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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

High Mas by Adonis Browne, Kevin
Call Number: GT4223 .B76 2018
ISBN: 9781496819383
Publication Date: 2018-09-30
Black Fire by Baraka, Amiri (Editor); Larry Neal (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.N3 B333 2007
ISBN: 9781574780390
Publication Date: 2007-04-05
Harlem by Bascom, Lionel C.
Call Number: F128.68.H3 B37 2017
ISBN: 9781440842689
Publication Date: 2016-12-12
Lay My Burden Down by Botkin, B. A. (Editor); Jerrold I. Hirsch
Call Number: E 444 .F26
ISBN: 9780385311151
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
The Harlem Hellfighters by Brooks, Max; Caanan White (Illustrator)
Call Number: D570.33 .B76 2014
ISBN: 9780307464972
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Reclaiming the Great World House by Crawford, Vicki L. (Editor); Lewis V. Baldwin (Editor, Contribution by); Robert Franklin (Foreword by, Contribution by); Victor Anderson (Contribution by); Crystal A. deGregory (Contribution by); Teresa Delgado (Contribution by); Walter E. Fluker (Contribution by); Mary E. King (Contribution by); Hak Joon Lee (Contribution by); Althea Legal-Miller (Contribution by); Michael B. McCormack (Contribution by); Larry Rivers (Contribution by); Rosetta E. Ross (Contribution by); Gary S. Selby (Contribution by); Amy E. Steele (Contribution by); Nimi Wariboko (Contribution by); Rufus Burrow
Call Number: E 185.97.K5 R397 2019
ISBN: 9780820356020
Publication Date: 2019-10-05
Black Hollywood by Fain, Kimberly
Call Number: PN1995.9.N4 F36 2015
ISBN: 9781440831904
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Black Theatre USA Revised and Expanded Edition, Vol. 1 by Hatch, James V. (Editor); Ted Shine
Call Number: PS628.N4 B56 V. 1
ISBN: 9780684823089
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
The Tuskegee Airmen Chronology by Haulman, Daniel ; Charles E. McGee (Foreword by)
Call Number: UG834.A37 H38 2017
ISBN: 9781588383419
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Jackson, Lawrence (Contribution by); Angelene Jamison-Hall (Contribution by); Keith Leonard (Contribution by); Lisbeth Lipari (Contribution by); Bill V. Mullen (Contribution by); Patrick Naick (Contribution by); William R. Nash (Contribution by); Charlene Regester (Contribution by); Kimberly Ruffin (Contribution by); Elizabeth Schultz (Contribution by); Steven C. Tracy (Editor, Contribution by); Joyce Hope Scott (Contribution by); James Smethurst (Contribution by); Kimberly M. Stanley (Contribution by); Kathryn Waddell Takara (Contribution by); Zoe Trodd (Contribution by); Alan Wald (Contribution by); Jamal Eric Watson (Contribution by); Donyel Hobbs Williams (Contribution by); Stephen Caldwell Wright (Contribution by); Richard Yarborougha (Contribution by); Robert Butler (Contribution by); Robert H. Cataliotti (Contribution by); Maryemma Graham (Contribution by); James C. Hall (Contribution by); James L. Hill (Contribution by); Michael Hill (Contribution by); Lovalerie King (Contribution by)
Call Number: PS285.C47 W75 2011
ISBN: 9780252093425
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Jacobs, Harriet A.
Call Number: E444 .J17 A3 2001
ISBN: 9780486419312
Publication Date: 2001-11-09
Tenderheaded by Johnson, Pamela (Editor); Juliette Harris (Editor)
Call Number: PS509.H28 T46
ISBN: 9780671047559
Publication Date: 2001-01-30
Say It Loud by Jones, Roxanne; Jessie Paolucci; Tony Dungy (Foreword by)
Call Number: GV706.32 .J66 2010
ISBN: 9780345515896
Publication Date: 2010-11-09
Mugabe by Meredith, Martin
Call Number: DT3000.M28 M47 2007
ISBN: 9781586485580
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Odom, Brian C. (Editor); Stephen P. Waring
Call Number: TL 521.312 .N363 2019
ISBN: 9780813066202
Publication Date: 2019-11-19
The New Noir: Race, Identity & Diaspora in Black Suburbia by Orly Clerge
Call Number: E 185 .86 .C564 2020
ISBN: 9780520296763
Publication Date: 2019-10-29
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti by Rainsford, Marcus; Paul Youngquist (Editor); Grégory Pierrot (Editor)
Call Number: F1923 .R15 2013
ISBN: 9780822352785
Publication Date: 2013-01-21
The Content of Our Caricature by Wanzo, Rebecca
Call Number: E 185 .W27 2020
ISBN: 9781479840083
Publication Date: 2020-04-21
Afrofuturism by Womack, Ytasha L.
Call Number: PN3433.5 .W66 2013
ISBN: 9781613747964
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
African Art by Woodward, Richard B.
Call Number: N 5311 .W65
ISBN: 9780917046377
Publication Date: 1997-01-01