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Black History Month at 100

Black History Month at 100

Assistant Dean Rochelle D. Edwards’ Black History Month Reading List


Origins of the Policing of Black Bodies/History of Race

In The Matter of Color Book cover

In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process
(A. Leon
Higginbotham)

Black Majority

Black Majority
(Peter Wood)

The Invention of White Race

The Invention of the White  Race
(Theodore Allen)

The Wages of Whiteness

The Wages of Whiteness
(David R. Roediger)


Slavery

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage From Africa to American Diaspora

Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage From Africa to American Diaspora
(Stephanie Smallwood)

Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave
(Solomon Northrup)

Out of the House of Bondage

Out of the House of Bondage
(Thavolia Glymph)

Soul by Soul

Soul by Soul
(Walter Johnson)

 

Arn’t I A Woman

Arn’t I a Woman
(Deborah Gray White)

 

 

 

 

 

 


Reconstruction

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
(Eric Foner)

 

Been in the Storm So Long

Been in the Storm So Long
(Leon Litwack)

Black Reconstruction

Black Reconstruction
(W.E.B. Du Bois)

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
(LeeAnna Keith)


Jim Crow

Gender and Jim Crow

Gender and Jim Crow
(Glenda Gilmore)

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name
(Douglas Blackmon)

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
(Scott Ellsworth)

 

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South
(Grace E. Hale)

Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot and Its Legacy

Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot and Its Legacy
(Cécelski Tyson)

 

 


Civil Rights Movement

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X
(Alex Haley)

Soul on Ice

Soul on Ice
(Eldridge Cleaver)

Coming of Age in Mississippi

Coming of Age in Mississippi
(Ann Moody)

 

At the Dark End of the Street

At the Dark End of the Street
(Danielle McGuire)

The Blood of Emmett Till

The Blood of Emmett Till
(Timothy Tyson)

The River of No Return

The River of No Return
(Cleveland Sellers)

 

Sweet Land of Liberty

Sweet Land of Liberty
(Thomas Sugrue)

 

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
(Jonathan Metzl)


Modern

Race Matters

Race Matters
(Cornel West)

Makes Me Wanna Holler

Makes Me Wanna Holler
(Nathan McCall)

Killing the Black Body

Killing the Black Body
(Dorothy Roberts)

 

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me
(Ta-Nehisi Coates)

The New Jim Crow

The New Jim Crow
(Michelle Alexander)

Me and White Supremacy

Me and White Supremacy
(Layla F. Saad)

 

Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice: 15 Stories

Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice: 15 Stories
(edited by Eddie Moore, Jr., Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Ali Michael)


Black History Month Films

Do The Right Thing

Do The Right Thing

Fruitvale Station

Fruitvale Station

Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

 

The Hurricane

The Hurricane

13th (Netflix)

13th (Netflix)

Ken Burn’s documentary, The Central Park Five

Ken Burn’s documentary, The Central Park Five (Amazon Prime)

 

BlacKKKlansmen

BlacKKKlansmen

Rosewood

Rosewood

Stanley Nelson’s documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Stanley Nelson’s documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Mudbound (Netflix)

Mudbound (Netflix)

Just Mercy

Just Mercy

Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah