007

Arts and Music

Barnett, LaShondra Katrice, ed. I Got Thunder: Black Women's Songwriters on Their Craft.Thunder's Mouth, 2007. 782.42082 B264i
Bearden, Romare. A History of African - American Artists: From 1792 to the Present. Pantheon Books, 1993. 704.0396073 B38h.
Beckwith, Carol and Fisher, Angela. Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography. National Geographic, 2004
Black Art Ancestral Legacy: the African Impulse in African - American Art. Dallas Museum of Art, 1989. 709.039607307473 B561b.Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African - American Presence in American Quilts. Kentucky Quilt Project, 1992. 746.9708996073 B431a.

Bogle, Donald. Bright Boulevards: the Story of Black Hollywood. One World Ballantine Books, 2005. 791.43028097396073 B634b
Bowman, Rob. Soulville U.S.A: The Story of STAX Records. Schirmer Trade Books, 1997. 781.6430976819 B684s
Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans. WW. Norton, 2006
Brown, James. I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul. Penguin, 2005. 782.421644092 B813bi
A Century of African American Art: the Paul R. Jones Collection. ed. by Amalia K. Amaki.. Rutgers University, 2004 704.0396073007474932 C333c
Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos: the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop. Basic Civitas, 2007
Cobb, William Jelani. To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. NYU Press, 2007
Condon, Bill. Dreamgirls: A Portrait of the Film. WW. Norton, 2007
Cook, Richard. It's About that Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record. Oxford University Press, 2007 788.92165092 D295ci
Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: a Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Hyperion, 2005. 878.871166092 H385c
Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. Hyperion, 1995. 781.64309 D292h.
Douglas, Aaron. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist. Yale University Press, 2007. 741.6092 D745d
Enwezor, Okwui. Snap Judgements: New Postions in Contemporary African Photography. Steidl, 2006
50 Cent (Musician). From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens. Pocket Books, 2005. 782.421649092 F466f
Glass, Barbara S. African American Dance: An Illustrated History. McFarland, 2006.
Goudsouzian, Aram. Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 791.43028092 P756g
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987, 1994. 704.039607307471 H226ha.
Henkes, Robert. The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artistis of the Twentieth Century. McFarland, 1993. 704.04209730904 H389a.
Jefferson, Margo. On Michael Jackson. Pantheon, 2006. 782. 42166092 J136jo
Leonard, Hal. The Miles Davis Reader: Interview and Features from Downbeat Magazine. 2007. 788.92165092 D295a
Lichtenstein, Grace. Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans. Norton, 1993. 780.976335 L617m.
Littleton, Darryl. Black Comedian on Black Comedy. Applause, 2006.
Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. Pantheon, 1993. 781.643097624 L837l.
Magee, Jeffrey. The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz. Oxford University Press, 2005. 791.65092 H383m
McElroy, Guy C. African American Artists, 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection. Smithsonian, 1989. 704.03930730074 M154a.
McGee, Julie L. David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar. Pomegranate, 2006. 709.2 D833m
Manning, Frankie. Frankie Manning: The Ambassafor of Lindy Hop. Temple, 2007. 792.8092 M316m
The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine. ed. by Frank Alkyer, Hal Leonard Books, 2007. 788.92165092 D295a
Morgan, Thomas. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African-American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930. Elliott & Clark, 1992. 781.6408996073 M823f.
Murray, Albert. Stomping the Blues. McGraw Hill, 1976. 784 M96s.
Nathan, David. Soulful Divas. Waston-Guptill/Billboard, 1999. 782.42164092396073 N195s
Parks, Gordon. A Hungry Heart: A Memoir. Atria, 2005. 770.92 P236pa
Parks, Gordon. Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective. Bulfinch Press, 1997. 770.92 P236ph
Patton, Sharon F. African-American Art. Oxford University Press, 1998. 704.0396073 P278a
Pearson, Felicia "Snoop" & David Ritz. Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. Grand Central, 2007. 791.45028092 P317p
Powell, Richard J. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historical Black Colleges and Universities.. Addison Gallery of American Art, 1999. 704.03960730074 P871t.
Ratliff, Ben. Coltrane: The Story of Sound . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007 788.7165092 C722r
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Univ. Press of New England, 1994. 782.42164 R72b.
Sarig, Ron. Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and the Rise of the Dirty South Hip-Hop. Da Capo, 2007
Sarr, Betye. Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Momment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2005. 709.2 Sa12s
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. ed. by Paul Arnet and William Arnet. Tinwood Press, 2007. 745.08996073075 So83s v.1 Oversize Books
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W.W. Norton, 1997. 780.8996073 So88m3.
Stuckey, Sterling. Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African-American Art in History. Oxford Univ. Press, 1994. 700.8996073 St93g.
Taha, Halima. Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas. Crown, 1998. 760.8996075 T13c.
Tracy, Robert. Ailey Spirit: The Journey of an American Dance Company. Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 2004. 792.80973 Ai52a
Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. Amistad, 2004. 782.421643092 J636w
Wallace, Michele. Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory. Verso, 1990. 305.48896073 W155i.
Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. Pantheon, 1995. 700.899607307471 W337h.
Werner, Craig Hansen. A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, & The Soul of America. Plume, 1998. 780.8996073 W495c.

Biography

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Chelsea House, 1969. 818.5409 An43zm.
Ashe, Arthur. Days of Grace: A Memoir. Knopf, 1993. 796.342092 As35a.
Bell, Madison. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography. Pantheon, 2007.. 972. 9403092 T649b
Bragg, Janet Harmon. Soaring Above Setbacks: Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg, African Aviator. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 629.13092 B73b.
Brazile, Donna. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 324.7092 B739b
Brown, Cupcake. A Piece of Cake: A Memoir. Crown, 2005. 979.498500496073092 B812b
Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A True Story of Family, Race, and Secrets. Little, Brown, 2007. 813.54 B828zb
Campbell, James. Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank. Scribner, 1995. 813.52 W935zc.
Cary, Lorene. Black Ice. Knopf, 1991. 373.18296073 C259b.
Danticat, Edwidge. Brother I'm Dying. Knopf, 2007. 813.54 D236zd
Davis, Thulani. My Confederate Kinfolk: A Freedwoman Confronts Her Roots. Basic Civitas, 2006. 929.208996073 D298m
De Young, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. Knopf, 2006.
De Veax, Alexis. Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde. W.W. Norton, 2004. 811.54 L884d
Frady, Marshall. Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson. Random House, 1996. 973.927092 J135f.
Franklin, John Hope. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Farrar, 2005. 973.04960730092 F854f
Franklin, V.P. Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African American Intellectual Tradition. Scribner, 1995. 920.009296073 F854l.
Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Morrow, 1986. 323.40924 K585g.
Gates, Henry Louis. Colored People: A Memoir. Vintage Books, 1995. 975.400496073092 G223co.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieh Century. Pantheon, 1991. 920.009296073 B38b.
Goldman, Roger L and Gallen, David. Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All. Carroll & Graf, 1992. 347.732634 M358go.
Govenar, Alan. Untold Glory. Broadway, 2007.
Haley, Alex. Roots. Doubleday, 1976. 929.20973 H137ha.
Hamilton, Charles V. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma. Antheneum, 1991. 973.92092 P871h.
Hurston, Lucy and The Estate of Zora Neale Hurston. Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Doubleday, 2004. 813.52 H946zhs
Jasper, Kenji. The House on Childress Street: A Memoir. Harlem Moon, 2006. 973.04960730092 J312j
Lanker, Brian. I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999. 920.7208996073 L275i 1999.
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine, Books, 2004. 305.567092 T79l
Lewis, David. W. E. B. Du Bois - Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. Holt, 1993. 973.04960730092 D852l.
Lewis, John. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Simon & Schuster, 1998. 328.73092 L587L.
Manis, Andrew Michael. A Fire Your Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttleworth. Univ. of Alabama Press, 1999. 305.8960730761781 M314f.
McCall, Nathan. Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America . Random, 1994. 305.3896073092 M124m.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. Norton, 1991. 973.7092 D747m.
Massengale, Joe and David Clow. Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success. Harmony Books, 2006.
Morgan, Joan. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip Hop Feminist. Simon & Schuster, 1999. 973.04960730092 M822m.
Nazer, Mede. Slave: My True Story. Public Affairs, 2004. 306.362092 N237n
Potter, Joan. African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumps of Blacks in America. Pinto Press, 1994. 973.0496 P853a.
Ringgold, Faith. We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. Little, Brown, 1995. 709.2 R473r.
Ro, Ronin. Dr. Dre: the Biography. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007. 782.421649092 D78r
Robinson, Randall. Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America.. Dutton, 1998. 973.04960730092 R566r.
Schwerin, Jules. Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. 782.25 J136s.
Simone, Nina. I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone. Pantheon, 1991. 782.42164092 Si56s.
Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 975.6755 T988r
Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. Amistad, 2004. 782.421643092 J636w
Washington-Williams, Essie Mae. Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Senator Strom Thurmond. Regan Books, 2005. 973.9092 W279d
White, Alice. Alice Walker: A Life. W.W. Norton, 2004. 813.54 W152zw
Williams, Rita. If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black widow of the Civil War: A Memoir. Harcourt, 2006. 978.800496073092 W675w
Watkins, Mel. Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster, 1998. 977.139004960730092 W326w
We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneeing African American Gospel Composers. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. 782.25 W369w.
X, Malcolm and Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ballantine, 1992. 305.896073 X1au
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs: A Life. Basic Civitas Books, 2004. 306.362092 J152y

Civil Rights, Politics & Race Relations

Anderson, Jervis. Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen: A Biography. HarperCollins, 1997. 323.092 R928a.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford University Press, 2006. 323.097509046 Ar72f
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Turning South: Re-Thinking Modernism /Re-Thinking Booker T. Washington. Duke, 2001.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Modern Library, 1995. 305.896073 B193f.
Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial, 1961. 1978. 326 B19n.
Beals, Melba. White is a State of Mine: A Memoir. Putnam’s Books, 1999. 379.2630976773 B368w.
Beals, Melba. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rocks's Central High. Pocket Books, 1994. 370.19342 B368w.
Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. ed. by Judson L. Jefferies. Univ. of Illinois, 2007.
Blackwell, Unite. Barefootin': Life Lessons fromthe Road to Freedom. Crown, 2006. 323.092 B568b
Boyd, Herb. We Shall Overcome: A Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words, Pictures, and the Voices of the Participants. Sourcebooks, 2004. 323.1196073009046 B692w
Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 323.1196073009046 B732a
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters, 1954-1963 (America in the King Years). Simon & Schuster, 1988. 973.0496073 B732a.
Brazile, Donna. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. Simon & Schuster, 2004. 324.7092 B739b
Campbell, Clarice T. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1997. 323.1196073 C152c
Carroll, Rebecca. Uncle Tom or New Negro?: African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up From Slavery 100 Years Later. BroadwayBooks/Harlem Moon, 2006. 370.92 W276u
Civil Rights Decisons of the United States Supreme Court: the 20th Century. Excellent Books, 1994. 342.73085 C499civ.
Chappel, David L. A Stone of Hope : Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 323.1196073 C368s
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. McGraw Hill, 1968. 301.451 C58s.
Collins, Rodnell P. Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X. Carol Publishing, 1998. 320.54092 X1cs
Davis, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. W.W. Norton, 1998. 973.0496073 D298w.
Dupuis, Maartin. and Keith Boeckelman. Barack Obama: The New Face of American Politics. Praeger, 2007. 328.73092 Ob1d
Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. Greenwood Press, 1992. Reference 305.896073 En19e.
Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. Penguin, 1991. 973.0496073 Ey36e.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press, 1967, 1988. 301.451 F21b.
Franks, Gary. Searching for the Promised Land: An African American's Optimistic Odyssey. ReganBooks, 1996. 328.73092 F855f.
Gardner, Chris. The Pursuit of Happiness. Amistad, 2006. 323.62092 G171g
Goluboff, Risa L. Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Harvard, 2007. 323.1196073 G584l
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. Wiley, 1998. 323.092 B172g.
Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster, 1997. 976.246 H719h
Honey, Michael Keith. Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. University of California Press, 1999. 331.6396073 H757b
Hopson, Darlene. Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society. Prentice Hall, 1990. 305.2308996073 H779d.
Iverton, Spencer. Stealing Democracy: the New Politics of Voter Suppression. WW. Norton, 2006. 324.65 Ov2s
Jackson, Thomas F. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice. University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Jefferies, Judson L., ed. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. Univ. of Illinois, 2007.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Warner Books, 1998. 323.092 K585ki.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community. Harper, 1967, Beacon Press, 1968. 301.451 K58w. Also, 305.896073 K585w.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can't Wait. Harper Row, 1963, NAL, 1964. 301.451 K58. Also, 323 K585w.
Kotz, Nick.. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America. Houghton, 2005. 323.0922 K849j
Lincoln, C. Eric. Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America. Duke Univ. Press, 1996. 305.800973 L638c.
Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hammer. Dutton, 1993. 973.049607302 H178m.
One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future: The President's Initiative on Race. Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative, 1998. 305.800973 On2o.
Murali, Balaji. The Professor and the Student: the Politics of W.E.B. Dubois and Paul Robeson. National Books, 2007. 323.0922 B182p
Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Univ. of California Press, 1995. 323.09762 P293i.
Posner, Gerald. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Random House, 1998. 364.1524092 K585p.
Rangel, Charles. An I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: from the Street of Harlem to the Halls of Congress. St. Martin, 2007.
Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: the Press, the Civil Right Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. Knopf, 2006. 070.04493058 R542r
Schulke, Flip. He Had Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Norton, 1995. 323.092 L585s.
Smith Elaine M. Mary McLeon Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women: Pursuing a True and Unfettered Democracy. Alabama State University, 2003. 323.092 B465s
Vollers, Maryanne. Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, Trials of Byron De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South. Little, Brown, 1995. 364.1524092 Ev27v.
West, Cornell. Democracy Matters: Wining the Fight Against Imperialism. Penguin Press, 2004. 321.8 W52d
White, Deborah G. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994. W.W. Norton, 1999. 305.48896073006 W582t.
Williams, Donnie. The Thunder of Angels: the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow. Lawrence Hill Books, 2005. 323.1761470945 W671t
Witness for Freedom: African-American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993. 973.7114 W781w.
Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. HarperCollins, 1996. 323.092 Y84y.

Food/Health

Angelou, Maya. Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: a Lifetime of Memories with Recipes. Randon House, 2004.
641.5973 An43h
Collier, Andrea King and Willards V. Edwards. The Black Woman's Guide to Black Men's Health. Warner, 2007. 613.0423408996073 C69b
Gaines, Fabiola. Healthy Soul Food Cooking. Small Steps Press, 2007. 641. 56314 G127h
Gavin, James R. Dr. Gavin's Health Guide for African Americans. Small Steps Press, 2004. 613.08996073 G245d
Health and Healing for African-Americans: Straight Talk and Tips from More Than 150 Black Doctors on Our Top Health Concerns. Rodale Press, 1997. 613.08996073 H349h.
Henderson, Jeff. Cooked:From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras.William Morrow, 2007. 364.177092 H383h
Lewis, Edna and Scott Peacock. The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great Southern Cooks. Knopf, 2006. 641.5974 L585g
Lewis, Edna. The Taste of Country Cooking. Knopf, 2006. 30th anniversary ed. 641.5975 L585t
McGee, Robyn. Hungry for More: A Keeping-It-Real Guide for Black Women on Weight and Body Image. Seal Press, 2005. 616. 3980082 M172h
Mitchell, Stacey Ann. Livin' Large: African American Sisters Confront Obesity. Hilton Publishing, 2004. 616.398008996073 M695l
National Council of Negro Women. the Black Family Reunion Bookbook: Recipes and Food Memories. Simon & Schuster, 1993 . 641.59296073 B561b
Robertson, Gil L. Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Family. Agate, 2006. 362.196979200973 N843n
Sullivan, Andrea. A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind, and Soul. .Doubleday, 1998. 615.535 Su53p.
Weaver, Roniece. The Family Style Soul Food Diabetes Cookbook. American Diabetes Association, 2006. 641.56314 F21f
White, Joyce. Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African- American Churches. Morrow, 1998. 641.59296073 W584s
Woods, Sylvia. Sylvia's Soul Food: Recipes from Harlem's World Famous Restaurant. Hearst Books, 1992. 641.59296073 W868sy

History

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, 1999. Ref. 909.0496003 Af83a.
Asante, Molefi K. and Mattson, Mark T. The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture-An Illustrated Reference. .Macmillan USA, 1998. 973.0496073 As13a.
Berlin, Ira. and Leslie M. Harris. Slavery in New York. The New Press, 2005. 974.70496073 Sl16s
Bitter Fruit: African-American Women in World War II. ed. by. Honey/ Maureen. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1999. 940.5403 B548b.
Blight, David. W., ed. Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory. Smithsonian, 2004. 973.7115 P265p
Blight, David. W. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom; Inlcuding Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Harcourt, 2007
Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. Amistad, 2005. 973.7115 B644b
Carroll, Rebecca. Saving the Race: Conversations on DuBois from a Collective on Souls. Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2004.
Chase, Henry. In Their Footsteps: The American Visions Guide to African-American Historical Sites. Holt, 1994. 917.304929 C386i.
Christian, Charles Melvin. Black Saga: The African-American Experience. Houghton, 1995. 973.049607300202 C462b.
Clasrud, Bruce A. and Michael N. Serles, eds. Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology. Texas A&M University Press, 2007. 973.8 B863b
Cone, James H. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. Orbis, 1991. 973.0496073022 C756m.
Cross, June. Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. Viking, 2006.
Crouch, Stanley. Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997. Pantheon Books, 1998. 973.92 C884a
Davis, David Brion. In Human Bondage: the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford, 2006
Davidson, Basil. The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. Times Books, 1992. 320.96 D281b.
DeRamus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. Atria Books, 2005. 973.71150922 D443f
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. W.W. Norton, 1999. 973.0496073 D852so.
Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. University of California Press, 2005. 979.49400496073 F611b
Foner, Eric. Forever Free: the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Knopf, 2005. 973.8 F732f
Franklin, John Hope. Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation , 1790-1860. Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. 975.00496 F854r.
Franklin, John Hope. In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South. Oxford, 2006
Frederickson, George M. Big Enough to be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race. Harvard, 2008. 973.7092 L638fr
Freedom Changed History. Farrar, 2007. 973.7115 Sm25i
French, Scot. A Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in the American Memory. Moughton Mifflin, 2004. 975.55503092 T855f
Gaines, Kevin Kelly. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996. 973.0496073 G127u.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. African American Lives. Oxford University Press, 2004. Ref. 920.009296073 Af83a
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment, 1772-1815. Civitas, 1998. 973.0496073 P659p.
A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. 973.74150922 G762g.
Hausman, Gerald. African-American Alphabet: A Celebration of African-American and West Indian Culture, Custom, Myth and Symbol. St. Martin’s, 1996. 973.0496073003 H295a.
Hine, Darlene Clark. A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America. Broadway Books, 1998. 305.48896073 H588s.
Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Gale, 1991. Reference 973.049607300202 H784c.
Jackson, Ruby West. Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave. University of Wisconsin, 2007. 973. 7115092 G518j
Johnson, Charles Richard. Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery. Harcourt Brace, 1998. 973.0496073 J63a.
Laird, Roland Owen. Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans. W.W. Norton, 1997. 973.049607300207 L144s.
Lehman, Nicholas. Redemption: the Last Battle of the Civil War. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. 975.00496073 L541l
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America. Knopf, 1991. 973 L541p.
McCray, Carrie Allen. Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter. .Algonquin Books, 1998. 973.04960730092 Al54m.
Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavey, and the Civil War. Knopf, 2007. 973.74 M316w
Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind: the Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. University of California Press, 2007. 929.20890597557096073 M597t
Moore, Brenda L. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War 11. New York Univ. Press, 1996. 940.5403 M781t.
Moore, Christopher Paul. Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - The Unsung Heroes of World War 11. One World/Ballatine Books, 2005. 940.5403 M781f
Myers, Walter Dean. One More River to Cross: An African-American Photograph Album. Harcourt Brace, 1995. 973.0496073 M992o.
Newman, Richard. Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History. Plume, 1996. 973.0496073 N467e.
Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln , and the Triumph of Antislavery. Norton, 2007 . 973.71140922 Oa4r
Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Crown, 2006. 973.04960730092 Ob1a
Painter, Nell Irvin. Creating Black Americans: African Americans and Its Meanings. Oxford University Press, 2006. 973. 0496073 P166c New 4 Week
Picturing U.S.: African-American Indentity in Photography. New Press, 1994. 770.8996073 P589p.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown Abolitionists: the Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Knopf, 2005. 973. 7116092 B813r
Robeson, Jr. Paul. A Black Way of Seeing: From "Liberty" to Freedom. Seven Stories Press, 2006. 973.0496076 R549b
Robinson, Randall. Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land. Dutton, 2004. 973.04960730092 R566ro
Sherwood, John Darrell. Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam Era. New York University Press, 2007. 940.545108996073 Sh58b
Smardz Front, Karolyn. I've Got a Home in Glory Land: the Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007
Songs of My People: African-Americans: A Self-Portrait. Little, Brown, 1992. 973.049607300222 So58s.
Stewart, Jeffrey C. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History. Doubleday, 1996. 973.0496073 St49o.
Tobin, Jacqueline with Hellie Jones. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. Doubleday, 2007. 973.7115 T554f
Tyson, Timothy B. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story. Crown Publishers, 2004. 975.653500496073 T988b
Wamba, Philippee E. Kinship: a Family's Journey in Africa and America. Dutton, 1999. 973.04960730092 W18w
Wilson, Joseph. The Black Phalanx: African-American Soldiers in the War of Independence , the War of 1812 adn the Civil War. DaCapo Press, 1994. 973.7415 W694b.

Legal/Law

Bell, Derrick. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. Oxford University Press, 2004. 344.730798 B413s
Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. H. Holt, 2004. 346.73025230977434 B697a
Foskett, Ken. Judging Thomas: the Life and Times of Clarence Thomas. Morrow, 2004. 347.732634 T361f
Merida, Kevin. Supreme Discomfort: the Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. Doubleday, 2007. 347.732634 M543s
Olgetree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v Board of Education. W.W. Norton, 2004. 342.730873 Og5a
Thomas, Clarence. My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir. Harrper, 2007. 347.732634 T361th
Weiner, Mark S. Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste. Knopf, 2004. 342.730873 W431b

Literature & Poetry

African-Amerian Writers. ed. by Valerie Smith. C. Scribner's Sons, 1991. Reference 810.9896073 Af83a.
Angelou, Maya. A Brave and Startling Truth. Random House, 1995. 811.54 An43b.
Baldwin, James. The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985. St. Martin's, 1985. 814.54 B193p.
Bambara, Toni Cade. Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays and Criticism. Pantheon Books, 1996. 813.54 B219d.
Beatty, Paul, ed. Hokum: An Anthology of African - American Humor. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006.
Bell, Bernard. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. University of Massachusetts, 2004. 813.509896073 B413c
Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classis to the Contemporary. ed. by William H. Banks, Jr. Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2004. 810.8097471 B418a
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction and Critical Essays. Meridian, 1992. 810.80896073075 B561b.
Bolden, B. J. Urban Rage in Bronzeville: Social Commentary in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960. Third World Press, 1999. 811.54 B791zb.
Branch, William B. Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama. Mentor, 1992. 812.54080896073 B561b.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Blacks. Third World Press, 1991. c. 1987. 811.54 B791b.
Brown, Sterling Allen. A Son 's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown. Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996. 973.0497 B815s.
Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets. Little Brown & Co, 2007. 813.54 B828zb
Cleage, Pearl. We Speak Your Name: A Celebration. One World/Ballantine Books, 2006. 811.54 C58w
Davis, Ossie. Life Lit By Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings. Atria, 2006 .815.54 D296l
Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African- Americans Since 1945. Little, Brown, 1994. 811.54080896073 Ev27e.
Gates, Henry Louis. Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology. Meridian, 1990. 810.9352042 R227r.
Giovanni, Nikki. Racism 101. Morrow, 1994. 811.54 G439r.
Giovanni, Nikki. The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. William Morrow and Co., 1996. 811.54 G439s.
Giovanni, Nikki, ed. Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems. Holt, 1996. 811.5080928308996073 Sh62s.
Goss, Linda and Clay Goss, eds. Jump Up and Say!: A Collection of Black Storytelling.. Simon & Schuster, 1995 (Fiction).
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "Who Set You Flowin’?": The African-American Migration Narrative. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. 813.009895073 G875w.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: An Anthology: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New Press, 1995. 305.4208996073 W891w.
Holmes, Linda Janet, ed. Savoiring the Salt: the Legacy of Toni Cade Cade Bambara. Beacon, 2007. 813.54 B219zs
Hughes, Langston. The Langston Hughes Reader. G. Braziller, 1958. 820.8 H87.
I Hear a Symphony: African-Americans Celebrate Love. Doubleday, 1994. 810.80354 I1i.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, Memories and Other Writings. Library of America, 1995. 398.092 H946h.
Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line Harvard/Balknap. 2006
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. 811.00808960773 In9i.
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative. ed. by, Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins.. Basic Civitas Books, 2004. 813.3 C842zi
Jordan, A. Van. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems. W.W. Norton, 2004. 811.6 J761m
King, Woodie, Jr., ed. The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters. Applause, 1995. 812.008896073 N213n.
The Leroy Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader. Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991. 818.5409 B231l.
Majors, Clarence, ed. The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-Amrerican Poetry. HarperPerennial, 1996. 811.5080896073 G167g.
Masterpieces of African-American Literature. HarperCollins, 1992. Reference 810.9896073 M393m.
Millen, Bill, ed. Revolutionary Tales: African-American Women's Short Stories, from the First Story to the Present. Dell, 1995. (Fiction).
Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women. Theatre Communications Group, 1994. 812.540809287 M778m.
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. 810.98034 M834p.
Moss, Thylias. Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse. Persea, 2006. 811.54 M855s
Murray, Albert. Conversations With Albert Murray.. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1997. 813.54 M961zm.
My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color. Harper, 1993. 081.08996073 M99m.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. ed. by Henry Louis Gates and Nellie Mckay. W.W. Norton, 1997. 810.80896073 N821n.
Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. ed. by Arnold Rampersad. Oxford University Press, 2006. 811.0080896073 Ox2o
Patterson, Lindsay, ed. A Rock Against the Wind: African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion. Berkeley, 1996. 811.0080354 R59r.
Perry, Tyler. Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrnings... Roverhead, 2006. 814.6 P429d
Rampersad, Arnold. Ralph Ellison: a Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 818.5409 E159r
Rowell, Charles Henry, ed. Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe. Westview Press, 1995. (Fiction)
Scott, Jill. The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours. St. Martin's Press, 2005. 811.6 Sco84m
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems. ed. by Nikki Giovanni. Holt, 1996. 811.5080928308996073 Sh62s.
Sioyinka, Wole. You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. Randon House, 2006. 822 So96zsy
Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Black Urban Experience. ed. by Doris Jean Austin. and Martin Simmons. Penguin, 1996.
Swenson, May. Nature: Poems Old and New. Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 811.54 Sw42na.
Turner, Patricia. I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture. Univ. of California Press, 1993. 398.08996073 T856i.
Walker, Alice. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. New Press, 2006
Walker, Alice. Her Blue Body: Everything We Know , Earthling Poems, 1965-1990. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 811.54 W151he.
Washington, Mary Helen. Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers. Doubleday, 1991. 810.8035204 M519m.
Wintz, Cary. D. Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance. Sourcebooks, 2007
Young, Kevin. Black Maria: Being the Adventures of Delilah Redbone and A.K.A. Jones. Knopf, 2005. 811.54 Y85b
Young, Kevin. For the Confederate Dead . Knopf, 2007 .

Money/Finance/Work

Bridgforth, Glinda. Girl, Get Your Credit Straight: A Sister's Guide to Ditching Your Debt, Mending Your Credit, and Building a Strong Financial Future. Broadway Books, 2007. 332. 02402082 B764g
Daniels, Dora. Black Power Inc. : The New Voice of Success. Wiley, 2004. N4W 658.40908996073 D228b
Johnson, Michelle T. Working While Black: the Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace. Chicago Review Press, 2004. 650.108996073 J635w
Johnson, Michelle. Black Out: the Black Person's Guide to Redefining a Career Path Outside of Corporate America. Amber Books, 2006
Khalfani, Lynette. Zero Debt: the Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom. Advantage World Press, 2004. 332.02402 K526z
Pager, Devah. Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Age of Incarceration. University of Chicago, 2007. 331.5108990673 P146m
Shapiro, Thomas M. The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality.Oxford University Press, 2004. 330.973008996073 Sh22h

Psychology & Religion

Billingsley, Andrew. Mighty Like a River: the Black Church and Social Reform. Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. 277.308208996073 B496m.
Canada, Geoffrey. Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America. Beacon Press, 1998. 305.23 C16r.
Carby, Hazel V. Race Men. Harvard Univ. Press, 1998. 305.38896073 C177r.
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African - Americans. HarperCollins, 1994. 242.8008996073 C769c.
DeCaro, Louis. Malcolm and the Cross: The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and Christianity. New York Univ. Press, 1998. 297.87 D355m.
Dyson, Michael. Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993. 973.0496073 D995r.
Edelman, Marian Wright. The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours. Beacon Press, 1992. 649.10973 Ed27m.
Galdwell, Malcolm. Blink: the Power of Thinking about Thinking. Little, Brown & Co., 2005. 153.44 G455b
Gilbreath, Edward. Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity. Intervarsity Press, 2006. 277. 3083089 G378r
Hendricks, Obery M. The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They have Been Corrupted. Doubleday, 2006. 261.7 H384p
Hill, Harper. Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny. Gotham Books, 2006. 170.8421 H232l
Hooks, Bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. South End Press, 1992. 305.48896073 H764b
Jakes, Bishop T. D. He-Motions [ Even Strong Men Struggle]. Brillance Audio, 2004. 248.842 J211h. (Books on Cassette)
Jakes, T. D. Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits. Atria Books, 2007
Johnson Cook , Suzan D. Live Like You're Blessed: Simple Steps for Making Balance, Love, Energy, Spirit, Success, Encouragment, and Devotion Part of Your Life. Doubleday, 2006. 248.4 C744l
Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Church in the African-American Experience. Duke Univ. Press, 1990. 277.30808996073 L638b.
Lincoln, C. Eric. The Black Muslims in America, 3rd ed. W. B. Eerdsmans, 1994. 297.87 L638b3
Madhubuti, Haki. Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The Afrikan American Family in Transition: Essays in Discovery, Solution, and Hope. Third World Press, 1990. 814.54 M264b.
Perry, Dwight. Breaking Down Barriers: A Black Evangelical Explains the Black Church. Baker Books, 1998. 277.30808996073 P429b.
Proctor, Samuel D. The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith. Putnam, 1995. 286.1092 P942p.
Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History. Beacon Press, 1995. 277.30808996073 R113f.
Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, Updated ed. Oxford University Press, 2004.. 299.6097609034 R113s
Scott, Kesho. The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991. 305.48896073022 Sco84h.
Turner, Richard Brent. Islam in the African-American Experience. Indiana Univ. Press, 1997. 297.08996073 T857i.
Ward, Martha. Voodoo Queen: the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau. University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 299.675092 L385w
Wiley, Ralph. Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World. Carol Publishing Group. 1991. 305.896073 W648w.

Reference Resources

Black Women in America, 2nd ed. ed. by Darlne Clark Hine. Oxford, 2005. *305.48896073 B561b2

Social Life & Customs

Angelo, Maya. Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes. Random House, 2004. 641.5973 An43h
Asim, Jabari. The N Word: Who Can Say it, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 305.896073 As42n
Beal, Anne C. The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years. Broadway Books,1999. 649.108996073 B36b.
Billingsley, Andrew. Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families. Simon & Schuster, 1992. 306.850896073 B496c.
Black Family Reunion Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from the National Council of Negro Women. Simon & Schuster, 1993. 641.59296073B561b
Boston, Kelvin E. Smart Money Moves for African Americans. Putnam, 1996. 332.0240396073 B657s.
Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop. Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. St. Martin's Press, 2005. 306.4842490973 C362c
Copage, Eric V. .Kwanzaa: An African-American Celebration of Culture and Cooking. Morrow, 1991. 641.59296073 C79k.
The Covenant with Black America. Third World Press, 2006. 305.896073 C838c
Crouch, Stanley. Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity. Basic Civitas Books, 2004. 305.8 C8884a
Daniels, Cora. Ghettonation: a Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless. Doubleday, 2007
Dickerson, Debra J. The End of Blackness: Returning the Soul of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners. Pantheon Books, 2004 305.896073 D558e
Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna). Dreams of Africa in Alabama: the Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Oxford University Press, 2007. 306.3620899660761 D624d
Dixon, Barbara M. Good Health for African-American Kids. Crown, 1996. 649.408996073 D643g.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. Basic Civitas, 2006. 363.3492256073 D995c
Dyson, Michael Eric. Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson. Basic Civitas, 2007. 305. 896073 D995d
Dyson, Michael Eric. Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Basic Civitas Books, 2005. 305.896073 D995r
Farrow, Anne. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. Ballantine, 2005. 306.3620973 F249c
Fullilove, Mindy. Root Shock: How Tearing Up America's Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Ballantine/One World, 2004. 307.760973 F959r
Gates, Henry Louis. America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans. Warner Books, 2004. 305.896073 B223a
Hale, Janice. Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African-American Children. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994. 370.08996073 H133u.
Hardesty, Von. Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans inAviation and Space History. Smithsonian, 2007. 629.13092296073 H218b
Harris, Jessica B. The Welcome Table: African-American Heritage Cooking. Simon & Schuster, 1995. 641.59296073 H242w.
Hart, Philip S. African Americans and the Future of New Orleans: Rebirth, Renewal and Rebulding; An American Dilemma. Amber, 2007. 307.340976335 H251a
Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: a Journey Along the Atlandtic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 2007. 306.36209667 H255l
Henderson, Jeff. Cooked:From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras.William Morrow, 2007. 364.177092 H383h
Hill, Robert Bernard. The Strength of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years Later. Univ. Press of America, 1999. 306.8508996073 H555s
Holmes, Rachel. African Queen: the Real Life of the Hottentot Venus. Randon House, 2007. 305. 488961 B111h
Honey, Michael. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign. Norton, 2007 . 331.89281363720976819 H757g.
Hopkinson, Natalie and Natalie Moore. Deconstructing Tyrone: a New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. Cleis, 2006. 305. 38896073 H777d
Hopson, Darlene Powell. Juba This and Juba That: 100 African-American Games for Children. Simon & Schuster, 1996. 793.096 H779j.
James, Joy. Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals. Routledge, 1997. 305.896073 J234t.
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang. Penguin, 1994. 427.97308996 J872j.
Kunjufu, Jawanza. Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment. African American Images, 1991. 338.9008996073 K962b.
Ladson-Billings, Gloria. The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children. Jossey-Bass, 1994. 370.8996073 L127d.
McWorther, John H. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. Gotham Books, 2006. 305. 896073 M258w
McWhorter, John H. The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English. Plenum Trade, 1998. 420.973 M258w.
Medearis, Angela. A Kwanzaa Celebration: Festive Recipes and Homemade Gifts from An African-American Kitchen. Dutton, 1995. 641.59296073 M467k.
Mincy, Ronald B., Ed. Black Males Left Behind. The Urban Institute, 2006. 331.340810973 B561b
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Three Rivers Press, 2004. 305.8960730092 Ob12o
Pattillo, Mary. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. University of Chicago Press, 2007 . 305.896073077311 P277b
Rabaka, Reiland. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Africana Critical Theory. Lexington Books, 2007
Roberts, Douglas A. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 070.4493058 R542r
St. Clair, William. Door of No Return: the History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. BlueBridge, 2007. 306.36209667 St22d
Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women. NYU Press, 2007 . 305.48896073 Sh24p
Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I've Got a Home in Glory Land: the True Story of Two Runaway Slaves Whose Flight to Freedom Changed History. Farrar, 2007. 973.7115 Sm25i
Smiley, Travis. The Covenant with Black America. Third World Press, 2006. 305.896073 C838c
Sotheby. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, New York, June 30, 2006. Sotheby's, 2006. 323.092 K585ml
Stack, Carol B. Call to Home: African-Amerians Reclaim the Rural South. Basic Books, 1996. 304.808996073 St12c.
Stone, Robin D. No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse. Broadway Books, 2004. 362.88308996073 St72n
Stringer, Lee. Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street. Seven Stories Press, 1998. 362.5097471 St86g
Stringer, Lee. Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life. Seven Stories Press, 2004. 649.153092 St86s
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity. Beacon Press, 1995. 305.896073 T176t.
Thinking Black: Some of the Nations' Best Black Columnist Speak Their Minds. Crown, 1996. 305.896073 T348t.
Vassel, Rachel. Daughters of Men: Portraits of African-American Women and Their Fathers. Amistad:harperCollins, 2007. 306.8742 V447d
Watkins, Mel. On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying and Signifying...: The Underground Traditon of African-American Humor.. Simon & Schuster, 1994. 792.2308996073 W326o.
Walton-Raji, Angela. Black Indian Genealogy Research. Heritage, 1993. 929.308996 W179b.
Washington, Harriett. Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of medical Expermination on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Doubleday, 2006. 174.28 W277m
West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader. Basic Civitas Books, 1999. 305.896073 W52c.
White, Joseph L. Black Man Emerging: Seizing a Future in America. W. H. Freeman, 1999.
White, Shane. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginning to The Zoot Suit. Cornell Univ. Press, 1998. 305.896073 W585s.
Williams, Juan. Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and the Culture of Failure That Are Underminding Black Americans and What We Can Do About It. Crown, 2006. 973.0496073 W673e
Williams, Juan. I'll Find a Way or Make One: a Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Amistad/Harper Collins, 2004. 378.7308996073 W673i
Williams, Patricia J. Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own. Farrar, Straus, & Girous, 2004. 070.92 W674w
Williams, Stanley Tookie. Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir. Touchstone: Simon& Schuster, 2007. 364.1523092 W675w
Willis, Andre C., ed. Faith of Our Fathers: African-American Men Reflect on Fatherhood. Dutton, 1996. 306.874208996073 F172f.
Wilson Mbajekwe, Carolyn O., ed. . The Future of Historically Black Colleges and Universite: Ten Presidents Speak Out. McFarland & Co, 2006 . 378.7308996073 F989f

Sports

Adbul-Jabbar, Kareem. On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey through the Harlem Renaissance. Simon & Schuster, 2007. 796.323092 Ab32ab
Barkley, Charles. I May be Wrong But I Doubt It. Random House, 2002. 796.323092 B246ba
Boyd, Todd. Young , Black, Rich & Famous: the Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion and the Transformation of American Culture. Doubleday, 2003. Pop796.3230973 B692y
Callahan, Tom. In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf with Tiger Woods. Crown, 2003. 796.352092 W867ca
Drape, Joe. Black Maestro: the Epic Life of an American Legend. Morrow, 2006. 798.40092 W728d
Holway, John B. Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History. Hastings House Publishers, 2001. 796.3576408996073 H747c
Jacobson. Steve. Carrying Jackie's Torch: the Players Who Integrated Baseball and America. Lawrence Hill, 2007. 796.3570922 J159c
Rhoden, William. C. Forty Million Dollar Slaves: the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. Crown, 2006. 796.08996073 R346f
Rice, Jerry. Go Long: My Journey Beyond the Fame and the Game. Ballantine, 2007. 796. 332092 R363ri
Robertson, Oscar. Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game. Rodale Press, 2003. 796.323092 R547r
Robinsin, Jackie. First Class Citizenship: the Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson. Times Books, 2007. 796.357092 R563rf
Taylor, Lawrence. LT Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football. HarperCollins, 2003. 796.33264092 T215t
Ward, Geoffrey C. Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Knopf, 2004. 796.83092 J633w

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