Special Collections

Black Liberation Reading List

Description: These books on are widely used by activists, students, archivists, and curators to better understand the the Black experience in America and recommended by New York Public Library and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. #adults #general


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Title Author Date Added Action
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 02/03/2021
Heavy Kiese Laymon 02/03/2021
Harlem Nocturne Farah Jasmine Griffin 02/03/2021
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 02/03/2021
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Frank Barat and Angela Y. Davis 02/03/2021
The Fire This Time Jesmyn Ward 02/03/2021
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 02/03/2021
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 02/03/2021
Fences August Wilson and Lloyd Richards 02/03/2021
Fences August Wilson 02/03/2021
Feel Free Zadie Smith 02/03/2021
Farming While Black Leah Penniman and Karen Washington 02/03/2021
Eloquent Rage Brittney Cooper 02/03/2021
Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith 02/03/2021
Democracy in Black Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 02/03/2021
The Cooking Gene Michael W. Twitty 02/03/2021
The Condemnation of Blackness Khalil Gibran Muhammad 02/03/2021
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 02/03/2021
Citizen Claudia Rankine 02/03/2021
Brutal Imagination PA Cornelius Eady 02/03/2021
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X 02/03/2021
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X Alex Haley and Malcolm X and M. S. Handler 02/03/2021
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay 02/03/2021
Biased Jennifer L. Eberhardt 02/03/2021
The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James 02/03/2021

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