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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.

May 2023 Reading List

1. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley & Geoffrey Girard, CT1838.Y36 L63 2019

2. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka, PS3552.A583 A6

3. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell, PS3552.A45 Z63 2002

4. Mozart and Leadbelly by Ernest J. Gaines, PS3557.A355 .M697 2005

5. Black Boy by Richard Wright, PS3545.R815 Z96

6. The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison, PS3555.L625 A6 2003

7. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, FIC BUT

8. A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration by Jessica Bell Brown & Ryan N Dennis, N6538.B53 M68 2022

9. How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin, FIC JEM

10. Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change by Marjorie Kenison McIntosh, DT515.45.Y67 M35 2009

11. The Rap Year Book by Shea Serrano, ML3531 .S477 2015

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

13. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong, ML419.A75 A3

14. Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People, by John N. Oriji, DT 515.45.I33 O74 2011

15. Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation by Chima J. Korieh & Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku, PR 9387.9.A3 Z6245 2022

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

17. A Spell of Good Things: A Novel by Ayobami Adebayo, FIC ADE
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18. What Napoleon Could Not Do by DK Nnuro, FIC NNU