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Black History Month: Find Books

Books and databases exploring Black history.

Collection Highlights

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Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam

I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100

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Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

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Black Women Writers at Work

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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist

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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion since the 1960s

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Sister Outsider

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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

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The Radical Imagination of Black Women: Ambition, Politics, and Power

Want to Dig Deeper?

Here's a sample of items in our collection about Black history, literature, art, culture, and politics.
Search the Library and beyond to discover hundreds of other books and ebooks on these topics.

History & Politics

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Call Number: 973 S6254
More Than Our Pain by Beth Hinderliter, Steve Peraza (Editors)
Call Number: Request via OhioLINK
Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Call Number: 305.38896 H318be
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Call Number: 814.54 L867si
Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks
Call Number: 305.42 H784fe
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
Call Number: 973.0496 S6447ho
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates
Call Number: 973.0496 G259st
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Call Number: 973.0496073 D816s
The Making of Black Lives Matter by Christopher J. Lebron
Call Number: Ebook

Biography, Autobiography, & Memoir

Bone Black by bell hooks
Call Number: 305.48896 H784b
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War by David S. Cecelski
Call Number: Request via OhioLINK
When They Call You a Terrorist by Asha Bandele, Patrisse Cullors
Call Number: 323.092 K454wh
Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates (Editors)
Call Number: 305.567 S631
Ida: A Sword among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
Call Number: 323.092 W453g

Food, Folklore, & Culture

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris
Call Number: 641.59 H314hi
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: 398 H966f
African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem
Call Number: 398.208996 M682a
African American : Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger Abrahams
Call Number: 398.208996 A2587

Literature

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love by Tracy K. Smith, John Freeman (Editors)
Call Number: 306.0973 T398
Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Call Number: View Online
Passing by Nella Larsen
Call Number: 813.52 L334p

Ebook also available.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Call Number: 813.54 B181gi
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry by Charlotte W. Sherman
Call Number: 810.809287 S623
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance by William L. Andrews
Call Number: 813.52 C614

Visual Arts

A Street Called Home by Aminah Robinson
Call Number: 977.157 R658str

Robinson's artwork depicts African-American life in the 1940's in Poindexter Village, a Metropolitan Housing Development in Columbus, Ohio.
Elijah Pierce's America by Nancy Ireson, Zoé Whitley (Editors)
Call Number: 736.4 P615el
I Too Sing America by Wil Haygood
Call Number: 700.8996 H419i
African-American Art by Sharon F. Patton
Call Number: 704.0396 P322a

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