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Black Student Union Reading Lists

Starting in 2021, the Black Student Union (BSU) shared monthly reading lists with the library. These reading lists were then displayed. This guide will archive the old lists.

April 2023 Reading List

1. Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories by Juliette Harris and Pamela Johnson, PS509.H28 T46

2. The Tuskegee Airmen Chronology: A Detailed Timeline of the Red Tails and Other Black Pilots of World War II by Daniel L Haulman, UG834.A37 H38 2017

3. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing by Amiri Baraka & Larry Neal, PS508.N3 B333 2007

4. Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans The Early Period 1847-1938 by James V. Hatch & Ted Shine, PS628.N4 B56 V. 1  

5. Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Steven C. Tracy, PS285.C47 W75 2011

6. The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, D570.33 .B76 2014

7. Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith, DT3000.M28 M47 2007

8. An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti by Marcus Rainsford, F1923 .R15 2013

9. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, E444 .J17 A3 2001

10. Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture by Lionel C. Bascom, F128.68.H3 B37 2017

11. Say it Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black Athlete by Roxanne Jones & Jesie Paolucci, GV706.32 .J66 2010

12. High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture by Kevin Adonis Browne, GT4223 .B76 2018

13. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery by B.A. Botkin, E 444 .F26

14. African Art for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, N 5311 .W65

15. Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies by Kimberly Fain, PN1995.9.N4 F36 2015

16. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack, PN3433.5 .W66 2013

17. The Content of our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo, E 185 .W27 2020

18. Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. by Vicki L. Crawford & Lewis V. Baldwin E 185.97.K5 R397 2019

19. The New Noir: Race, Identity & Diaspora in Black Suburbia by Orly Clerge, E 185 .86 .C564 2020
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20. NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Brian C. Odom & Stephen P. Waring, TL 521.312 .N363 2019