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"Explore essential titles selected by the Schomburg Center as it marks 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture."
All the Women are White, all the Blacks are Men, but Some of Us are Brave : Black Women's Studies
by
Gloria T. Hull (Editor); Patricia Bell Scott (Editor); Barbara Smith (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .A4 1982
ISBN: 0912670959
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
by
Terrance Hayes
Call Number: PS3558.A8378 A6 2018
ISBN: 9780143133186
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
by
Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: PN56.D4 D36 2017
ISBN: 9781555977771
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by
Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57943 1992
ISBN: 0345379756
Bad Feminist: Essays
by
Roxane Gay
Call Number: HQ1421 .G39 2014
ISBN: 9780062282712
Between the World and Me
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
ISBN: 9780812993547
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Call Number: BF575.P9 E34 2019
ISBN: 9780735224933
The Black Jacobins; Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by
C.L.R. James
Call Number: F1923.T734 J27 B6
A Black Women's History of the United States
by
Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: E185.86 .B475 2020
ISBN: 0807033553
The Bluest Eye
by
Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B55 1994
ISBN: 0452273056
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
by
Imani Perry
Call Number: E185.86 .P477 2019
ISBN: 9780807076552
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
by
Marlon James
Call Number: PR9265.9.J358 B75 2014
ISBN: 9781594486005
Brown: Poems
by
Kevin Young
Call Number: PS3575.O798 A6 2018
ISBN: 9781524732547
Brutal Imagination: Poems
by
Cornelius Eady
Call Number: PS3555.A35 B78 2001
ISBN: 9780399147180
Citizen
by
Claudia Rankine
Call Number: PS3568.A572 A6 2014
ISBN: 9781555976903
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
by
Lucille Clifton
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781942683001
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
by
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780674054325
The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South
by
Michael W. Twitty
Call Number: E185.89.F66 T95 2017
ISBN: 9780062379290
Democracy in Black: How Race still Enslaves the American Soul
by
Eddie S. Glaude
ISBN: 9780804137416
Diasporic Blackness
by
Vanessa K. Valdes
Call Number: E185.97.S36 V35 2017
ISBN: 9781438465135
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
by
Danez Smith
Call Number: PS3619.M5748 A6 2017
ISBN: 1555977855
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower
by
Brittney Cooper
Call Number: HQ1413.C67 C67 2018
ISBN: 1250112575
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
by
Leah Penniman; Karen Washington (Foreword by)
Call Number: HD1476.U6 P46 2018
ISBN: 9781603587617
Feel Free: Essays
by
Zadie Smith
Call Number: PR6069.M59 A6 2018
ISBN: 9781594206252
Fences: A Play
by
August Wilson
Call Number: PS3573.I45677 F4 1986
ISBN: 0452264014
The Fifth Season
by
N. K. Jemisin
Call Number: PS3610.E46 F54 2015
ISBN: 9780316229296
The Fire Next Time
by
James Baldwin
Call Number: E185.61.B181 F5
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
by
Jesmyn Ward (Editor)
Call Number: E185.615 .F526 2016
ISBN: 1501126342
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
by
Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: JC571 .D33275 2016
ISBN: 9781608465644
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
by
Keeang-Yamahtta Taylor
Call Number: E185.86 .T373 2016
ISBN: 1608465624
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists & Progressive Politics during World War II
by
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Call Number: NX512.3.A35 G75 2013
ISBN: 9780465018758
Heavy: An American Memoir
by
Kiese Laymon
Call Number: E185.97.L394 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781501125652
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
by
Jessica B. Harris
Call Number: TX715 .H29972 2012
ISBN: 9781608194506
The History of White People
by
Nell Irvin Painter
Call Number: E184.A1 P29 2010
ISBN: 9780393049343
How to Be an Antiracist
by
Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E184.A1 K344 2019
ISBN: 9780525509288
How We Fight for Our Lives
by
Saeed Jones
Call Number: PS3610.O6279 Z46 2019
ISBN: 9781501132735
Publication Date: 2019-10-08
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by
Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 Z466 2002
ISBN: 0375507892
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose
by
Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573.A425 Z467 1984
ISBN: 0156445441
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking
by
Toni Tipton-Martin
Call Number: TX715 .T598 2019
ISBN: 9781524761738
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by
Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: KF373.S743 A3 2014
ISBN: 9780812994520
Kindred
by
Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: PS3552.U827 K5 2009x
ISBN: 0807083100
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful
by
Kwame Brathwaite (Photographer); Tanisha C. Ford (Text by); Deborah Willis (Text by)
Call Number: TR647 .B7324 2019
ISBN: 9781597114431
The Light of the World
by
Elizabeth Alexander
Call Number: PS3551.L3494 Z46 2015
ISBN: 9781455599875
Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by
James Forman
Call Number: HV9950 .F655 2017
ISBN: 9780374189976
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by
Manning Marable
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57636 2011
ISBN: 9780670022205
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and become a Good Ancestor
by
Layla F. Saad
Call Number: HT1575.S23 M43 2020
ISBN: 9781728209807
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
by
Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: PS3623.A7323 Z46 2013
ISBN: 9781608195213
Monument: Poems: New and Selected
by
Natasha Trethewey
Call Number: PS3570.R433 A6 2018
ISBN: 9781328507846
My Song: A Memoir
by
Harry Belafonte; Michael Shnayerson
Call Number: ML420.B32 A3 2011
ISBN: 0307272265
Negroland: A Memoir
by
Margo Jefferson
Call Number: F548.9.N4 J44 2015
ISBN: 9780307378453
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by
Michelle Alexander
Call Number: HV9950 .A437 2010
ISBN: 9781595581037
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by
Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 N53 2019
ISBN: 9780345804341
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
by
Candacy Taylor
Call Number: E185.61 .T23 2020
ISBN: 9781419738173
Parable of the Sower
by
Octavia E. Butler
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Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781453263617
Publication Date: 2012-07-24
Parable of the Sower
by
Octavia E. Butler; Gloria Steinem (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3552.U827 P37 2016
ISBN: 9781609807191
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by
Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS173.N4 M67 1992
ISBN: 0674673778
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
by
Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)
Call Number: BJ1481 .B76 2019
ISBN: 9781849353267
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis led to Black Lives Matter
by
Jordan T. Camp (Editor); Christina Heatherton (Editor)
Call Number: HV8141 .P5977 2016
ISBN: 9781784783167
Posing Beauty: African American Images, from the 1890s to the Present
by
Deborah Willis
Call Number: TR680 .W53 2009
ISBN: 9780393066968
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by
Monique W. Morris
Call Number: LC2731 .M59 2016
ISBN: 9781620970942
A Raisin in the Sun
by
Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1995
ISBN: 0679601724
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & so much More
by
Janet Mock
Call Number: HQ77.8.M63 A3 2014
ISBN: 1476709122
Shake Loose My Skin
by
Sonia Sanchez
Call Number: PS3569.A468 S53 1999
ISBN: 9780807068502
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by
Audre Lorde
Call Number: PS3562.O75 S5 2007/ebook
ISBN: 1580911862
The Social Life of DNA
by
Alondra Nelson
Call Number: E185.625 .N45 2016
ISBN: 9780807033012
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
by
Amiri Baraka
Call Number: PS3552.A583 A6 2014
ISBN: 080212335X
So You Want to Talk about Race
by
Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: E184.A1 O454 2018
ISBN: 1580056776
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by
Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016
ISBN: 9781568584638
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by
Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: E185.61.G253 S76 2019
ISBN: 9780525559535
The Street
by
Ann Petry
Call Number: PS3531.E933 S75 1998
ISBN: 9780395901496
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
by
Mitchell Jackson
Call Number: E185.86 .J332 2019
ISBN: 9781501131707
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Sweat
by
Lynn Nottage
Call Number: PS3564.O795 S94 2017
ISBN: 9781559365710
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
by
Bell Hooks
Call Number: E185.86 .H74 1989
ISBN: 0896083527
Their Eyes were Watching God
by
Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: PS3515.U789 T5 2006
ISBN: 0060838671
Thick: And other Essays
by
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Call Number: HM479.C68 C68 2019
ISBN: 9781620974360
The Tradition
by
Jericho Brown
Call Number: PS3602.R699 A6 2019
ISBN: 9781556594861
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
by
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Call Number: PS3573.H4768 U53 2016
ISBN: 9780385542364
Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
by
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor; Psyche Williams-Forson (Contribution by)
Call Number: TX715 .S638 2011
ISBN: 9780820337395
Voyage of the Sable Venus: And other Poems
by
Robin Coste Lewis
Call Number: PS3612.E98 A6 2015
ISBN: 9781101875438
Wade in the Water: Poems
by
Tracy K. Smith
Call Number: PS3619.M5955 A6 2018
ISBN: 9781555978136
The Warmth of Other Suns
by
Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: E185.6 .W685 2010
ISBN: 9780679444329
The Ways of White Folks
by
Langston Hughes
Call Number: PS3515.U274 W3 1990
ISBN: 9780679728177
Publication Date: 1990-09-12
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
by
Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: E185.86 .H379 2020
ISBN: 9780393357622
We're on: a June Jordan Reader
by
Christoph Keller (Editor); Jan Heller Levi (Editor)
Call Number: PS3560.O73 A6 2017
ISBN: 9781938584350
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by
Glory Edim
Call Number: PS153.N5 W37 2018
ISBN: 0525619771
We Should All Be Feminists
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: HQ1206 .A35 2015
ISBN: 110191176X
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
by
Bettina Love
Call Number: LC2717 .L68 2019
ISBN: 9780807069158
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by
Damon Young
Call Number: E185.97.Y632 A3 2019
ISBN: 9780062684301
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories
by
Kathleen Collins
Call Number: PS3553.O47485 A6 2016
ISBN: 9780062484154
When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
by
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Call Number: E185.97.K43 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781250171085
Where do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
by
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E185.615.K53 W5
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide
by
Carol Anderson
Call Number: E185.61 .A5438 2016
ISBN: 9781632864123
Who Fears Death
by
Nnedi Okorafor
Call Number: PS3615.K67 W48 2010
ISBN: 9780756406172
The Wretched of the Earth
by
Frantz Fanon
Call Number: DT33.F214 W9
ISBN: 0802141323
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