African American History and Culture: Sources
(Published from 2005 – Present)
African-American Holidays,
Festivals, And Celebrations: The History, Customs, And Symbols Associated With
Both Traditional And Contemporary Religious And Secular Events Observed By Americans
Of African Descent / by Kathlyn Gay ; foreword by
Jean Currie Church ; introduction by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2007.
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2007
Black
Women In America /
Darlene Clark Hine, editor in chief. New York :
Oxford University Press, 2005.
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2005
Encyclopedia Of The African
Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, And Culture / Carole Boyce Davies, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
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2008
Encyclopedia Of African American History,
1896 To The Present : From The Age Of Segregation To The Twenty-First Century / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman.
New York :
Oxford University Press, 2009.
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2009
The Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Encyclopedia / Clayborne Carson ... [et al.]
; with the assistance of the King Research and Education Institute. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
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M334 2008
The African American Experience
In Vietnam: Brothers In Arms / James E.
Westheider. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008.
African Americans In The West / Douglas Flamming. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.
Afterburn:
A Novel /
Zane. New York :
Atria Books, 2005.;
Alex Cross's Trial / James Patterson and Richard DiLallo.
New York :
Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
BESTSELLERS PS3566.A822
A75 2009
Alice Walker: A Critical
Companion / Gerri Bates. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
At Canaan's Edge: America In The King
Years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On
Reclaiming The American Dream / Barack Obama. New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
Back To Africa: Benjamin Coates And
The Colonization Movement In America, 1848-1880 / edited by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Margaret Hope Bacon ; with Marc
Chalufour, Benjamin B. Miller, Meenakshi Rajan.
University
Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.
The Beautiful Struggle / Ta-Nehisi Coates. New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
Becoming Billie Holiday / Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Floyd Cooper. Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, c2008.
Beloved / Toni Morrison ; with an introduction by A.S. Byatt. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
The Best Kept Secret: Single
Black Fathers / Roberta L. Coles. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
Birthing A Slave: Motherhood And
Medicine In The Antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Press, 2006.
Black
And Brown: African Americans And The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 / Gerald Horne. New York : New York University
Press, c2005.
Black Ball. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland &
Company, c2008-.
GV875.N34 B53 Fall and Spring 2009
Black Baseball And Chicago:
Essays On The Players, Teams, And Games Of The Negro Leagues' Most Important
City / edited by Leslie A.
Heaphy. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland &
Company, c2006.
Black Masculinity And The U.S.
South: From Uncle Tom To Gangsta / Riché Richardson. Athens : University of Georgia Press,
c2007.
Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight
For Civil Rights And Economic Power / David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito.
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial
Unrest In The Fleet During The Vietnam War Era / John Darrell Sherwood. New York : New York University Press,
c2007.
Black Women In The Ivory Tower,
1850-1954: An Intellectual History / Stephanie Y. Evans. Gainesville : University Press of
Florida, c2007.
The Bluest
Eye /
Toni Morrison; with a new afterword by the author. New York : Knopf, 2005, c1993.
Breaking The Color Barrier: The U.S.
Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen And The Struggle For Racial Equality / Robert J. Schneller, Jr. New York : New York University Press,
c2005.
Brown
V. Board Of Education /
Diane Telgen. Detroit, MI :
Omnigraphics, c2005. Detroit, MI :
Omnigraphics, c2005.
Changing Faces / Kimberla Lawson Roby. New York : William Morrow, c2006.
Civil Rights Memorials And The
Geography Of Memory / Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H.
Alderman. Chicago : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago : Distributed
by the University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Claims To Memory: Beyond Slavery
And Emancipation In The French Caribbean / Catherine A. Reinhardt. New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Clinging To Mammy: The Faithful
Slave In Twentieth-Century America / Micki McElya. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Press, 2007.
The
Columbia Guide To African American History Since 1939 / edited by Robert L. Harris, Jr. and
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. New York :
Columbia University Press, c2006.
The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice And
The Creation Of The Bush Legacy / Glenn Kessler. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Cross Country: A Novel / James Patterson. New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
PS3566.A822
C77 2008
Cultural Sites Of Critical
Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, And African American And Native American Women's
Writings / edited by Angela L. Cotten and
Christa Davis Acampora. Albany : State University of New York
Press, c2007.
Digging: The Afro-American Soul
Of American Classical Music / Amiri
Baraka. Berkeley : University of California
Press, c2009.
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander, editor. New York : Library of America, 2005.
Eyes With Winged Thoughts / poetry and images by Gordon Parks.
New York :
Atria Books, 2005.
Family Properties: Race, Real
Estate, And The Exploitation Of Black Urban America / Beryl Satter. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Family Violence And Men Of Color:
Healing The Wounded Male Spirit / Ricardo Carrillo, Jerry Tello, editors. New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2008. 2nd ed.
Far More Terrible For Women:
Personal Accounts Of Women In Slavery / [edited by Patrick Minges]. Winston-Salem, NC : John F. Blair, c2006.
Fighting
For America: Black Soldiers-- The Unsung Heroes Of World War II / Christopher Paul Moore. New York : Presidio
Press/Ballantine Books 2006, c2005.
Freedom By Any Means: Con Games,
Voodoo Schemes, True Love And Lawsuits On The Underground Railroad / Betty DeRamus. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Freedom Riders: 1961 And The
Struggle For Racial Justice / Raymond
Arsenault. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Freedom's
Sword: The NAACP And The Struggle Against Racism In America, 1909-1969 / Gilbert Jonas. New York : Routledge, 2005.
Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives
And The Struggle For The Soul Of An American City / Luke Bergmann. New York : New Press : Distributed by
W.W. Norton, 2008.
Handbook Of African American Psychology / edited by Helen A. Neville, Brendesha M. Tynes, Shawn O. Utsey. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2009.
The Help / Kathryn Stockett. New York : Amy Einhorn Books, c2009.
Homegrown: Engaged Cultural
Criticism / Bell Hooks and Amalia
Mesa-Bains. Cambridge, MA : South End Press, c2006.
The
House I Live In: Race In The American Century / Robert J. Norrell. The house I live in : race in the American
century / Robert J. Norrell.
I Say A Little Prayer: A Novel / by E. Lynn Harris. New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Inclusive Scholarship: Developing
Black Studies In The United States : A 25th Anniversary Retrospective Of Ford
Foundation Grant Making, 1982-2007 / with introduction and commentary by Farah Jasmine Griffin. New York, N.Y. : Ford Foundation, c2007.
Judgment
Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Laws That Changed
America / Nick
Kotz. Boston : Houghton
Mifflin, 2005.
Kara Walker: My Complement, My
Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love / organized by
Philippe Vergne ; with texts by Sander L. Gilman ... [et al.]. Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, c2007.
Letters From Black America / edited by Pamela Newkirk. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
2009.
The
Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women In History / Gerda Lerner. Chapel Hill : University of
North Carolina Press, c2005.
Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream
For A New America / Wesley C. Hogan. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. /
John A. Kirk. New York :
Pearson Longman, 2005.
Martin Luther King, Jr. And The
Civil Rights Movement: Controversies And Debates / edited by John A. Kirk. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007.
A Matter
Of Law: A Memoir Of Struggle In The Cause Of Equal Rights / Robert L. Carter. New York : New Press, 2005.
Maxine Smith's Unwilling Pupils:
Lessons Learned In Memphis's Civil Rights Classroom / Sherry L. Hoppe, Bruce W. Speck.
Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press, c2007.
A Mercy / Toni Morrison. New York : Knopf, 2008.
Michelle: A Biography / Liza Mundy. New York : Simon & Schuster,
2008.
A Nation On Fire: America In The
Wake Of The King Assassination / Clay Risen. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons,
c2009.
Native Guard / Natasha Trethewey. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007, c2006.
No
Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics And Postwar America / Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard
University Press, 2005.
Obama: The Historic Journey / introduction by Bill Keller ; biographical text by Jill Abramson ;
editors, Vincent Alabiso ... [et al.] ; art director, Toshiya Masuda. New York : New York Times : Callaway : Distributed by
Riverhead Books, 2009.
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale
Of Love And Deception Across The Color Line / Martha A. Sandweiss. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Peace
And Freedom: The Civil Rights And Antiwar Movements Of The 1960s / Simon Hall. Philadelphia : University of
Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
The Political Worlds Of Slavery
And Freedom / Steven Hahn. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
President Obama: The Path To The White
House / [by the editors of Time
magazine] ; photographs for Time by Callie Shell – Aurora. New York : Time Book, c2008.
The Pursuit Of Happyness / by Chris Gardner. New York : Amistad, 2006.
Race, Ethnicity, And Inequality
In The U.S. Labor Market: Critical Issues In The New Millenium [sic] / special editor of this volume, George Wilson. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2007.
Racism In Maya Angelou's I Know
Why The Caged Bird Sings / Claudia
Johnson, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children
And Visions Of The Future After Slavery / Mary Niall Mitchell. New York : New York University Press,
c2008.
Ralph Ellison / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2010. New ed.
A Respectable Woman: The Public
Roles Of African American Women In 19th-Century New York / Jane E. Dabel. New York : New York University Press,
c2008.
The Secret Life Of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd. New York : Penguin, 2005.
Slavery And The Making Of America / James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton.
Oxford ; New
York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
Slavery In Colonial America,
1619-1776 / Betty Wood. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2005.
Song Yet Sung / James McBride. New York : Riverhead Books, 2008.
Sound Bites Of Protest / Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich ; foreword by Dorothy I. Height. Chicago : Third World Press, c2008.
The Sport Of The Gods: And Other
Essential Writings / edited and introduced by
Shelley Fisher Fishkin and David Bradley.
New York :
Modern Library, c2005.
Stormy Weather: The Life Of Lena
Horne / James Gavin. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Strong Men & Women: The
Series: 2007 Excellence In Leadership / written by Linnie S. Carter ; illustrated by Gary Thomas & the
late Carl Owens. [Richmond, Va.] : Dominion, c2007.
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men Of The South / E. Patrick Johnson. Chapel Hill : University of North
Carolina Press, c2008.
To Ask For An Equal Chance: African
Americans In The Great Depression / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, c2009.
Toni Morrison / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy
History Of White And Black Women In The Feminist Movement / Winifred Breines. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
We
Are All Welcome Here: A Novel / Elizabeth Berg. New York : Random House, c2006.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
After Tupac & D Foster / Jacqueline Woodson. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.W84945 Af
2008
The Blacker The Berry: Poems / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
YOUNG PEOPLE PS3570.H565
B53 2008
Day Of Tears: A Novel In Dialogue / Julius Lester. New York : Hyperion Books for Children,
c2005.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.L5629 Da
2005
Elijah Of Buxton / Christopher Paul Curtis. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.C94137 El
2007
Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.W868 Fe
2007
Henry's Freedom Box / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson. New York : Scholastic Press, c2007.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.L57833
Hen 2007
Keeping The Night Watch / Hope Anita Smith ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.5.S54 Ke
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Langston Hughes / edited by Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel ; illustrations by
Benny Andrews. New York : Sterling Pub., [2006], c1994.
YOUNG PEOPLE PS3515.U274
A6 2006
Let It Shine: Three Favorite
Spirituals / [illustrated by] Ashley
Bryan. New York : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c2007.
YOUNG PEOPLE BV353 .L48
2007
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American
Girl / Tonya Bolden. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
YOUNG PEOPLE F128.9.N4 B65
2005
The Moon Over Star / by Dianna Hutts Aston ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2008.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.A8483 Moo
2008
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led
Her People To Freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ;
illustrated by Kadir Nelson. New York : Hyperion Books for Children,
c2006.
YOUNG PEOPLE E444.T82 W43
2006x
November Blues / Sharon M. Draper. New York : Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c2007.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.D78325 No
2007
Rosa / Nikki Giovanni ; illustrated by Bryan Collier. New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
YOUNG PEOPLE F334.M753 P38427
2005
Show Way / Jacqueline Woodson ; illustrated by Hudson Talbott. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2005.
YOUNG PEOPLE PZ7.W868 Sh
2005
African American Lives / a film by Kunhardt Productions ; executive producers, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt ; written by Henry Louis Gates.
Jr. ; series producers, Graham Judd, Leslie D. Farrell ; a production of Kunhardt
Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.
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The Land Where The Blues Began / written, directed and produced by Alan Lomax. [United States] : Media-Generation, 2006. DVD
MEDIA ML3521 .L364x
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Mighty
Times: The Children's March / produced and directed by Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston. Montgomery, Ala. : Teaching
Tolerance, c2005. DVD and Teacher’s
Guide.
MEDIA F334.B6 M66
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MEDIA CIRCULATION
DESK F334.B6 M66 2005 Teacher’s
Guide
Revolution '67 / produced & directed by Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno ; a co-production
of Bongiorno Productions, Inc., The Independent Television Service (ITVS), and
P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc. ; in association with WSKG. [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, [2007?]. DVD.
MEDIA HV6481.N5 R48
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Unforgivable
Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson / a Florentine Films productions ; PBS ;
produced by David Schaye, Paul Barnes, Ken Burnes ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward
; a film directed by Ken Burns. Hollywood,
Calif. : Paramount : PBS Home Video, c2005.
DVD
MEDIA GV1132.J6 U54
2005
The Untold Story Of Emmett Louis
Till / produced and directed by Keith
A. Beauchamp ; a Till Freedom Come production.
[New York,
N.Y.] : Thinkfilm, c2005. DVD
MEDIA E185.6
.U58653 2006
OTHER RESOURCES:
NetLibrary:
From the Library Homepage - http://www.stark.kent.edu/library
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AV. (from the list of links on the left side of
the page). Scroll down to Online
Books and Click on netLibrary.
This resource has many books available online. Try a keyword search such as: “African Americans.”
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