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William F. Ekstrom Library

Black History Month - Spotlight Series: Books

This guide contains suggested readings and films available at Ekstrom for celebrating Black history and culture.

Adult Fiction

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0151191549
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
ISBN: 0345401123
Publication Date: 1995-06-27
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: https://uofl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/794366985
ISBN: 9780307271082
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Anthony Appiah (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780307743855
Publication Date: 1992-12-15
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385542364
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
ISBN: 0060557540
Publication Date: 2003-08-14
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780525521273
Publication Date: 2019-08-27
The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
ISBN: 006294293X
Publication Date: 2021-08-24
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780062359988
Publication Date: 2016-08-09
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780525535270
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories (LOA #97) by James Baldwin; Toni Morrison (Editor)
ISBN: 9781883011512
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
ISBN: 9780735216723
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
ISBN: 9781594486340
Publication Date: 2013-08-20
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781608195220
Publication Date: 2011-10-03
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781501126062
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
ISBN: 9781594486005
Publication Date: 2014-10-02
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
ISBN: 9780812993455
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
ISBN: 9780316509848
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
ISBN: 9780756406172
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 0807083690
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
ISBN: 9780385544238
Publication Date: 2018-11-20
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
ISBN: 9780374260507
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
Erasure by Percival Everett
ISBN: 1584650907
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 0375507914
Publication Date: 2002-03-05
Native Son by Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780060837563
Publication Date: 2005-08-02
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
ISBN: 9781617755880
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
ISBN: 9780802125392
Publication Date: 2017-01-03
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
ISBN: 9780446690898
Publication Date: 2003-08-01
It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
ISBN: 9781984823748
Publication Date: 2020-03-31
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
ISBN: 9780670869909
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780307264237
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
Blood Grove by Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9780316491181
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
ISBN: 9781524711771
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780525558996
Publication Date: 2019-10-08
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780756964337
Publication Date: 2006-01-01

New and Noteworthy

Nine Days by Paul Kendrick; Stephen Kendrick
ISBN: 9781250155702
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Breathe by Imani Perry
ISBN: 9780807076552
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Elegy for Mary Turner by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams; Mariame Kaba (Introduction by); Julie Armstrong (Afterword by); C. Tyrone Forehand (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9781788739047
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
Rosa Parks by Darryl Mace
ISBN: 9781440868429
Publication Date: 2021-01-13
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
ISBN: 9781948226745
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
A History of the Harlem Renaissance by Rachel Farebrother (Editor); Miriam Thaggert (Editor)
ISBN: 9781108493574
Publication Date: 2021-02-04
Above the Rim by Jen Bryant; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419741081
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
America in Denial by Lori Latrice Martin
ISBN: 9781438482972
Publication Date: 2021-05-01
Against Civility by Alex Zamalin
ISBN: 9780807026540
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
A Shot in the Moonlight by Ben Montgomery
ISBN: 9780316535540
Publication Date: 2021-01-26
A Kick in the Belly by Stella Abasa Dadzie
ISBN: 9781788738842
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations by David A. Harris
ISBN: 9781785271137
Publication Date: 2020-01-10
Antiblackness by Moon-Kie Jung (Editor); João H. Costa Vargas (Editor)
ISBN: 9781478010692
Publication Date: 2021-04-09
Anti-Racism (Words of Change Series) by Kenrya Rankin
ISBN: 9781632173409
Publication Date: 2020-07-23
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
ISBN: 9781523091300
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Black or Right by Louis M. Maraj
ISBN: 9781646421466
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page
ISBN: 9781107141773
Publication Date: 2021-01-28
Black Women's Yoga History by Stephanie Y. Evans; Jana Long (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781438483634
Publication Date: 2021-03-01
Do Better by Rachel Ricketts
ISBN: 9781982151270
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
ISBN: 9780593134047
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9780802149565
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Some Other Blues by Jean-Philippe Marcoux (Editor)
ISBN: 9780814257845
Publication Date: 2021-02-11
Reporting on Race in a Digital Era by Carolyn Nielsen
ISBN: 9783030352202
Publication Date: 2020-02-20
Relative Races by Brigitte Fielder
ISBN: 9781478010104
Publication Date: 2020-10-30
Pleasure in the News by Kim Gallon
ISBN: 9780252043222
Publication Date: 2020-05-25
Maya Angelou (Revised and Updated Edition) by Linda Wagner-Martin
ISBN: 9781501365584
Publication Date: 2021-01-14
Mama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
ISBN: 9781642594041
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by Lisa Yaszek (Editor); Isiah Lavender III (Editor)
ISBN: 9780814214459
Publication Date: 2020-08-20
Traveling Black by Mia Bay
ISBN: 9780674979963
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
In Search of the Color Purple by Salamishah Tillet
ISBN: 9781419735301
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Black to Nature by Stefanie K. Dunning
ISBN: 9781496832948
Publication Date: 2021-05-30
Light for the World to See by Kwame Alexander; Kwame Alexander
ISBN: 9780358539414
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
White Fright by Jane Dailey
ISBN: 9781541646551
Publication Date: 2020-11-17
White Freedom by Tyler Stovall
ISBN: 9780691179469
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
ISBN: 9781469661179
Publication Date: 2021-03-22
Vénus Noire by Robin Mitchell; Richard S. Newman; Patrick Rael; Manisha Sinha
ISBN: 9780820354323
Publication Date: 2020-01-30
Trouble of the World by Zach Sell
ISBN: 9781469661346
Publication Date: 2021-01-18

Non-Fiction

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780679763888
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor); Mae G. Henderson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822336181
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Betrayal by Houston Baker Jr.
ISBN: 9780231139649
Publication Date: 2008-03-03
Black Power by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
ISBN: 9781421429762
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
After Civil Rights by John D. Skrentny
ISBN: 9780691159966
Publication Date: 2013-12-01
Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins
ISBN: 9780415951500
Publication Date: 2005-07-14
Chokehold by Paul Butler
ISBN: 9781620974834
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Closer to Freedom by Stephanie M. H. Camp
ISBN: 0807828726
Publication Date: 2004-09-13
Black Males and Racism by Terence D. Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781612055510
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Breaking Barriers by Douglas Stark
ISBN: 9781442277533
Publication Date: 2018-12-15
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
ISBN: 9781250112880
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Therí Alyce Pickens
ISBN: 9781478003748
Publication Date: 2019-06-07
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire; Aimé Césaire
ISBN: 9781583670248
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing
ISBN: 9780226526027
Publication Date: 2018-10-05
Technicolored by Ann duCille
ISBN: 9781478000396
Publication Date: 2018-09-14
Reproductive Injustice by Dána-Ain Davis
ISBN: 9781479812271
Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Homey Don't Play That! by David Peisner (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781501143328
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Black Radio/Black Resistance by Micaela di Leonardo
ISBN: 9780190870188
Publication Date: 2019-06-24
Afrofuturism Rising by Isiah Lavender III
ISBN: 9780814214138
Publication Date: 2019-10-09
White Logic, White Methods by Tukufu Zuberi (Editor); Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Editor)
ISBN: 9780742542808
Publication Date: 2008-05-02
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
ISBN: 9780393285673
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
Unmasking Prejudice by Melodye Hilton
ISBN: 9781620236321
Publication Date: 2019-03-14
Unequal Freedom by Evelyn Nakano Glenn
ISBN: 0674013727
Publication Date: 2004-04-15
The Practice of Citizenship by Derrick R. Spires
ISBN: 9780812250800
Publication Date: 2019-03-08
The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola
ISBN: 9780691181547
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X by Robert E. Terrill (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521515900
Publication Date: 2010-05-17
The Black and the Blue by Matthew Horace; Ron Harris
ISBN: 9780316440080
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Call Number: https://uofl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/711045639
ISBN: 9780300165418
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
ISBN: 0394713516
Publication Date: 1983-02-12
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780394429861
Publication Date: 1970-01-12
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
ISBN: 9780345379757
Publication Date: 1992-09-29
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
ISBN: 9781416590316
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Becoming by Michelle Obama
ISBN: 9781524763138
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780307455871
Publication Date: 2008-07-15
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
ISBN: 9780307378453
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780399590566
Publication Date: 2017-10-03