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New Books Spring 2025
Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow
by
Dorian Hairston
Call Number: PS3608.A545345 P74 2024
ISBN: 9780813198873
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Lorna Simpson
by
Kellie Jones; Thelma Golden; Chrissie Iles; Naomi Beckwith
Call Number: N6537.S5554 G64 2022
ISBN: 9781838661243
Publication Date: 2022-05-04
Multiplicity: Blackness in contemporary American collage
by
Kathryn E. Delmez (Editor); Anita N. Bateman (Contribution by); Tiffany E. Barber (Contribution by); Valerie Cassel Oliver (Contribution by); Patricia Hills (Contribution by); Maria Elena Ortiz (Contribution by); Richard J. Powell (Contribution by); Rebecca VanDiver (Contribution by); Chase Williamson (Contribution by); Fisk University students (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6512.75.C55 M85 2023
ISBN: 9780300272963
Publication Date: 2023-11-28
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics
by
Wayde Compton
Call Number: PN1055 .C66 2024
ISBN: 9781772127430
Publication Date: 2024-02-22
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Before Central Park
by
Sara Cedar Miller
Call Number: F128.65.C3 M54 2022
ISBN: 9780231181945
Publication Date: 2022-06-28
Black Elegies: meditations on the art of mourning
by
Kimberly Juanita Brown
Call Number: PS310.B53 B76 2025
ISBN: 9780262551724
Publication Date: 2025-02-18
Designing a New Tradition
by
Rebecca VanDiver
Call Number: ND237.J76 V36 2020
ISBN: 9780271086040
Publication Date: 2020-10-09
Take Care of Them Like My Own: faith, fortitude, and a surgeon's fight for health justice
by
Ala Stanford
Call Number: RD27.35.S694 A3 2024
ISBN: 9781668004067
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
A Perfect Frenzy: a royal governor, his Black allies, and the crisis that spurred the American Revolution
by
Andrew Lawler
Call Number: E269.B53 L39 2025
ISBN: 9780802164131
Publication Date: 2025-01-28
Harriet Tubman
by
Jean Marie Wiesen; Rita Daniels; Queen Mother Delois Blakely (Foreword by)
Call Number: E444.T82 W54 2025
ISBN: 9781639368136
Publication Date: 2025-02-04
Black in Blues
by
Imani Perry
Call Number: E185.86 .P476 2025
ISBN: 9780062977397
Publication Date: 2025-01-28
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Object Lessons in American Art
by
Karl Kusserow (Editor, Contribution by); Horace D. Ballard (Contribution by); Kirsten Pai Buick (Contribution by); Ellery E. Foutch (Contribution by); Jeffrey Richmond-Moll (Contribution by); Rebecca Zorach (Contribution by)
Call Number: N6505 .O25 2023
ISBN: 9780691978857
Publication Date: 2023-03-28
The Black Utopians
by
Aaron Robertson
Call Number: E185.625 .R55 2024
ISBN: 9780374604981
Publication Date: 2024-10-01
The Life and Art of Jimmy Lee Sudduth
by
Susan Mitchell Crawley (Contribution by)
Call Number: ND237.S837 A4 2005
ISBN: 0892800453
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's murals at Talladega College
by
Stephanie Mayer Heydt
Call Number: ND237.W813 A4 2012
ISBN: 9781932543469
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
by
Naurice Frank Woods; George Dimock (Foreword by)
Call Number: N6538.N5 W66 2021
ISBN: 9781496834348
Publication Date: 2021-06-28
The Radical Imagination of Black Women
by
Pearl K. Ford Dowe
Call Number: E185.86 .F648 2023
ISBN: 9780197650790
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
On the Very Edge: identities in Michelle Cliff's fiction
by
Ian Kinane
Call Number: PR9265.9.C55 Z696 2025
ISBN: 9781496855145
Publication Date: 2025-01-20
Elizabeth Catlett
by
Dalila Scruggs (Editor)
Call Number: N6537.C37 A4 2024
ISBN: 0226836576
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Charles Ethan Porter
by
Pamela Barr (Editor); James Kopp (Photographer); Hildegard Cummings; Douglas Hyland (Contribution by)
Call Number: ND237.P813 C43 2007
ISBN: 0972449760
Publication Date: 2008-02-28
Activism in the Name of God: religion and Black feminist public intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the present
by
Jami L. Carlacio (Editor)
Call Number: E185.96 .A23 2023
ISBN: 9781496845672
Publication Date: 2023-08-16
Which Lives Matter?
by
Traci Burch
Call Number: HM883 .B87 2023
ISBN: 1009454374
Publication Date: 2023-10-05
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
by
Tom Jenks
Call Number: PS3552.A45 S66 2024
ISBN: 9780192884244
Publication Date: 2024-10-31
Racecraft: the soul of inequality in American life
by
Barbara J. Fields; Karen E. Fields
Call Number: E184.A1 F54 2022
ISBN: 9781839765643
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
The Obama Portraits
by
Taína Caragol; Dorothy Moss; Richard Powell; Kim Sajet
Call Number: E908.3 .O35 2020
ISBN: 9780691203287
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda
by
Hannah Giorgis (Contribution by); Yona Harvey (Contribution by); Tre Johnson (Contribution by); Marlene Allen Ahmed (Contribution by); Aaron C. Allen (Contribution by); Maurice Broaddus (Contribution by); Arvell Jones (Contribution by); Frederick Joseph (Contribution by); Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Contribution by); Dwayne Wong Omowale (Contribution by); Gil Robertson (Contribution by); Mateus Manhanini (Illustrator); Marvel (Contribution by); Nic Stone (Foreword by); Ruth E. Carter (Contribution by)
Call Number: PN1997.2.B5815 D74 2022
ISBN: 9781984826176
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
Against! rebellious daughters in Black immigrant fiction in the United States
by
Asha Jeffers
Call Number: PS153.B53 J44 2025
ISBN: 9780814215791
Publication Date: 2025-01-17
Understanding Lynn Nottage
by
Jennifer L. Hayes
Call Number: PS3564.O795 Z68 2024
ISBN: 9781643365091
Publication Date: 2025-01-09
Exhibitions: essays on art and atrocity
by
Jehanne Dubrow
Call Number: PS3604.U276 E94 2023
ISBN: 9780826365262
Publication Date: 2023-09-01
The Other #MeToos
by
Iqra Shagufta Cheema (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1237 .O84 2023
ISBN: 9780197619872
Publication Date: 2023-06-16
Traveling Freely
by
Roberto Carlos Garcia
Call Number: PS3607.A72515 T73 2025
ISBN: 9780810147881
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Charles Alston
by
Alvia J. Wardlaw; Aimee Hess
Call Number: N6537.A467 W37 2007
ISBN: 9780764937668
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Black Prison Intellectuals
by
Andrea Stone
Call Number: PS153.P74 S86 2025
ISBN: 9780813079202
Publication Date: 2025-01-14
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black women and literary recognition
by
Laura Elizabeth Vrana
Call Number: PS310.B53 V73 2024
ISBN: 9780814215753
Publication Date: 2024-11-08
Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture
by
Ivan McClellan; Charles Sampson (Introduction by)
Call Number: TR655 .M2285 2024
ISBN: 9788862088121
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
Walking in the Dark
by
Douglas Field
Call Number: PS3552.A45 Z656 2024
ISBN: 9781526175175
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters
by
Duncan Faherty
Call Number: PS185 .F34 2023
ISBN: 9780192889157
Publication Date: 2024-01-16
African Industrial Design Practice
by
Richie Moalosi (Editor); Yaone Rapitsenyane (Editor)
Call Number: TS115 .A37 2024
ISBN: 9781032218366
Publication Date: 2023-09-07
The underlying principle of this book is the
Performance Activism
by
Dan Friedman
Call Number: PN2049 .F54 2021
ISBN: 9783030805906
Publication Date: 2021-12-04
The Rich Earth Between Us
by
Shelby Johnson
Call Number: PS153.I52 J64 2024
ISBN: 9781469677903
Publication Date: 2024-03-05
America, Goddam
by
Treva B. Lindsey
Call Number: HV6250.4.W65 L565 2022
ISBN: 9780520384491
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Black Speculative Feminisms
by
Cassandra L. Jones
Call Number: PS153.B53 J66 2024
ISBN: 9780814215401
Publication Date: 2024-11-01
Forms of Mobility
by
Stephanie Bosch Santana
Call Number: PR9340 .B67 2025
ISBN: 9780810147690
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Living off the Government?
by
Anne M. Whitesell
Call Number: HV95 .W525 2024
ISBN: 9781479828562
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives
by
Cain Hope Felder
Call Number: BS661 .F45 2023
ISBN: 9781506488523
Publication Date: 2023-05-23
New Books Fall 2024
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere
by
George Lipsitz; Robin D. G. Kelley (Foreword by)
Call Number: HD7288.76.U5 L57 2024
ISBN: 9780520404397
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
My Grandmother's Hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies
by
Resmaa Menakem
Call Number: E185.615 .M38 2017
ISBN: 9781942094470
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
The Roots of Cane
by
John K. Young
Call Number: PS3539.O478 C3387 2024
ISBN: 9781609389659
Publication Date: 2024-08-23
Refiguring Race and Risk
by
Roberta Wolfson
Call Number: PS153.M56 W65 2024
ISBN: 9780814215692
Publication Date: 2024-07-12
Contextualizing Angela Davis
by
Joy James
Call Number: E185.97.D23 J36 2024
ISBN: 9781350368620
Publication Date: 2024-01-25
Processing the Past: contesting authority in history and the archives
by
Francis X. Blouin Jr.; William G. Rosenberg
Call Number: CD950 .B56 2011
ISBN: 9780199740543
Publication Date: 2011-02-18
Otherworldly Mothering: : the maternal grammar of Black women's writing, 1970-1990
by
Marika Ceschia
Call Number: PS153.B53 C47 2024
ISBN: 9780807182499
Publication Date: 2024-08-09
My Black Country
by
Alice Randall
Call Number: ML3524 .R34 2024
ISBN: 9781668018408
Publication Date: 2024-04-09
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the faith dreams of a free people
by
Tiya Miles; Henry Louis Gates (Series edited by)
Call Number: E444.T82 M55 2024
ISBN: 9780593491164
Publication Date: 2024-06-18
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
by
Denise Murrell (Editor)
Call Number: N6538.B53 H37 2024
ISBN: 9781588397737
Publication Date: 2024-02-27
The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
by
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: PS173.B53 C36 2024
ISBN: 9781009204156
Publication Date: 2024-05-16
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit
by
Noliwe Rooks; Henry Louis Gates (Series edited by)
Call Number: E185.97.B34 R665 2024
ISBN: 9780593492420
Publication Date: 2024-07-23
Another Word for Love
by
Carvell Wallace
Call Number: PN4874.W282 A3 2024
ISBN: 9780374237820
Publication Date: 2024-05-14
Abolitionist Twilights: history, meaning, and the fate of racial egalitarianism, 1865-1909
by
Raymond James Krohn
Call Number: E185.2 .K76 2023
ISBN: 9781531505608
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
As We See It: Artists redefining Black identity
by
Aida Amoako
Call Number: NX164.B55 A46 2023
ISBN: 9781786279583
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Hip-Hop Is History
by
Questlove; Ben Greenman (As told to)
Call Number: ML3531 .Q47 2024
ISBN: 9780374614072
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
The Residential Is Racial
by
Adrienne Brown
Call Number: PS228.R32 B75 2024
ISBN: 9781503636941
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life
by
Zun Lee (Editor); Sophie Hackett (Editor); Fred Moten; Stefano Harney (Text by); Dawn Martin (Text by)
Call Number: E185.86 .W53 2022
ISBN: 9781942884941
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Literature, Art and Slavery
by
Carl Plasa
Call Number: PR605.S53 P53 2023
ISBN: 0748683542
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
James
by
Percival Everett
Call Number: PS3555.V34 J36 2024
ISBN: 9780385550369
Publication Date: 2024-03-19
Combee
by
Edda L. Fields-Black
Call Number: E473.9 .F54 2024
ISBN: 9780197552797
Publication Date: 2024-02-09
Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick)
by
Danzy Senna
Call Number: PS3569.E618 C65 2024
ISBN: 9780593544372
Publication Date: 2024-09-03
An Emancipation of the Mind
by
Matthew Stewart
Call Number: HT1031 .S74 2024
ISBN: 9781324003625
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
Academic Outsider
by
Victoria Reyes
Call Number: LC212.42 .R49 2022
ISBN: 9781503632998
Publication Date: 2022-07-05
Just Action
by
Leah Rothstein; Richard Rothstein
Call Number: HD7288.76.U5 R68 2023
ISBN: 9781324093244
Publication Date: 2023-06-01
The Summer Of 2020
by
Andre E. Johnson; Amanda Nell Edgar
Call Number: E185.615 .J5875 2024
ISBN: 9781496849748
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Black American Portraits
by
Dhyandra Lawson (Text by); Jeffrey C. Stewart (Text by); Naima J. Keith (Afterword by); Christine Kim (Editor); Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews (Editor); Mary Schmidt Campbell (Foreword by); Michael Govan (Foreword by); Hilton Als (Text by); Bridget R. Cooks (Text by); Ilene Susan Fort (Text by)
Call Number: N7593 .B533 2023
ISBN: 9781636810164
Publication Date: 2023-01-17
The Black Experience in Design
by
Anne H. Berry (Editor); Kareem Collie (Editor); Penina Acayo Laker (Editor); Lesley-Ann Noel (Editor); Jennifer Rittner (Editor); Kelly Walters (Editor)
Call Number: N8356.B55 B53 2022
ISBN: 9781621537854
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Called to the Camera: Black American studio photographers /
by
Brian Piper; Russell Lord; John Edwin Mason; Carla Williams; Susan Taylor (Foreword by)
Call Number: TR681.B52 C35 2023
ISBN: 9780300267389
Publication Date: 2023-05-09
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Decolonizing Design
by
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall; Ene Agi (Illustrator)
Call Number: NK1520 .T86 2023
ISBN: 9780262047692
Publication Date: 2023-02-14
Captivity's Collections
by
Kathleen S. Murphy
Call Number: QH21.G7 M87 2023
ISBN: 9781469675909
Publication Date: 2023-10-17
Ascension: the sociology of an African American family's generational journey
by
Lois Benjamin
Call Number: E185.86 .B3788 2024
ISBN: 9781469678665
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
Lessons for Survival
by
Emily Raboteau
Call Number: F128.57.R34 A3 2024
ISBN: 9781250809766
Publication Date: 2024-03-12
Aníbal Quijano: foundational essays on the coloniality of power
by
Aníbal. Quijano; Walter D. Mignolo (Editor); Rita Segato (Editor); Catherine E. Walsh (Editor); David Frye (Translator)
Call Number: F1410 .Q486 2024
ISBN: 9781478030324
Publication Date: 2024-04-05
The Black Angels
by
Maria Smilios
Call Number: RT83.5 .S65 2023
ISBN: 9780593544921
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Trafficking in Antiblackness
by
Lyndsey P. Beutin
Call Number: HQ281 .B5845 2023
ISBN: 9781478019787
Publication Date: 2023-03-24
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A War of Sections : how deep South political suppression shaped voting rights in America
by
Steve Suitts
Call Number: JK1929.A4 S85 2023
ISBN: 9781588384911
Publication Date: 2024-01-31
John Lewis
by
Raymond Arsenault
ISBN: 9780300253757
Publication Date: 2024-01-16
A Slow, Calculated Lynching
by
Devery S. Anderson; James Meredith (Foreword by)
Call Number: 185.97.K396 A66 2023
ISBN: 9781496844040
Publication Date: 2023-03-08
Willow Weep for Me
by
Nana-Ama Danquah; Andrew Solomon (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781324050612
Publication Date: 2023-10-03
American Slavers
by
Sean M. Kelley
Call Number: E441 .K445 2023
ISBN: 9780300263596
Publication Date: 2023-05-30
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
by
Matthias Klestil
ISBN: 9783030821012
Publication Date: 2023-04-21
Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois
by
Julie Nicolai
Call Number: E450 .N53 2023
ISBN: 9781467154833
Publication Date: 2023-07-31
Networked Poetics
by
Susanna L. Sacks
Call Number: E450 .N53 2023
ISBN: 9781625347671
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
Adrienne Kennedy
by
Adrienne Kennedy
Call Number: PS3561.E4252 A6 2023
ISBN: 9781598537512
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
The Darkened Light of Faith: race, democracy, and freedom in African American political thought
by
Melvin L. Rogers
Call Number: E185.96 .R58 2023
ISBN: 9780691219134
Publication Date: 2023-09-26
Campus to Counter
by
Brian Suttell (Contribution by)
Call Number: E185.61 .S95 2023
ISBN: 9780881468779
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing
by
Marilyn Sanders Mobley
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 Z777 2024
ISBN: 9781439924303
Publication Date: 2024-07-05
The Gift: how objects of prestige shaped the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism
by
Ana Lucia Araujo
Call Number: HT1322 .A73 2024
ISBN: 9781108839297
Publication Date: 2023-11-16
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