African American History Booklist

Music    

M1630.18 C37 1997

Chess blues classics, 1947-1956 [sound recording].

 

M1630.18.B6 J25 1993

The sky is crying [sound recording] : the history of Elmore James.

James, Elmore, 1918-1963

M1630.18.C65 I24 1978

Ice pickin' [sound recording] /

Collins, Albert, 1932-1993

M1630.18.G89 V47 1992

The very best of Buddy Guy [sound recording] /

Guy, Buddy

M1630.18.H66 B47 1992

The best of John Lee Hooker 1965 to 1974 [sound recording]

Hooker, John Lee

M1630.18.H66 B47 2001

The best of John Lee Hooker [sound recording].

Hooker, John Lee

M1630.18.H69 B58 2005

The blues anthology [sound recording] /

Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976.

M1630.18.K4965 K56 1989

King of the blues guitar [sound recording] /

King, Albert, 1923-

M1630.18.K56 S56 2005

Singin' the blues [sound recording] /

King, B. B.

M1630.18.M39 Y68 1989

You gotta move. [sound recording].

McDowell, Fred

M1630.18.W5362 K56 2000

King Biscuit time [sound recording] /

Williamson, Sonny Boy, d. 1965

M1670 .M57 1993

Mississippi Delta blues [sound recording].

 

M1670 .P67 1993

Postmodern blues [sound recording].

 

M1670.H767 J64 1991

John Lee Hooker [sound recording] : the ultimate collection, 1948-1990.

Hooker, John Lee

M1681.A1 B47 2001

The best of the Caribbean [sound recording].

 

Reference Books    

E184.6 .F56 2004

Sources of the African American past : primary sources in American history /

Finkenbine, Roy E.

E184.A1 E594 1999

American civil rights : biographies /

Engelbert, Phillis

E184.A1 E773 2005

Encyclopedia of racism in the United States /

 

E185 .M375 2004

The African American experience in cyberspace : a resource guide to the best Web

McWorter, Gerald A.

E185 .S797 2003

The African American years /

Stepto, Gabriel

E185.61 .A37 2004x

Africana : civil rights : an A-to-Z reference of the movement that changed Ameri

 

E185.96 .B545 1999x

Black writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors.

 

GV583 .A567 2004bx

African Americans in sports /

 

HV8141 .P26 2004

Racial profiling /

Pampel, Fred C.

JC599 .U5 E54 1999

American civil rights : almanac /

Engelbert, Phillis

NX512.3.A35 H69 2001

Harlem Renaissance /

Howes, Kelly King

PN452 .M88 2004

Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide /

 

PN841 .I74 2004

The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature /

Irele, Abiola

PN841.S36 1996

The Schomburg Center guide to black literature : from the eighteenth century to

 

PS153.M56 L56 2004

Contemporary American ethnic poets : lives, works, sources /

Cullum, Linda E.

PS3563.O8749 Z913 2003

The Toni Morrison encyclopedia /

 

PS374.N4 C658 1999

Contemporary African American novelists : a bio-bibliographical critical sourceb

 

U52 .S88 2004

African Americans at war : an encyclopedia /

Sutherland, Jonathan

Books    

BL2532.R37 L44513 2003

The first Rasta : Leonard Howell and the rise of Rastafarianism /

Lee, Helene

BL625.2 .S73 2003

Standing in the need of prayer : a celebration of African-American prayer /

 

BP173.4 .R68 2004

Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam /

Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-

BP223.Z8 R53 2003

Betty Shabazz : a remarkable story of survival and faith before and after Malcol

Rickford, Russell John

BP223.Z8 T37 2005

Little X : growing up in the Nation of Islam /

Tate, Sonsyrea

BR563.N4 M38 2003

Streets of glory : church and community in a Black urban neighborhood /

McRoberts, Omar M.

BR563.N4 M58 2004

Black church beginnings : the long-hidden realities of the first years /

Mitchell, Henry H.

BR563.N4 T387 2004

Religion in the lives of African Americans : social, psychological, and health p

Taylor, Robert Joseph

BR563.N4 W513 2003

This far by faith : stories from the African-American religious experience /

Williams, Juan

BV313 .W35 1991

Spirits that dwell in deep woods : the prayer and praise hymns of the Black reli

Walker, Wyatt Tee

D1056.2.A7 R36 2004

Blackening Europe : the African American presence /

 

E184.65 .E76 2004

Liberation historiography : African American writers and the challenge of histor

Ernest, John

E184.A1 W455 2004

My soul looks back in wonder : voices of the civil rights experience /

Williams, Juan

E184.N55 O36 2003

The Nigerian Americans /

Ogbaa, Kalu

E185 .C66 2005

A companion to African American history /

 

E185.6 .D797 2005

The illustrated Souls of Black folk /

Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963

E185.6 .D797325 2004

Saving the race : conversations on Du Bois from a collective memoir of souls /

Carroll, Rebecca

E185.6 .N165 2004

Enter the new Negroes : images of race in American culture /

Nadell, Martha Jane

E185.61 .B774 2004

We shall overcome /

Boyd, Herb, 1938-

E185.61 .R514 2004

The civil rights movement : struggle and resistance /

Riches, William Terence Martin, 1939-

E185.61 .S315 2004

The civil rights revolution : events and leaders, 1955-1968 /

Sargent, Frederic O.

E185.61 .S6144 2004

Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy /

Singh, Nikhil Pal

E185.61 .S615 2001

Sisters in the struggle : African American women in the civil rights-black power

 

E185.615 .A8 2003

Erasing racism : the survival of the American nation /

Asante, Molefi K., 1942-

E185.615 .E16 2003

This is where I came in : Black America in the 1960s /

Early, Gerald Lyn

E185.615 .E86 2003b

Everything but the burden : what white people are taking from Black culture /

 

E185.615 .G465 2005

Post-soul nation : the explosive, contradictory, triumphant, and tragic 1980s as

George, Nelson

E185.615 .H274 2005

Peace and freedom : the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s /

Hall, Simon, 1976-

E185.615 .K374 2004

The head Negro in charge syndrome : the death of Black politics /

Kelley, Norman, 1954-

E185.615 .M354 2004

Authentically Black : essays for the Black silent majority /

McWhorter, John H.

E185.625 .D969 2004

The Michael Eric Dyson reader /

Dyson, Michael Eric

E185.625 .J657 2003

Shifting : the double lives of Black women in America /

Jones, Charisse

E185.8 .S53 2004

The hidden cost of being African-American : how wealth perpetuates inequality /

Shapiro, Thomas M.

E185.86 .C58167 2005x

Black sexual politics : African Americans, gender, and the new racism /

Hill Collins, Patricia.

E185.86 .C58829 2003x

The envy of the world : on being a Black man in America /

Cose, Ellis

E185.86 .D945 2005

Is Bill Cosby right? : or has the Black middle class lost its mind? /

Dyson, Michael Eric

E185.86 .M427 2006

Winning the race : beyond the crisis in Black America /

McWhorter, John H.

E185.86 .R385 2004

American paradox : young Black men /

Reese, Renford, 1967-

E185.86 .R77 2004

Manning the race : reforming Black men in the Jim Crow era /

Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956-

E185.86 .S53 2004x

The sweet breath of life : a poetic narrative of the African-American family /

Shange, Ntozake

E185.89 .R45 B76 2004

Atonement and forgiveness : a new model for Black reparations /

Brooks, Roy L. 1950-

E185.89.R45 R475 2004

Reparations for slavery : a reader /

 

E185.89.R45 S56 2003

Should America pay? : slavery and the raging debate on reparations /

 

E185.93.A3 G35 2004

Cradle of freedom : Alabama and the movement that changed America /

Gaillard, Frye, 1946-

E185.96 .B5645 2004

Children of the movement : the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Ma

Blake, John

E185.96 .S225 1994

The black 100 : a ranking of the most influential African-Americans, past and pr

Salley, Columbus

E185.96 .W43 2004

A wealth of wisdom : legendary African American elders speak /

 

E185.97 .C6A6 1999x

Soul on ice /

Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-

E185.97 .R63 A3 1988

Here I stand /

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

E185.97 .W3166 1996

Up from slavery /

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

E185.97.A18 A3 2004

We want freedom : a life in the Black Panther Party /

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

E185.97.B26 A3 1972x

Crusade for justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells /

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931

E185.97.D73 A25 2004

The social theory of W.E.B. Du Bois /

Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963

E185.97.D73 S68 2005

W.E.B. Du Bois : scholar and activist /

Stafford, Mark

E185.97.K49 L87 2004

Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King /

Lupold, John S., 1942-

E185.97.K5 P45 2003

An act of state : the execution of Martin Luther King /

Pepper, William, 1937-

E185.97.R665 A3 1998

Defending the spirit : a Black life in America /

Robinson, Randall, 1941-

E185.97.S28 A3 2005

The autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough : an American journey from slav

Scarborough, W. S. 1852-1926

E185.97.W6 J36 2003

White : the biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP /

Janken, Kenneth Robert, 1956-

E310.7 .B76 2005

Toussaint's clause : the founding fathers and the Haitian revolution /

Brown, Gordon S., 1936-

E441 .B47 2003

Generations of captivity : a history of African-American slaves /

Berlin, Ira, 1941-

E446 .B58 2005

Slave nation : how slavery united the colonies & sparked the American Revolution

Blumrosen, Alfred W.

E449 .C86 1993

Courage and conscience : Black and white abolitionists in Boston /

 

E449.D738 2003c

My bondage and my freedom /

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

E450 .D47 2005

Forbidden fruit : love stories from the Underground Railroad /

DeRamus, Betty.

E451.R49 2005

John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, an

Reynolds, David S., 1948-

E540 .N3 F73 2004

Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War /

 

E540.N3 W72 2002

Campfires of freedom : the camp life of Black soldiers during the Civil War /

Wilson, Keith P., 1944-

E725.5.N3 S8 2003

Buffalo soldiers : the colored regulars in the United States Army /

Steward, T. G. 1843-1924

F234.H23 E54 2004

Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 /

Engs, Robert Francis

F358.2.N4 B83 2004

Black life on the Mississippi : slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat w

Buchanan, Thomas C., 1967-

F548.9.M5 A38 2000

Gabriel's fire /

Aguilera, Luis Gabriel

F73.9.N4 K46 2004

Sarah's long walk : the free Blacks of Boston and how their struggle for equalit

Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-

GV1196.J64 W37 2004

Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson /

Ward, Geoffrey C.

GV875.N35 L36 2004

Negro league baseball : the rise and ruin of a Black institution /

Lanctot, Neil, 1966-

HD2346.U52 S34 2003

Reefer madness : sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market /

Schlosser, Eric

HD6057.5.U5 C47 2003b

Having it all? : Black women and success /

Chambers, Veronica

HD9970.5.C672 W3558 2004

Her dream of dreams : the rise and triumph of Madam C.J. Walker /

Lowry, Beverly

HF5549.5.C35 M674 2001

Stories employers tell : race, skill, and hiring in America /

Moss, Philip I.

HN90.M6 H36 2004

Fugitive thought : prison movements, race, and the meaning of justice /

Hames-Garcia, Michael Roy

HQ74.2.U5 B69 2005

Beyond the down low : sex, lies, and denial in black America /

Boykin, Keith

HT1521 .W45 2005

White on white/black on black /

 

HV6464 .M37 2004

Legacies of lynching : racial violence and memory /

Markovitz, Jonathan

HV6465.G4 W49 2004

Fire in a canebrake : the last mass lynching in America /

Wexler, Laura, 1971-

HV6564.S68 S66 2004

Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South /

Sommerville, Diane Miller

HV7936.R3 .H65 2004

The color of guilt & innocence : racial profiling and police practices in Americ

Holbert, Steve

HV8141 .C37 2005

Good cop, bad cop : racial profiling and competing views of justice /

Heumann, Milton

HV8699.U5 F54 2004

Jurors' stories of death : how America's death penalty invests in inequality /

Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin, 1970-

HV9468.J3 A4 1994

Soledad brother : the prison letters of George Jackson /

Jackson, George, 1941-1971

KF223.P56 F574 2004x

Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalize

Fireside, Harvey

KF373.M64 A34 1999

Equal justice under law : an autobiography /

Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-

KF4155 .B758 2003

Brown v. Board of Education : caste, culture, and the Constitution /

Cottrol, Robert J.

KF4755 .S23 2005

Toxic diversity : race, gender, and law talk in America /

Subotnik, Dan

KF4757 .W45 2004

Black trials : citizenship from the beginnings of slavery to the end of caste /

Weiner, Mark Stuart

KF511.K46 2004

Interracial intimacies : sex, marriage, identity, and adoption /

Kennedy, Randall, 1954-

LC212.72 .S36 2004

Is separate unequal? : Black colleges and the challenge to desegregation /

Samuels, Albert L. 1966-

LC214.523.B67 E38 2001

The other Boston busing story : what's won and lost across the boundary line /

Eaton, Susan E.

LC214.523.B67 F67 2004

Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s /

Formisano, Ronald P., 1939-

LC2731 .E34 2005

Educating African American males : voices from the field /

 

LC2741 .W55 2004

I'll find a way or make one : a tribute to historically Black colleges and unive

Williams, Juan

LC2781 .G33 2005

Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for

Gallien, Louis B.

LC2781.7 .D38 2004

Black students' perceptions : the complexity of persistence to graduation at an

Davis, R. Deborah, 1945-

ML2911 .C67 2004

In spirit and in truth : the music of African American worship /

Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-

ML3479 .B76 2004

Lost sounds : blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919 /

Brooks, Tim

ML3506 .J47 2003

Jazz planet /

 

ML3556 .R32 2003

Race music : black cultures from behop to hip hop /

Ramsey, Guthrie P.

ML420.J735 S37 2004

Robert Johnson, mythmaking, and contemporary American culture /

Schroeder, Patricia R., 1951-

ML420.J735 W35 2004

Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues /

Wald, Elijah

N6538.N5 B65 2004

Wake up our souls : a celebration of Black American artists /

Bolden, Tonya

NC1429.H527 A4 2004

Hirschfeld's Harlem /

Hirschfeld, Al

NK9112 .H53 2003

Black threads : an African American quilting sourcebook /

Hicks, Kyra E., 1965-

NK9112 .W33 2001x

Signs & symbols : African images in African American quilts /

Wahlman, Maude

NX512.3.A35H8 1973x

Harlem renaissance /

Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1927-

NX512.3.N5 W38 1995x

The Harlem renaissance : hub of African-American culture, 1920-1930 /

Watson, Steven

P94.5.M552 U6275 2004

The artificial white man : essays on authenticity /

Crouch, Stanley

PN1992.8.A34 A28 2004

Revolution televised : prime time and the struggle for Black power /

Acham, Christine

PN1995.9.N4 M33 2003

Black city cinema : African American urban experiences in film /

Massood, Paula J., 1965-

PN1995.9.N4 R47 1997

Representing Blackness : issues in film and video /

 

PN4882.5 .R66 2004

Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made the

Rooks, Noliwe M., 1963-

PS1292.C6 A6 2004

The northern stories of Charles W. Chesnutt /

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932

PS1292.C6 Z94 2004

Whiteness in the novels of Charles W. Chesnutt /

Wilson, Matthew, 1949-

PS310.N4 B65 2004

Afro-blue : improvisations in African American poetry and culture /

Bolden, Tony

PS310.N4 C48 2005

"After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement /

Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-

PS338.N4 K73 2002

A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Ha

Krasner, David, 1952-

PS3507.U147 Q46 2004

The quest of the silver fleece : a novel /

Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963

PS3515.U274 Z5 1993

The big sea : an autobiography /

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

PS3515.U274 Z676 2004

Langston Hughes : a biography /

Leach, Laurie F.

PS3545.E82794 A6 2005x

Where the wild grape grows : selected writings, 1930-1950 /

West, Dorothy, 1909-

PS3552.R4849 S57 1995

Sisters & lovers /

Briscoe, Connie

PS3553.A4395 W48 2002x

What you owe me : a novel /

Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-

PS3553.A78944 P76 1999

Pride : a novel /

Cary, Lorene

PS3553.L389 W48 2002

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day-- /

Cleage, Pearl

PS3554.I319 L57 2002x

Liar's game /

Dickey, Eric Jerome

PS3554.I319 M55 2000

Milk in my coffee /

Dickey, Eric Jerome

PS3555.L625 A6 2003

The collected essays of Ralph Ellison /

Ellison, Ralph

PS3555.L625 I5356 2004

Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man /

 

PS3555.L625 Z625 2005

The Cambridge companion to Ralph Ellison /

 

PS3555.L625 Z73 2004

A historical guide to Ralph Ellison /

 

PS3555.V34 E73 2001

Erasure : a novel /

Everett, Percival L.

PS3557.I55 A17 2003x

The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 /

Giovanni, Nikki

PS3558.A64438 N68 2000

Not a day goes by : a novel /

Harris, E. Lynn

PS3560.A2553 B63 2004

Bobweaving Detroit : the selected poems of Murray Jackson /

Jackson, Murray

PS3560.O483 H34 1999

The healing /

Jones, Gayl

PS3561.I37 Y6 2000

Youngblood /

Killens, John Oliver, 1916-

PS3562.I78276 I83 1999x

The itch : a novel /

Little, Benilde

PS3562.O75 Z23 1982bx

Zami : a new spelling of my name /

Lorde, Audre

PS3563.C3825 B69 2005

Blues dancing : a novel /

McKinney-Whetstone, Diane

PS3563.C3825 T86 1997

Tumbling /

McKinney-Whetstone, Diane

PS3563.C3868 D3 2005

A day late and a dollar short /

McMillan, Terry

PS3563.C3868 W35 2005

Waiting to exhale /

McMillan, Terry

PS3563.O8749 J38 2004

Jazz : a novel /

Morrison, Toni

PS3563.O8749 L68 2003

Love /

Morrison, Toni

PS3563.O8749 Z77 2004

Toni Morrison's developing class consciousness /

Mbalia, Doreatha D.

PS3564.A895 Z465 2004

Conversations with Gloria Naylor /

Naylor, Gloria

PS3569.A4877 H47 1994

Her own place : a novel /

Sanders, Dori, 1934-

PS3570.Y59 D6 2004x

A do right man : a novel /

Tyree, Omar

PS3570.Y59 F67 2003x

For the love of money : a novel /

Tyree, Omar

PS3572.E63 G66 1995

The good Negress /

Verdelle, A. J., 1960-

PS3573.A425 Z93 2004

Alice Walker : a life /

White, Evelyn C., 1954-

PS3573.E8148 A77 2002

Ain't nobody's business if I do /

Wesley, Valerie Wilson

PS3573.H4768 I58 2000

The intuitionist /

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

PS3573.H4768 J64 2002x

John Henry Days : a novel /

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

PS3573.I26 S4 1997

Sent for you yesterday /

Wideman, John Edgar

PS3573.I45677 Z89 2004

August Wilson : a literary companion /

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen

PS3573.R4938 S8 2000

Sunday you learn how to box : a novel /

Wright, Bil

PS3626.A63 C46 2004

Chocolate flava : the eroticanoir.com anthology /

Zane.

PS508.N3 M9 2002

My soul has grown deep : classics of early African-American literature /

 

PS509.H57 F74 2005x

Freedom in this village : twenty-five years of black gay men's writing, 1979 to

 

PS591.N4O97 2006

The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry /

 

PZ7.S1977 C1 1990

Clover : a novel /

Sanders, Dori, 1934-

RA643.83.L48 2004

The secret epidemic : the story of AIDS and Black America /

Levenson, Jacob

RA778.4.A36 G38 2004

Dr. Gavin's health guide for African Americans /

Gavin, James R., 1945-

RL91 .W53 2004

Kinki kreations : a parent's guide to natural black hair care for kids /

Williams, Jena Renee

T21 .T4295 2004

Technology and the African-American experience : needs and opportunities for stu

 

TR680 .O55 2003

Only skin deep : changing visions of the American self /

 

TX715 .T5682 2003x

Celebrating our equality : a cookbook with recipes and remembrances from the How

Tillery, Carolyn Quick

UA31 10th .L4197 2003

The buffalo soldiers : a narrative of the Black cavalry in the West /

Leckie, William H.

UB418.A47 2004

The African-American soldier : from Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell /

Lanning, Michael Lee

VB324.A47 M55 2004

The messman chronicles : African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 /

Miller, Richard E., 1946-