The library has worked with the Office of Equity and Inclusion to highlight books in our collection that address the history, health, and culture of African Americans. A couple of recent additions to the library that you’ll find in the display are Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth and Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land.
We will we have more new books to share during the month-long celebration, and we also encourage you to look at the suggested readings from Ayasha Shamsud-Din’s email:
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2012)
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Penguin Books, 1973)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2017)
- bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Routledge, 2015)
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
- Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance – a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Vintage Books, 2011)
- Michelle Obama, Becoming (Crown Publishing Group, 2018)
- Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk about Race (Seal Press, 2018)