| African American History Resources
@ Pequot Library
Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.
Biography arranged by subject’s last name.
Social History [arranged from most recent to earliest]:
Open House of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own.
Williams, Patricia J., 2004. 070.92 WILLIAMS
Nigger: the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. Kennedy, Randall, 2003. 305.896 KENNEDY
A Small Nation of People: W.E.B Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress. 2003.
305.896 SMALL
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Wormser, Richard, 2003. 305.896 WORMSER
The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America. Cose, Ellis, 2002. 305.896 COSE
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: the Lynching of Black America. Dray, Philip, 2002.
364.1 DRAY
Jim Crow’s Children: the Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. Irons, Peter H., 2002
347.9 IRONS
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America. Wynter, Leon, 2002.
305.8 WYNTER
Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality. Fairclough, Adam, 2001. 323.1 FAIRCLOUGH
Salvation: Black People and Love. Hooks, Bell, 2001. 306.7 HOOKS
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. 2001.
305.89 REMEMBERING
In Search of Black America: Discovering the African-American Dream. Dent, David J., 2000.
305.896 DENT
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class. Graham, Lawrence, 1999. 305.8 GRAHAM
Coal to Cream: a Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. Robinson, Eugene, 1999. 305.8 ROBINSON
The Children. Halberstam, David, 1998. 321.1 HALBERSTAM
Making Whiteness: the Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. Hale, Grace Elizabeth, 1998. 305.8 HALE
Kwanzaa: Celebrating our Cultural Harvest. Riley, D. Winbush, 1995. 394.261 RILEY
Face-to-Face: Blacks in America: White Perceptions and Black Realities. Finkenstaedt, Rose L.H., 1994. 305.8 FINKENSTAEDT
Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity. Funderburg, Lise, 1994.
306.84 FUNDERBURG
Masters of the Dream: the Strength and Betrayal of Black America. Keyes, Alan L., 1994.
305.896 KEYES
On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying -: the Underground Tradition of African American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor. Watkins, Mel, 1994. 792.23 WATKINS
We Have a Dream: African-American Visions of Freedom. Wells, Diana, 1993. 323.1 WELLS
A Nation of Strangers: Prejudice, Politics and the Populating of America. Cose, Ellis. 1992.
305.8 COSE
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal . Hacker, Andrew, 1992. 305.8 HACKER
Multiculturalism in the United States: a Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity. 1992. 305.9 MULTICULTURALISM
Paved with Good Intentions: the Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America. Taylor, Jared, 1992. 305.8 TAYLOR
Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby. Carter, Stephen L., 1991. 342.73 CARTER
The Adventures of Amos ‘n’ Andy: a Social History of an American Phenomenon. Ely, Melvin Patrick, 1991. 791.4472 ELY
Voices of Freedom: an Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950’s through the 1980’s. Hampton, Henry, 1990. 323.1 HAMPTON
The Content of Our Character: a New Vision of Race in America. Steele, Shelby, 1990. 305.8 STEELE
Black Like Me. Griffin, John Howard, 1989. 305.896 GRIFFIN
And We Are Not Saved: the Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. Bell, Derrick A., 1987. 305.8 BELL
Plural but Equal: a Critical Study of Black and Minorities and America’s Plural Society. Cruse, Harold, 1987. 305.8 CRUSE
Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class. Gutman, Herbert George, 1987.
305.562 GUTMAN
The Crucible of Race: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. Williamson, Joel, 1984. 305.8 WILLIAMSON
Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929-1959. Dunbar, Anthony P., 1981.
322.4 DUNBAR
There is a River: the Black Struggle for Freedom in America. Harding, Vincent, 1981. 323.1 HARDING
Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Abolition. Walker, Peter, 1978. 322.4 WALKER
One Kind of Freedom: the Economic Consequences of Emancipation. Ransom, Roger L., 1977.
330.9 RANSOM
Sambo: the Rise and Demise of an American Jester. Boskin, Joseph, 1976. 306.484 BOSKIN
The Black American Reference Book. Smythe, Michael, ed., 1976. 301.46 SMYTHE
The Abolitionist Legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP. McPherson, James W., 1975.
322.4 MCPHERSON
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. DuBois, W.E.B., 1969. 301.45 DU BOIS
Black Exodus: Black Nationalist and Back-to-Africa Movements, 1890-1910. Redkey, Edwin S., 1969. 325.2 REDKEY
History of the Colored Race in America. Alexander, William F., 1968. 323 ALEXANDER
Black Metropolis: a Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Drake, St. Claire, 1962. 325.2 DRAKE
Segregation, the Inner Conflict in the South. Warren, Robert Penn, 1956. 325.6 WARREN
Jim Crow America. Conrad, Earl, 1947. 326 CONRAD
The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written During the Crisis, 1800-1860. Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1926. 323 WOODSON |
