[ Anthology : Biography and
Memoir : Drama : History :
Poetry : Non-Fiction :
Fiction ]
Anthology
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America |
Boyd, Herb, ed. |
810.80928 Brotherman |
| Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans |
Washington, James |
242.80089 Conversations |
| Daughters of Africa |
Busby, Margaret, ed. |
808.89928 Daughters |
| My Soul Is a Witness: African American Women’s Spirituality |
Wade-Gayles, Gloria, ed. |
277.3082 My |
| New Negro |
Locke, Alain, ed. |
810.9896 New |
Biography and Memoir
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley |
B Malcolm X Biography |
| Black Boy |
Wright, Richard |
813.5 Wright |
| Brothers and Keepers |
Wideman, John Edgar |
364.30924 Wideman |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
818.5409 Angelou Biography |
| Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano |
Equiano, Olaudah |
305.56709 Equiano Biography |
| In Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Washington, James Melvin, ed. |
323.40924 King |
| Life of Langston Hughes |
Rampersad, Arnold |
818.5209 Hughes Biography |
| Manchild in the Promised Land |
Brown, Claude |
974.71004 Brown |
| Miles: The Autobiography |
Davis, Miles |
788.92 Davis |
| Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: an American
Slave Written by Himself |
Douglass, Frederick |
326.0924 Douglass |
| Roots: The Saga of an American Family |
Haley, Alex |
972.20973 Haley |
| Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol |
Painter, Nell Irvin |
305.56709 Truth Biography |
| Soledad Brother: the Prison Letters of George Jackson |
Jackson, George |
365.6092 Jackson |
| Soul on Ice |
Cleaver, Eldridge |
323.092 Cleaver |
| Substance of Things Hoped For |
Proctor, Samuel DeWitt |
286.1092 Proctor |
| Up from Slavery |
Washington, Booker T |
370.92 Washington Biography |
| W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race |
Lewis, David Levering |
973.0496 DuBois Biography |
Drama
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Fences: A Play |
Wilson, August |
812.54 Wilson |
| for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is
enuf |
Shange, Ntozake |
811.54 Shange |
| Raisin in the Sun |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
812.5 Hansberry |
History
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Before the Mayflower |
Bennett, Lerone |
325.26097 Bennett |
| Black Reconstruction in America |
Du Bois, W. E. B. |
325.26 Du Bois |
| Black Jacobins |
James, C. L. R. |
972.9403 James |
| Destruction of Black Civilization |
Williams, Chancellor |
916.0696 Williams |
| From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans |
Franklin, John Hope |
973.0496 Franklin |
| Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete |
Ashe, Arthur |
796 Ashe |
| Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the
Seventeenth Century |
Burnside, Madeline |
326.09182 Burnside |
| Stolen Legacy |
James, George G. M. |
180 James |
| They Came Before Columbus |
Van Sertima, Ivan |
970.019 Van Sertima |
Poetry
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Annie Allen |
Brooks, Gwendolyn |
811.54 Brooks |
Non-fiction
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Black Bourgeoisie |
Frazier, Edward F. |
325.26097 Frazier |
| Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman |
Wallace, Michele |
301.45196 Wallace |
| Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City |
Drake, St. Clair |
305.89607 Drake |
| Black Power |
Carmichael, Stokely |
325.1196 Carmichael |
| Black Skin, White Masks |
Fanon, Franz |
305.896 Fanon |
| Black Theology of Liberation |
Cone, James H |
230.08996 Cone |
| Blues People: Negro Music in White America |
Baraka, Amiri |
781.773 Jones |
| Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
Cruse, Harold |
305.89607 Cruse |
| Fire Next Time |
Baldwin, James |
305.89607 Baldwin |
| Hero and the Blues |
Murray, Albert |
810.9 Murray |
| Jesus and the Disinherited |
Thurman, Howard |
261.834 Thurman |
| Mis-education of the Negro |
Woodson, Carter G |
370.8996 Woodson |
| Notes of a Hanging Judge |
Crouch, Stanley |
305.89607 Crouch |
| Race Matters |
West, Cornel |
305.80097 West |
| Seize the Time: the Story of the Black Panther Party |
Seale, Bobby |
322.42097 Seale |
| Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches |
Lorde, Audre |
814.54 Lorde |
| Souls of Black Folk |
DuBois, W.E.B |
305.896 DuBois |
| Tapping the Power Within |
VanZant, Iyanla |
291.42 Vanzant |
| Wretched of the Earth |
Fanon, Franz |
306.096 Fanon |
Fiction (Novels and Short Stories)
| Title |
Author |
Call Number |
| Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction Morrison |
| Black Betty |
Mosley, Walter |
Mystery Mosley |
| The Blacker the Berry |
Thurman, Wallace |
Fiction Thurman |
| Cane |
Toomer, Jean |
Fiction Toomer |
| The Chaneyville Incident
|
Bradley, David |
Fiction Bradley |
| Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
Gaines, Ernest |
Fiction Gaines |
| Clotel, or the Colored Heroine: a
Tale of the Southern States |
Brown, William Wells |
Fiction Brown |
| The Color Purple |
Walker, Alice |
Fiction Walker |
| The Conjure Woman |
Chestnutt, Charles |
Fiction Chestnutt |
| Damballah |
Wideman, John Edgar |
Fiction Wideman |
| Elbow Room |
McPherson, James Alan |
Fiction McPherson |
| Faith and the Good Thing |
Johnson, Charles |
Fiction Johnson |
| The Famished Road |
Okri, Ben |
Fiction Okri |
| Go Tell it on the Mountain
|
Baldwin, James |
Fiction Baldwin |
| God’s Bits of Wood |
Ousmane, Sembene |
Fiction Ousmane |
| If He Hollers Let Him Go
|
Himes, Chester |
Fiction Himes |
| Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
Fiction Ellison |
| Jubilee |
Walker, Margaret |
Fiction Walker |
| Kehinde |
Emecheta, Buchi |
Fiction Emecheta |
| Kindred |
Butler, Octavia |
Science Fiction Butler |
| Krik? Krak! |
Danticat, Edwidge |
Fiction Danticat |
| A Lesson Before Dying |
Gaines, Ernest |
Fiction Gaines |
| The Man Who Cried I Am: a Novel
|
Williams, John A |
Fiction Williams |
| Maud Martha |
Brooks, Gwendolyn |
Fiction Brooks |
| Mumbo Jumbo |
Reed, Ishmael |
Fiction Reed |
| Native Son |
Wright, Richard |
Fiction Wright |
| Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life
of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North |
Wilson, Harriet E |
Fiction Wilson |
| Praisesong for the Widow |
Marshall, Paule |
Fiction Marshall |
| The River Between |
Thiongo, Ngugi Wa |
Fiction Thiongo |
| Sally Hemings |
Chase-Riboud, Barbara |
Fiction Chase-Riboud |
| Song of Solomon |
Morrison, Toni |
Fiction Morrison |
| The Spook Who Sat by the Door |
Greenlee, Sam |
Fiction Greenlee |
| The Street |
Petry, Ann |
Fiction Petry |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
Fiction Hurston |
| Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
Fiction Achebe |
| Waiting to Exhale |
McMillan, Terry |
Fiction McMillan |
| The Women of Brewster Place |
Naylor, Gloria |
Fiction Naylor |
| Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine |
Campbell, Bebe Moore |
Fiction Campbell |
