Celebrating Black History Month
MSMC Celebrates Black History Month
As an ongoing celebration of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight a few books, films, podcasts, and more that we recommend to the campus community. Items available in Kaplan Library are linked (in blue) below.
black life in america
A special collection available as part of an on-campus database trial.
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.
Learn about this database collection:
- This brief video provides an overview of the Black Life in America collection.
- This How To video shows popular features in this database.
- Search Tips – a PDF with tips and tricks for effective, efficient searches
Books
The Black Calhouns: from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
by Gail Lumet Buckley
Blindspot: hidden biases of good people
by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Caste: The origins of our discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
Four hundred souls: a community history of African America, 1619-2019
by edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blai
How to be an antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
I’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The kidnapping club: Wall Street, slavery, and resistance on the eve of the Civil War(Ebook)
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
(1)ne drop: shifting the lens on race
by Yaba Blay
A question of freedom: the families who challenged slavery from the nation's founding to the Civil War
byWilliam G. Thomas III
So you want to talk about race
by Ijeoma Oluo
They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement
by Wesley Lowery
The three mothers: how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Vanguard: how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all
by Martha S. Jones
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
White fragility: why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism (Print book) and (Ebook)
by Robin DiAngelo
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?: and other conversations about race
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Children's Books
Betty before X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Concrete Rose (YA)
by Angie Thomas
Crown: an ode to the fresh cut
by Derrick Barnes
The day you begin
by Jacqueline Woodson
The double bass blues
by Andrea Loney
Genesis begins again
by Alicia D. Williams
Hair love
by Matthew A. Cherry
Let the children march
by Monica Clark-Robinson
The hate u give (YA)
by Angie Thomas
Films
Podcasts
Code Switch
(NPR)
Ear Hustle
(Radiotopia)
Fresh Air Interview with Bryan Stevenson