African American Culture: Books Published 2010 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

• Benjaminson, Peter. Mary Wells: the tumultuous life of Motown's first superstar, 2012.
• Big Boy. An XL Life: Stayiing Big at Half the Size, 2011.
• Bogle, Donald. Heat Wave: the Life and Career of Ethel Waters, 2011
• Brown, Leonard L.  John Coltrane and black America's quest for freedom : spirituality and the music, 2010.
• Bua, Justin. The Legends of Hip Hop. 2011.
• Common(Musician); Bradley, Adam. One Day It'll All make Sense: A Memoir, 2011.
• Heath, Jimmy and Joseph McLaren. I Walked with Giants: the Autobiography of Jimmy Heath, 2010
• Ice-T. Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption -from South Central to Hollywood, 2011.
• Jay-Z. Decoded, 2010.
• Kelly, R. and David Ritz. Soulacoaster : the diary of me, 2012.
• Koven, Mikel J. Blaxploitation Films, 2010.
• Lauterbach, Preston. The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll, 2011.
• Pate, Alexs. In the Heart of the Beat: the Poetry of Rap, 2010.
• Reisman, Bob. I Feel So Good: the Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, 2011.
• Ro, Ronin. Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks, 2011.
• Robeson, Paul, Jr. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939-1976, 2010.
• Sandke, Randall. Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics,and Business of Jazz, 2010.
• Stolle, Roger ; Bopp, Lou. Hidden history of Mississippi blues, 2011.
• Sullivan, Denise. Keep on pushing : Black power music from blues to hip-hop, 2012.
• Turner, Steve. An Illustrated History of Gospel, 2010.

Biography

• Belafonte, Harry. My Song: a Memoir, 2011
• Grier, Pam. Foxy: a Life in Three Acts, 2010
• Johnson, Soshana. I'm Still Standing: Memoirs of a Woman Soldier Held Captive in Iraq, 2010.
• Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: a Life of Reinvention, 2011.
• McQuillar, Tanyannah Lee. Tupac Shakur: The Life of An American Icon, 2010
• Rice, Condoleezza. No Higher Honor:A Memoir of My Years in Washington, 2011. 
• Roberts, Lucimarian ; Buchanan, Missy ; Roberts, Robin. My  story, my song : mother-daughter reflections on life and faith, 2011.
• Whitaker, Mark. My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir, 2011.

Civil Rights, Politics & Race

• Asante, Molefi K. and Ronald E. Hall. Rooming in the Master's House: Power and Priviledge in the Rise of Black Conservatism, 2010.
• Biddle, Daniel and Murray Dubin. Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America, 2010.
• Branch, Taylor. The King Years: historic moments in the civil rights movement, 2013.
• Burns, Rebecca. Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr's Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation, 2011. 
• Cose, Ellis. The end of anger : a new generation's take on race and rage, 2011.   
• Greenhaw, Wayne. Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 2011.
• Honey, Michael K. All Labor Has Dignity: Martin Luther King, Jr., 2011.
• Jones, Clarence B. and Stuart Connelly. Behind the dream: the making of the speech that transformed a nation, 2011. 
• Lewis, Andy B. The Shadows of Youth: the Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation, 2010
• Martin, Jr., Gordon A. Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote, 2011.
• Meredith, James. A Mission from God: a memoir and challenge for America, 2012.
• Mouser, Bruce L. For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics, 2011.
• Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, 2010.
• Rustin, Bayard; Long, Michael G. I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's life in letters, 2012.
• Sides, Hampton. Hellhound on His Trail: the Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin, 2010.
• Taylor, Claraence. Civil Rights in New York: from World War 11 to the Giuliani Era, 2011.
• Tougas, Shelley. Birmingham 1963 : how a photograph rallied civil rights support, 2011.
  
• Young, Andrew and Kabir Sehgal. Walk in My Shoes: Conversatiosn Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead, 2010.

Food/Health & Fitness

• Angelou, Maya. Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart, 2010.
• Down, Jim. Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction,
• 2012.
• Hall, Carla; Ko, Genevieve. Cooking with love : comfort food that hugs you, 2012.
• Harris, Jessica B. High on the Hog: a culinary journey from Africa to America, 2011.
• Kahn, Jonathan. Race in a bottle : the story of BiDil and racialized medicine in a post-genomic age, 2013 (on order)
• Neeley, Patrick. The Neelys' Celebration Bookbook: Down Home Meals for Every Occasion, 2011.
• Skloot, Rebecca. Immmortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010.
  Smith, Ian. The Revolutionary Diet: 6 weeks, 4 inches, 2 sizes, 2013.
• Walker, Richard W. African-American Healthy:What You Need to Know to Protect Your Healthy, 2011.
  Walton, Niki; Carter, Ernessa T. ; Long, Jessica. Better than Good Hair:the curly girl guide to healthy, gorgeous natural hair, 2013.
• White, Augusta and Chanoff, David. Seeing patients : unconscious bias in health care, 2011.

History

• Berlin, Ira. The Making of African America: the Four Great Migrations, 2010.
• Bracks, Lean'tin. African American Almanac:400 Yars of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence, 2012
• Browder, Glen and Artemesia Stanberry. Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics and Recent Southern History, 2010.
• Countryman, Edward. Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era, 2012.
• Dagbovie, PeroGaglo. African American History Reconsidered, 2010.
• Firstbrook, Peter. The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family, 2011.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Black in Latin America, 2011.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Life Upon These Shores; Looking at African American History, 1513-2008, 2011.
• Gill, Jonathan. Harlem: the Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America, 2011.
• Johnson, Joyce Salter. The Early Black Settlers of Stephenson County, Illinois, 1830-1930 : a Hundred-year Journal of Social History , 2011.
• Johnson, Shoshana. I'm Still Standing: from Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen- My Journey Home, 2010.
• Jones, Clarence B. and Stuart Connelly. Behind the Dream: the Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation, 2011.
• Kennedy, Randall. The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency , 2011.
• Kloppenberg, James T. Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope , and the American Political Tradition, 2010.
• Lusane, Clarence. The Black History of the White House, 2010.
• Magness, Philip W. and  Sebastian N. Page.  Colonization after Emancipation : Lincoln and the movement for black resettlement, 2011.
• Manegold, C.S. Ten Hills Farm: the Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, 2010.
• Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, 2011.
• McKinstry, Carolyn and Denis George. While the World Watched: a Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement, 2011.
• Mjagkij, Nina. Loyalty in the Time of Trial: the African American Experience in World War 1, 2010.
• Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, 2010.
• Moye, Todd J. Freedom Flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen in World War 11, 2010
• National Urban League. The State of Black America, 2012.
• Patrick, Deval . A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life, 2011.
• Rawn, James, Jr. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation, 2010
• Remnick, David. The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama, 2010.
• Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa. Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, 2010.
• Rice, Condoleezza. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, 2010.
• Rutkoff, Peter M. and William B. Scott. fly away: the Great African American Cultural Migration, 2010.
• Sharma, Dinesh. Barack Obama in Hawaii and  Indonesia:the  Making of a Global President, 2011.
• Sugrue, Robert J. Not even past : Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, 2010.
  Willis, Deborah and Krauthamer, Barbara. Envisioning emancipation : Black Americans and the end of slavery, 2012.
  
• Wynn, Neil A. The African American Experience During World War 11, 2011. 

Law/Legal

• Ford, Richard Thompson. Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality, 2011.
  Goldstone, Lawrence. Inherently unequal : the betrayal of equal rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903, 2012.
• Gona, Ophelia De Laine. Dawn of Desegregation : J.A. De Laine and Briggs v. Elliott, 2011. 
• James, Rawn. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation, 2010.

Literature and Poetry

• Abani, Christopher. Sanctificum, 2010. 
• African American Literature Book Club [electronic resource]
• Alexander, Elizabeth. Crave Radiance : New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, 2010.
• Best African American Essays, 2010. ed. by Gerald Early and Debra J. Dickerson, eds., 2009
• Best African American Fiction, 2010. ed. by Gerald Early and E. Lynn Harris, eds. , 2010
• Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, 2011.
• Clifton, Lucille. Ed. by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010, 2012.
• Finney, Nikky. Head Off & Split: Poems, 2011.
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, 2012.
• Gilyard, Keith. John Oliver Killens: a Life of  Black Literary Activism, 2011.
• Giovanni, Nikki. The 100 Best African American Poems, 2010.
• Golden, Marita.The word : Black writers talk about the transformative power of reading and writing : interviews , 2011.  
• Jackson, Lawrence P. The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960, 2011.
• Phillips, Carl. Double Shadow, 2011.
• Sanchez, Sonia. Morning Haiku, 2010.
• Shange, Ntozake. Lost in Language and Sound: or How I Found My Way to the Arts: Essays, 2011.
• Stepto, Robert B. A Home Elsewhere : Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama , 2011.
• Trethewey, Natasha D. Thrall: poems, 2012
  Walker, Alice. The world will follow joy : turning madness into flowers : {new poems}, 2013.
  Walker, Alice. The cushion in the road: mediation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm's way, 2013 (on order).
• Walker, Alice. The chicken chronicles : sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir, 2011. 
• Warren, Kenneth W. What Was African American Literature?, 2011.
• The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. ed. by Rudolph P. Byrd, 2010.
• Young, Kevin. Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, 2011.
• Young, Kevin. The Grey Album: on the Blackness of Blackness, 2012.

Money/Finance/Work

• Kimbro, Dennis Pual. The Wealth Choice: success secrets of black millionaires, 2012 (on order).
• Pinkett, Randal, Jeffrey Robinson, and Philana Patterson. Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness, 2010

Psychology and Religion

• Collier-Thomas, Bettye. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice:The History of African American Women and Religion, 2010.
• Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree, 2011.
• Dixie, Quinton and Peter Eisenstadt. Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence, 2011.
• Harvey, Paul. Through the Storm, Through the Night: a History of African American Christianity, 2011.
• Marable, Manning. MalcolmX: a Life of Reinvention, 2011.
• Price, Emmett George.   The Black church and hip hop culture : toward bridging the generational divide, 2012.
• Zaleski, Philip. The Best Spiritual Writings, 2013.

SocialLifeandCustoms

• 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today. Ed. by Gregory S. Parks, and Matthew W. Hughey, 2011.
• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, 2010.
• Anderson, Elijah. The Cosmopolitan Canopy : Race and Civility in Everyday Life, 2011.
  Anderson, Maggie and Ted Gregory. Our Black Year: one family's quest to buy Black in America's racially divided economy, 2012.
• Boyd, Gerald M. My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times, 2010.
• Davies, Sharon. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America, 2010
• Farber, Paul Lawrence. Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas, 2011.
• Gonzalez and Joseph Torres. News for All the People: the Epic Story of Race and the American Media, 2011.
• Harvey, Steve. Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man, 2010.
  Higginbotham F. Michael. The Ghost of Him Crow: Ending Racial in Post-Racial America, 2013.
• Hill, Anita. Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home , 2011.
• Izrael, Jimi. The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can't Find Good Black Men, 2010.
• King, Gilbert. Devil in the Grove:Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America, 2012.
  
• McWhirter, Cameron. The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, 2011.
• Margolick, David. Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, 2011.
• Moore, Natalie Y. and Lance Williams. The Almighty P Stone Nation: the Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang, 2011.
• Norris, Michelle. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, 2010.
• Paige, Rod and Elaine Witty. The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing it is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time, 2010.
• Peete, Thomas. Killing the messenger : a story of radical faith, racism's backlash, and the assassination of a journalist, 2012.
• Rediker, Marcus. The Amistad Rebellion: an Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, 2012.
• Rice, Condoleezza. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, 2010.
• Robinson, Eugene. Disintegration: The Splintering of Balck America, 2010.
• Rogers, Molly. Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Ninetheenth-Century America, 2010.
• Simmons, Russel. Super Rich: a Guide to Having it All, 2011.
• Skerritt, Andrew J. Ashamed to die : silence, denial, and the AIDS epidemic in the South, 2011.
• Smiley, Tavis and a Cornell West. The Rich and the Rest of Us:a Poverty Manifesto, 2012.
• Thurston, Baratunde. How to be Black, 2012.
• Unnever, James D; Gabbidon, Shaun L. A theory of African American offending : race, racism, and crime, 2011.
• Wald, Elijah. The dozens : a history of rap's mama., 2012.
• Whitaker, Mark. My Long Trip Home, 2011.
• Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, 2010.
  
• Williams, Heather Andrea. Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery, 2012.
• Womack, Ytasha L. Post Black: How a New Generation is Redifining African American Identity, 2010.

Sports

• Duru, N. Jeremi. Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL, 2011.
  Michelson, Richard; Velasquez, Eric. Twice as good : the story of William Powell and Clearview, the only golf course designed, built, and owned by an African American, 2012.
  O'Neal, Whaquille. Shaq Uncut, 2011.
  Pearlman, Jeff. Sweetness: the Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton, 2011.
  Spivey, Donald. "If you were only white" : the life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, 2012.
  Stratton, W. K. Floyd Patterson : the fighting life of boxing's invisible champion, 2012.