LibGuides: Events and Displays: Black History Month

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Black History Month: Print Books Listed by Author
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African American Read In Further Reading (From The Creative Writing Group at SLCC)
A list of authors and works from the Creative Writing Group at SLCC, compiled in 2022.

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Films (Black History Month)

Summer of Soul
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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12 Years a Slave
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Hidden Figures
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Black History Month Collection in Films on Demand
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E-books (Black History Month)

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Black Lives Matter by Duchess Harris
ISBN: 9781532113949
Publication Date: 2017
Black Power by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
ISBN: 9781421429762
Publication Date: 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780593230251
Publication Date: 2020
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288
Publication Date: 2019
Passing by Nella Larsen; Maggie Lily (Illustrator); Darryl Pinckney (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781632062024
Publication Date: 2018
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman by Gale P. Jackson
ISBN: 9781496217684
Publication Date: 2020
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
ISBN: 9781469653662
Publication Date: 2019
Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair by William Evans
ISBN: 9781943735211
Publication Date: 2017
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
ISBN: 9781556594861
Publication Date: 2019
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
ISBN: 9780525619772
Publication Date: 2018
Why Didn't We Riot? by Issac J. Bailey
ISBN: 9781635420289
Publication Date: 2020

African American Read In: Library-Owned Titles (2022)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Call Number: South City Campus Library- SO475U
ISBN: 9781617755880
Publication Date: 2017
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781555977856
Publication Date: 2017
Includes the poem "Dear White America"
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library- Young Adult ST722D
ISBN: 9781984829665
Publication Date: 2020

Well-Read Literature (Black History Month)

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781400033416
Publication Date: 2004
The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780486461342
Publication Date: 2008
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780393040906
Publication Date: 1997
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780156028356
Publication Date: 2003
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781608468560
Publication Date: 2017
Fences by August Wilson
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780452264014
Publication Date: 1986
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: South City Campus Library
ISBN: 9780553279375
Publication Date: 1983
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library- W5872N
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: South City Campus Library
ISBN: 9780060838676
Publication Date: 2013

Recently Added Print Books (Black History Month)

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780593465271
Publication Date: 2021
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown (Editor)
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781849353267
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
Textures by Tameka Ellington (Editor); Joseph L. Underwood (Editor)
Call Number: South City Campus Library
ISBN: 9783777435541
Publication Date: 2020-11-03
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781524761738
Publication Date: 2019
Girl Gurl Grrrl by Kenya Hunt
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780062987648
Publication Date: 2020
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780062914668
Publication Date: 2021
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780814255995
Publication Date: 2020
Son of a Southern Chef by Lazarus Lynch
Call Number: Miller Campus Library
ISBN: 9780525534174
Publication Date: 2019
The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition by Sonya Renee Taylor
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781523090990
Publication Date: 2021
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
Call Number: Jordan Campus Library
ISBN: 9781523091300
Publication Date: 2020
Race Man by Michael G. Long (Editor); Julian Bond; Pamela Horowitz (Preface by); Jeanne Theoharis (Preface by); Douglas Brinkley (Afterword by)
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780872867949
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Black Girl Baking by Jerrelle Guy
Call Number: Miller Campus Library
ISBN: 9781624145124
Publication Date: 2018
Dandy Lion: the Black Dandy and Street Style by Shantrelle P. Lewis
Call Number: South City Campus Library
ISBN: 9781597113892
Publication Date: 2017
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
Call Number: Miller Campus Library
ISBN: 9781250112880
Publication Date: 2019
Black Food by Bryant Terry (Editor)
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781984859723
Publication Date: 2021-10-19
African American Chemists by Sibrina Collins (Editor)
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780841298385
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Making Black Scientists by Marybeth Gasman; Nguyen Thai-Huy
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9780674916586
Publication Date: 2019-08-13
Recasting the Vote by Cathleen D. Cahill
Call Number: Redwood Campus Library
ISBN: 9781469659329
Publication Date: 2020-11-16
Beer and Racism by David Brunsma; Nathaniel G. Chapman
Call Number: Miller Campus Library
ISBN: 9781529201796
Publication Date: 2020-10-14
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Call Number: Redwood- Young Adult J646Y
ISBN: 9781338503265
Publication Date: 2020-06-02