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African American Culture: Books Published 2005 to Present

Arts & Music | Biography | Civil Rights, Politics & Race Relations | Food/Health & Fitness | History | Law | Literature & Poetry | Money/Finance/Work | Psychology & Religion | Social Life & Customs | Sports

Arts and Music

• Alkyer, Frank, ed. The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine, Hal Leonard Books, 2007. 788.92165092 D295a
• Arnet, Paul and William Arnet, eds. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. Tinwood Press, 2007. 745.08996073075 So83s v.1 Oversize Books
• Barnett, LaShondra Katrice, ed. I Got Thunder: Black Women's Songwriters on Their Craft.Thunder's Mouth, 2007. 782.42082 B264i
• Bogle, Donald. Bright Boulevards: the Story of Black Hollywood. One World Ballantine Books,  2005. 791.43028097396073 B634b
• 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
• 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. NYYU 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
• 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
• Forbes, Camille F. Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star. Basic Civitas, 2008. 792.7028092 W67f
• Glass, Barbara S. African American Dance: An Illustrated History. McFarland, 2006.
• 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
• Littleton, Darryl. Black Comedian on Black Comedy. Applause, 2006.
• Magee, Jeffrey. The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz. Oxford University Press, 2005. 791.65092 H383m
• 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
• Parks, Gordon. A Hungry Heart: A Memoir. Atria, 2005. 770.92 P236pa
• Pearson, Felicia "Snoop" & David Ritz. Grace After Midnight: A Memoir. Grand Central, 2007. 791.45028092 P317p
• Ratliff, Ben. Coltrane: The Story of Sound . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007 788.7165092 C722r
• Sarr, Betye. Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Momment. University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2005. 709.2 Sa12s New 4 Week
• Sarig, Ron. Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and the Rise of the Dirty South Hip-Hop. Da Capo, 2007.

Biography

• Bell, Madison. Toussaint Louverture:  A Biography. Pantheon, 2007.. 972. 9403092 T649b
• Brown, Cupcake. A Piece of Cake: A Memoir. Crown, 2005. 979.498500496073092 B812b
• Brown, Willie. Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times. Simon & Schuster, 2008. 328.797092 B815b
• Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A True Story of Family, Race, and Secrets. Little, Brown, 2007. 813.54 B828zb
• 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
• Franklin, John Hope. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Farrar, 2005. 973.04960730092 F854f
• Goodison, Lorna. From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People. Harper Collins, 2008 ( On order) 811.54 G619zg
• Govenar, Alan. Untold Glory. Broadway, 2007.
• Jasper, Kenji. The House on Childress Street: A Memoir. Harlem Moon, 2006. 973.04960730092 J312j
• Massengale, Joe and David Clow. Six Lessons for Six Sons: An Extraordinary Father, A Simple Formula for Success. Harmony Books, 2006.
• Ro, Ronin. Dr. Dre: the Biography. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007. 782.421649092 D78r
• Stringer, C. Vivian. Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph. Crown, 2008. (On order) 976.323092 St86s
• Washington-Williams, Essie Mae. Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Senator Strom Thurmond. Regan Books, 2005. 973.9092 W279d

Civil Rights, Politics & Race

• Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford University Press, 2006. 323.097509046 Ar72f
• Blackwell, Unite. Barefootin': Life Lessons fromthe Road to Freedom. Crown, 2006. 323.092 B568b
• Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 323.1196073009046 B732a
• 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
• Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2008. 323.092 K585me
• Cobb, Charles B. On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Movement. Algonquin, 2008 . 323.1196073 C633o
• Dupuis, Maartin. and Keith Boeckelman. Barack Obama: The New Face of American Politics. Praeger, 2007. 328.73092 Ob1d
• Dyson, Michael Eric. April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America. Basic Civitas, 2008. 323.1196073 D995a N4W
• Gardner, Chris. The Pursuit of Happiness. Amistad, 2006. 323.62092 G171g
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. WWW Norton, 2008 303.48499750904 G423d
• Goluboff, Risa L. Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Harvard, 2007. 323.1196073 G584l
• Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Oxford, 2008 (On order)
• 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.
• Kennedy, Randall. Sellout: the Politics of Racial Disloyalty. Pantheon, 2008. 323.1196073 K386s
• Kotz, Nick.. Judgment Days:  Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America. Houghton, 2005. 323.0922 K849j
• Murali, Balaji. The Professor and the Student: the Politics of W.E.B. Dubois and Paul Robeson. National Books, 2007. 323.0922 B182p
• 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
• Steele, Shelby. A Bound Man:Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Free Press, 2008. 328.73092 Ob1s
• 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

Food/Health/Fitness

• 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
• 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
• Robertson, Gil L. Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Family. Agate, 2006. 362.196979200973 N843n
• Weaver, Roniece. The Family Style Soul Food Diabetes Cookbook. American Diabetes Association, 2006. 641.56314 F21f
• Williams, Terri. Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting; Real Talk for When There' s Nowhere to Go but Up. Scribner, 2008. 616.8527008996073 W675b

History

• Berlin, Ira. and Leslie M. Harris. Slavery in New York. The New Press, 2005. 974.70496073 Sl16s
• Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans fromthe Civil War to World War 11. Doubleday, 2008. 305. 896073 B566s
• Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. Amistad, 2005. 973.7115 B644b
• Casper, Scott E. Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: the Forgotten History of an American Shrine. Hill&Wang, 2008. 973.41092 J637c (On order)
• 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
• Cross, June. Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. Viking, 2006.
• Davis, David Brion. In Human Bondage: the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford, 2006
• DeRamus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. Atria Books, 2005. 973.71150922 D443f
• DeWolf, Thomas Norman. Inheriting the Trade: Politics and Popular Cultue in the Post- Civil Rights Era. Beacon, 2008. 306.3620974 D518i
• 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. 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
• Frost, Karolyn Smardz. 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
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. African American National Biography, 8 vols. Oxford University Press, 2008. *920.009296073 Af83aa
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. In Search of Our Roots: African American Lives. Random House, 2008 ( On order)
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. , ed. The New Negro: Readings on Race Representation and African American Culture, 1892-1938. Princeton, 2007. 973.0496073 N42ne
• Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Mr. & Mrs Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Centuiry Family Moved out of Slavery and Into Legend. Amistad:HarperCollins, 2008. 973.0496073 G329m
• Giddings, Paula. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaing Against Lynching. HarperCollins, 2008. 323.092 W462g
• Jackson, Ruby West. Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave. University of Wisconsin, 2007. 973. 7115092 G518j
• Keith, LeeAnn. The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power , White Terror, and the End of Reconstruction. Oxford, 2008. 976.367 K269c
• Kendrick, Paul and Stephen Kendrick. Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union. Walker, 2008 973.71140922 K348d
• Lane, Charles. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betryal of Reconstruction. Holt, 2008. 976.367 L24d ( On order)
• Lehman, Nicholas. Redemption: the Last Battle of the Civil War. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. 975.00496073 L541l
• 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
• Miller, William Lee. President Lincoln: the Duty of a Statesmen. Knopf, 2008. 973.7092 L638mpr
• 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
• 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
• Sernett, Milton. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History. Duke, 2008. 973.1196073 T79s
• Sherwood, John Darrell. Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam Era. New York University Press, 2007. 940.545108996073 Sh58b
• Tobin, Jacqueline with Hellie Jones. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. Doubleday, 2007. 973.7115 T554f

Law/Legal

• Merida, Kevin. Supreme Discomfort: the Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. Doubleday, 2007. 347.732634 M543s
• Thomas, Clarence. My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir. Harrper, 2007. 347.732634 T361th

Literature and Poetry

• Beatty, Paul, ed. Hokum: An Anthology of African - American Humor. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006.
• Boyd, Herbert. Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin. Atria Books, 2008. 818.5409 B193b N4W
• 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
• Holmes, Linda Janet, ed. Savoiring the Salt: the Legacy of Toni Cade Cade Bambara. Beacon, 2007. 813.54 B219zs
• Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line Harvard/Balknap. 2006
• Morrison, Toni. What Moves at the Margins: Selected Nonfiction. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008. (On order)
• Moss, Thylias. Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse. Persea, 2006. 811.54 M855s
• Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. ed. by Arnold Rampersad. Oxford University Press, 2006. 811.0080896073 Ox2o
• 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
• Scott, Jill. The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours. St. Martin's Press, 2005. 811.6 Sco84m
• Sioyinka, Wole. You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. Randon House, 2006. 822 So96zsy
• Walker, Alice. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness. New Press, 2006
• 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
• Johnson, Michelle. Black Out: the Black Person's Guide to Redefining a Career Path Outside of Corporate America. Amber Books, 2006 (On order)
• Pager, Devah. Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Age of Incarceration. University of Chicago, 2007. 331.5108990673 P146m

Psychology and Religion

• 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
• 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

Social Life and Customs

• Asim, Jabari. The N Word: Who Can Say it, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 305.896073 As42n
• Blackburn, Robin. The Rise and Fall of  Slavery in the Americas. Verso, 2007.
• Bracey, Christopher Alan. Saviors or Sellout: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, from Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice.Beacon, 2008. 323.1196073 B722s
• Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop. Won't Stop: A History  of the Hip-Hop Generation. St. Martin's Press, 2005. 306.4842490973 C362c
• DeWolf, Thomas Norman. Inheriting the Trade: a Northern Family Confronts Its legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. Beacon, 2008. 306.3620974 D518i
• The Covenant with Black America. Third World Press, 2006. 305.896073 C838c
• 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
• Dyson, Michael Eric. Debating Race with Michael Eric Dyson. Basic Civitas, 2007. 305. 896073 D995d (On order)
• Dyson, Michael Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. Basic Civitas, 2006. 363.3492256073 D995c
• Dyson, Michael Eric. Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Basic Civitas Books, 2005. 305.896073 D995r
• Elder, Larry. Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card -and Lose. St. Martin Press, 2008. 305.89607309047 El22s
• Farrow, Anne. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. Ballantine, 2005. 306.3620973 F249c
• King, Gilbert. The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South. Basic, 2008 ( On order)
• Hart, Philip S. African Americans and the Future of New Orleans: Rebirth, Renewal and Rebulding; An American Dilemma. Amber, 2007 (On order)
• Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: a Journey Along the Atlandtic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus & Girous, 2007. 306.36209667 H255l
• 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
• McWorther, John H. Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. Gotham Books, 2006. 305. 896073 M258w
• Mincy, Ronald B., Ed. Black Males Left Behind. The Urban Institute, 2006. 331.340810973 B561b
• Moore, Christopher Paul. Fighting for America: Black Soldiers - The Unsung Heroes of World War 11. One World/Ballatine Books, 2005. 940.5403 M781f
• Manning, Chandra. When This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. Knopf, 2007 . 973.74 M316w
  Pattillo, Mary. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. University of Chicago Press, 2007 . 305.896073077311 P277b
• 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
• Vassel, Rachel. Daughters of Men: Portraits of African-American Women and Their Fathers. Amistad:harperCollins, 2007. 306.8742 V447d
• Washington, Harriett. Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of medical Expermination on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Doubleday, 2006. 174.28 W277m
• 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, Stanley  Tookie.  Blue Rage, Black  Redemption: A Memoir. Touchstone: Simon& Schuster, 2007. 364.1523092 W675w
• 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
• Balf, Todd. Major: A Black Athletic, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being. Crown Publishers, 2008. 796.6092 T216bi
• Drape, Joe. Black Maestro: the Epic Life of an American Legend. Morrow, 2006. 798.40092 W728d
• 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
• Robinsin, Jackie. First Class Citizenship: the Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson. Times Books, 2007. 796.357092 R563rf

For more African-American titles, see our other lists: African-American Culture: A Retrospective Reading List to 2004, African-American Fiction, or African Americans in Madison and Dane County.

Rev. 4/2008

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