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African American Studies Book Library:
Polk Library has created a new resource page for the subject of African American Studies! It can be found here. You'll find research databases such as the Oxford African American Studies Center, Ethnic Newswatch, Political Science Complete and SocIndex with Full Text.
Below is a list of books that African American Studies currently holds in its personal collection. Feel free to stop by and check out a book in Sage 3465
| Author | Title of the Book |
| Abrahams | Deep Down the Jungle |
| Ackley | Essays from Contemporary Culture |
| Alexander |
The New Jim Crow |
| Alpers | The Pilates Book |
| Ama Ata Aidoo | Our Sister Killjoy |
| Anderson | The Pursuit of Fairness |
| Andrews, Pat | Voices of Diversity |
| Andrews, William L. | African American Autobiography |
| Anthony | Cookie Cutter |
| Aristotle |
On Rhetoric |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Best American Short Stories 1989 |
| Bailey | African American Mystery Writers x2 |
| Bailey | Death's Favorite Child |
| Bailey | Negro Politics in America |
| Bailey | Out of the Woodpile |
| Bakhtin | Rabelais and His World |
| Baldwin | Nobody Knows My Name |
| Bladwin |
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Baldwin | Price of the Ticket |
| Ball | Slaves in the Family |
| Bandyopadhyay | Picture Imperfect |
| Bardolphy, Richard | The Civil Rights Record |
| Barr | Blind Descent |
| Bean | Engaging Ideas |
| Bellamy | Looking Backwards x2 |
| Bender & Braveman | Power, Privilege and Law: A Civil Rights Reader |
| Bennett & Dickerson | Recovering the Black Female Body |
| Bennett, Lerone Jr. | Before the Mayflower |
| Berger | Equality by Statute |
| Bernstein | Generation Q |
| Blackburn | White Justice |
| Bland | A Dark & Deadly Deception |
| Bland | Dead Time |
| Bland | Shades of Black |
| Bland | Whispers in the Dark |
| Bland | Windy City Dying x2 |
| Bogle | Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks |
| Bogue | Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture |
| Bone | Down Home |
| Boyd | Brazzaville Beach |
| Bracey | On Racism |
| Bracey | Places in Political Time |
| Bracken | Bad Girls |
| Branch | At Canaan's Edge |
| Branch | Pillar of Fire |
| Broderick | Negro Protest Thought in the Twentieth Century |
| Brooks |
Maud Martha |
| Brooks | Report from Part One |
| Brooks | Selected Poems |
| Brown | Manchild in the Promised Land |
| Brown | Trumbull Park |
| Brown | Whitewashing Race |
| Bruce | The Black Sleuth |
| Bryant | Ella Price's Journal |
| Buckley | Congo Jack |
| Bundles |
Black Americans of Achievement: Madam C.J. Walker, Entrepreneur |
| Butler | Fledgling |
| Butler |
Blood Orchid |
| Campbell | Successful Woman, Angry Men |
| Canfield | The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary |
| Card |
The Redemption of Pastwatch |
| Carly | Black Ice |
| Carter | The Criminal Color: A Book of Realism |
| Carver | Fires |
| Carver | Were I'm Calling From |
| Cather | Three Complete Novels |
| Chamoiseau | Creole Folktales |
| Chandler | The Big Sleep |
| Chandler | The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely |
| Chandler | The Lady in the Lake |
| Chandler | The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler |
| Chang |
Lost One, Found One |
| Chappell | Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You |
| Chelby | We Who Are Dark |
| Christopher | America's Black Congressmen |
| Christopher | Somewhere in the Night |
| Cisneros | The House on Mango Street |
| Clarke | American Negro Short Stories |
| Clark-Lewis | Living In, Living Out |
| Cleaver | Soul on Ice |
| Cloward | The Politics of Turmoil |
| Coale | The Mystery of Mysteries |
| Cochran | American Noir |
| Cole | No Equal Justice |
| Cole, Johnnetta Betsch | Gender Talk |
| Collier-Thomas, Bettye | Sisters in the Struggle |
| Collins, Julia C. | The Curse of Taste; or the Slave Bride |
| Collins, Merle | Rotten Pomerack |
| Collins, Patricia | Black Sexual Politics |
| Conde, Maryse | The Last of the African Kings |
| Conde, Maryse | Land of Many Colors & Nanna-ya |
| Conde, Maryse | Windward Heights |
| Cooper, Clarence Jr. | The Scene |
| Copage, Eric V. | Soul Food |
| Cox, Earnest Sevier | Lincoln's Negro Policy |
| Craft, Hannah | The Bondwoman's Narrative |
| Crain, Robert L. | The Politics of School Desegregation |
| Cremin, Lawrence A. | American Education |
| Cruise, Harold | The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
| Cuthbert, Margaret | The Silent Cradle x2 |
| D'Angelo Douglas | Taking Sides: Fifth Edition |
| D'Angelo Douglas | Taking Sides: Sixth Edition |
| Darby & Shelby |
Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason |
| Darity & Myers | Persistently Disparity |
| Darity & Myers | The Black Underclass |
| Dashing Diamond Dicks | And Other Classic Dime Novels |
| Davis | I Got the Word in Me and I Can Sing It, You Know |
| Davis |
Women, Race, and Class |
| De Lauretis | Feminist Studies |
| Delany | Having Our Say |
| Delillo, Don | Underworld |
| DeLoach, Nora | Mama Cracks a Mask of Innocence |
| DeLoach, Nora | Mama Solves a Murder |
| Diaz, Junot | Drown |
| Dixon, Jr. |
The Clansmen |
| Douglass, Frederick | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Dove | Through the Ivory Gate |
| Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie |
| Du Bois | The Souls of the Black Folk x6 |
| Du Bois | The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Du Bois | Black Reconstruction in America |
| During, Simon | The Cultural Studies Reader |
| Dye, Thomas R. | The Politics of Equality |
| Dyer, Richard | The Matter of Images |
| Dymally, Mervyn M. | The Black Politician: His Struggle for Power |
| Early, Gerald | Speech and Power: Volume 1 |
| Early, Gerald | Speech and Power: Volume 2 |
| Eburne, Jonathan P. | Surrealism and the Art of Crime |
| Edwards, Grace F. | If I Should Die |
| Edwards, Grace F. | No Time to Die |
| Eley & Casstevens | The Politics of Fair-Housing Legislation |
| Ellison | Going to the Territory |
| Ellison | Invisible Man |
| Ellison | Shadow and Act |
| Equiano | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of… |
| Essien-Udom, E.U. | Black Nationalism |
| Evans |
Before You Suffocate Yourself |
| Evans, Gleason & Wlley | Cultural Tapestry |
| Ezorsky | Racism and Justice |
| Faber, Michel | Under the Skin |
| Fabre & Williams | A Street Guide to African Americans in Paris |
| Fagg, William | The Art of Central Africa |
| Fagg, William | The Art of Western Africa |
| Fanon, Frantz | The Wretched of the Earth |
| Ferre | The Youngest Doll |
| Ferster | Arguing Through Literature |
| Fisher, Rudolph | The City of Refuge |
| Fisher, Rudolph | The Conjure-Man Dies |
| Fisher, Sethard | Power and the Black Community |
| Fleming, Barbara | Hot Stones/ Cold Death |
| Folklore Forum | Volume 28, Number 1 1997 |
| Forester | Murdering Masculinities |
| Forrest | The Bloodworth Orphans |
| Foster, Frances Smith | A Brighter Coming Day |
| Foucault, Michel | Discipline & Punish |
| Franklin & Resnik | The Political Economy of Racism |
| Franklin, H. Bruce | Prison Writing in 20th-Century America |
| Franklin, John Hope | From Slavery to Freedom |
| Freccero | Popular Culture |
| Friedman, Leon | Southern Justice |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Bloodline |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | Mozart and Leadbelly |
| Gallagher | Rethinking the Color Line |
| Gates, et al |
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature x6 |
| George & Trimbur | Reading Culture |
| George, Elizabeth | What Came Before He Shot Her |
| Germano, William | Getting It Published |
| Giddings, Paula | When and Where I Enter |
| Gilfoyle | City of Eros |
| Gilmore, Glenda E. | Gender & Jim Crow |
| Gilyard & Wardi | African American Literature |
| Goddu |
Gothic America |
| Goines, Donald | White Man's Jutice, Black Man's Grief |
| Goldberg, Lee | Monk |
| Gordon | Assimilation in American Life |
| Gosnell | Negro Politicians |
| Greene, Robert E. | Black Courage 1775 - 1783 |
| Greenlee, Sam | The Spook Who Sat by the Door |
| Greer, Robert | Heat Shock |
| Greer, Robert | The Devil's Hatband |
| Griffith & McAlister | American Quarterly: Religion and Politics… |
| Gross, Kali N. | Colored Amazons |
| Gutman, Herbert G. | The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom |
| Hacker | The Bedford Handbook |
| Hambly, Barbara | Die Upon a Kiss |
| Hamilton, Charles V. | The Bench and the Ballot |
| Hamilton, Charles V. | The Black Experience in American Politics |
| Hammett, Dashiell | Red Harvest |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Glass Key |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese Falcon |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Thin Man |
| Harcourt & Brave & Jovanovich | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty |
| Hardwick, Gary | Cold Medina |
| Harley | Women's Labor in the Global Economy |
| Harris, Joel Chandler | Uncle Remus His Songs and His Saying |
| Harris, Trudier | Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin |
| Harris, Trudier | Saints, Sinners, Saviors |
| Haut, Woody | Neon Noir |
| Haywood, Gar Anthony | Black News Travels Fast |
| Haywood, Gar Anthony | Going Nowhere Fast |
| Haywood, Gar Anthony | You Can Die Trying |
| Herberle | Feminist Interpretations of Theodora Adoano |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Tourist Season |
| Higginbotham | Righteous Discontent |
| Hillerman, Tony | The Wailing Wind |
| Hine & Thompson | A Shining Thread of Hope |
| Hirschberg | One World, Many Cultures |
| Holden | The Politics of the Black "Nation" |
| Holton, Hugh | Windy City |
| Hooks & Messa-Bains | Homegrown |
| Hooks, Bell |
Outlaw Culture |
| Hooks, Bell |
The Contemporary African American Novel |
| Hooks, Bell |
Faces at the Bottom of the Well |
| Hooks, Bell | Black Looks |
| Hooks, Bell | Communion: Black Female Search For Love |
| Hooks, Bell | Salvation: Black People and Love |
| Hooks, Bell | We Real Cool |
| Hord | Reconstructing Memory |
| Horsley | Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction |
| Howells, William Dean | A Hazard of New Fortunes |
| Hughes | The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | I Love Myself |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Hutchinson | Cultural Portrayals of African Americans |
| Jacobs |
A Life |
| Jackson, Renay | Peanut's Revenge |
| Jackson, Shirely | The Lottery |
| James | The Spoils of Poynton |
| Jance, J.A. | Partner in Crime |
| Johnson | Street Justice |
| Johnson & Hendersen |
Black Queer Studies |
| Johnson & Lyne | Walkin' the Talk |
| Johnson, Charles | Middle Passage |
| Johnson, James Weldon | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
| Johnson, Mrs. A.E. | Clarence and Corinne / God's Way |
| Johnson, Pamela M. | From a Hard Rock to a Gem |
| Johnson, Pamela M. | I'll Cry Tomorrow |
| Jones & Shorter-Gooden | Shifting |
| Jones, Edward P. | Lost in the City |
| Jones, Lisa | Bulletproof Diva |
| Kaufman & Kay | "G" Is for Grafton |
| Kayser, Wolfgang | The Grotesque in Art and Literature |
| Kelley |
Race Rebels |
| Kelley |
YO' mama's disFUNKtional! |
| Kennedy, William | Legs |
| Kester, Suzy | Under My Own Colors |
| Kincaid, Jamaica | Annie John |
| King, James G. | The Biology of Race |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | The Poisonwood Bible |
| Kiser, Clyde Vernon | Sea Island to City |
| Klein | Diversity and Detective Fiction |
| Knight | The Caribbean |
| Knowles-Prewitt | Institutional Racism in America |
| Kutler, Stanley L. | The Dred Scott Decision |
| LaCapra, Dominick | Writing History, Writing Trauma |
| Ladner, Joyce A. | Tomorrow's Tomorrow |
| LaGuardia & Guth | American Voices |
| LaGuardia & Guth | American Voices |
| Lanehart, Sonja L. | Sista, Speak! |
| Layman & Rivett | Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett |
| Le Guth, Ursula K. | The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Lemert & Branaman | The Goffman Reader |
| Leontiev, A. | Political Economy |
| Lerner, Gerda | Black Women in White America |
| Lerner, Gerda | Black Women in White America |
| Leroy, Iola | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
| Lessing, Doris | African Stories |
| Levine | Black Culture and Black Consciousness |
| Lewis | Color, Hair, and Bone |
| Lewis, John | Walking with the Wind |
| Liebman | Ethnic Relations in America |
| Light | Making the Most of College |
| Limerick | The Legacy of Conquest |
| Linebaugh | The Many-Headed Hydra |
| Livingston | Fair Game? |
| Locke, Alain | The New Negro |
| Locke, Alain LeRoy | Race Contacts and Interracial Relations |
| Lodge, David | Paradise News |
| Long & Collier | Afro-American Writing |
| Lopez, Steve | The Sunday Macaroni Club |
| Lovell, Glenville | Love and Death in Brooklyn |
| Lowe, Jeanne R. | Cities in a Race With Time |
| MaCarthy, Comac | Blood Meridian |
| Major, Clarence | Dirty Bird Blues |
| Major, Clarence | Reflex & Bone Structure |
| Mann, Judy | The Difference: Growing Up Female in America |
| Mansfield-Kelley & Marchino | The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction |
| Marshall, Paule | Brown Girl, Brownstones |
| McCann | Gumshoe America |
| McClain & Stewart | "Can We All Get Along?" |
| McKnight |
Monstapha's Eclipse |
| Meltzer, Milton | In Their Own Words: A History of… |
| Melus | Varieties of Ethnic Criticism |
| Meriwether, Louise | Daddy Was a Number Runner |
| Mickelbury, Penny | Night Songs |
| Mickelbury, Penny | Two Graves Dug |
| Miller, Loren | The Petitioners |
| Moore |
The Other Wes Moore |
| Morrison, Toni | Love |
| Morrison, Toni | A Mercy |
| Morrison, Toni | Playing in the Dark |
| Morrison, Toni | Sula |
| Morrison, Toni | Jazz |
| Morrison, Toni | Songs of Solomon |
| Morrison, Toni | The Bluest Eye |
| Morson & Emerson | Mikhail Bakhtin |
| Mosley, Walter | Blue Light |
| Mosley, Walter | Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned |
| Mosley, Walter | Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned |
| Mosley, Walter | Blue Light |
| Mosley, Walter | Cinnamon Kiss |
| Mosley, Walter | Devil in a Blue Dress |
| Mosley, Walter | Gone Fishin' |
| Mosley, Walter | The Man in my Basement |
| Munt, Sally R. | Murder by the Books? |
| Murray, Albert | The Omni-Americans |
| Murray, Albert | The Spyglass Tree |
| Murray, Charles | Losing Ground |
| Myers, Gustavus | History of Bigotry in the United States |
| Naylor, Gloria | The Women of Brewster Place |
| Naylor, Gloria | Bailey's Circle |
| Neely, Barbara | Blanche Cleans Up |
| Neely, Barbara | Blanche Among the Talented Tenth |
| Neely, Barbara | Blanche Among the Talented Tenth |
| Neely, Barbara | Blanche on the Lam |
| Neely, Barbara | Blanche Passes Go |
| Neihardt | Black Elk Speaks |
| Nelscott, Kris | A Dangerous Road |
| Nelscott, Kris | Smoke-Filled Rooms |
| Nelson, Dana D. | National Manhood |
| Ng, Fae Myenne | Bone |
| Nieman | Promises to Keep |
| Nkrumah, Kwame | Class Struggle in Africa |
| Noll, James Wm. | Taking Sides: Educational Issues |
| Norment, Nathaniel | Reading in African American Language |
| Omi & Winant | Racial Formation in the United States |
| Ousby, Ian | Guilty Parties |
| Padura, Leonardo | Havana Blue |
| Painter | Creating Black Americans |
| Patterson | Black City Politics |
| Patterson | Zora Neale Hurston and A History of Southern Life |
| Patterson | Zora Neale Hurston and A History of Southern Life |
| Payton |
One Search with Research Navigator |
| Pelecanos, George P. | Hard Revolution |
| Pelecanos, George P. | King Suckerman |
| Pelecanos, George P. | Nick's Trip |
| Pelecanos, George P. | Right as Rain |
| Pelecanos, Geroge P. | The Big Blowdown |
| Pelecanos, Geroge P. | The Night Gardener |
| Pelecanos, Geroge P. | The Sweet Forever |
| Penzler, Otto | Black Noir |
| Pepper, Andrew | The Contemporary American Crime Novel |
| Perez-Reverte | The Club Dumas |
| Perry |
Prophets of the Hood |
| Petry, Ann | The Narrows |
| Petry, Ann | The Street |
| Pharr, Robert Deane | Giveadamn Brown |
| Pharr, Robert Deane | S.R.O. |
| Phillips | High Hand x2 |
| Phillips, Mike | Blood Rights |
| Phillips, Mike | Point of Darkness |
| Phillips, Mike | The Late Candidate |
| Polito, Robert | Savage Art: Biography of Jim Thompson |
| Porter | The Pursuit of Crime |
| Prucher |
Brave New Words |
| Rabelais, Francois | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| Raymond, Derek | He Died with His Eyes Open |
| Reddy | Reading Race in Crime Fiction |
| Redmann | The Intersection of Law and Desires |
| Rhines | Black Film/White Money |
| Roberts & Jacobs | Literature |
| Roediger, David R. | The Wages of Whiteness |
| Rose |
Black Noise |
| Rosen | The Academic Writer's Handbook |
| Rosenberg | Can These Bones Live? |
| Ross | Oreo |
| Rotheberg | Racism and Sexism |
| Ruiz DuBois | Unequal Sisters |
| Saillis, James | Eye of the Cricket |
| Salomone, Rosemary C. | Equal Education Under Law |
| Sampson, Anthony | Mandela |
| Sanchez |
Next Step |
| Schwartz | The Detective Story |
| Schwartz, Alison Mundy | A Century of Great African-Americans |
| Sears & McConahay | The Politics of Violence |
| Seranella, Barbara | No Man Standing |
| Shannon, Ray | Firecracker |
| Shannon, Ray | Man Eater |
| Shelby | We Who Are Dark |
| Sigler, Jay A. | American Rights Policies |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony |
| Silverman, Sondra | The Black Revolt and Democratic Politics |
| Simmons, Herbert | Man Walking on Eggshells |
| Simon & Edwards | The Corner |
| Sindler | Bakke, Defunis, and Minority Admissions |
| Singer, Gammy L. | The Landlord's Tale |
| Skar | Women's Rights merges within the Antislavery Movement |
| Skinner, Robert | Blood to Drink |
| Skinner, Robert | Cat-Eyed Trouble |
| Skinner, Robert | Pale Shadow |
| Skinner, Robert | Skin Deep Blood Red |
| Skinner, Robert | Skin Deep Blood Red |
| Slim | Mama Black Widow |
| Smiley, Jane | Moo |
| Smith, Alexander McCall | The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency x2 |
| Smith, Erin A. | Hard Boiled |
| Snyder, Gary | The Back Country |
| Soitos | The Blues Detective |
| Soyinka, Wole | The Interpreters |
| Spiegelman, Peter | Black Maps |
| Stalin | Dialectical and Historical Materialism |
| Stanford | Now and Then |
| Steinbeck, John | The Grapes of Wraths |
| Stone, Chuck | Black Political Power in America |
| Strathmore, William | Muhammad Ali |
| Strode & Wood |
The Hip Hop Reader |
| Sullivan | Civil Rights and Liberties |
| Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn | Women in Africa and the African Diaspora |
| Terry, Robert W. | For Whites Only |
| Thompson, Carlyle Van | Eating the Black Body |
| Thompson, Jim | A Hell of a Woman |
| Thompson, Jim | Bad Boy |
| Thompson, Jim | Fireworks |
| Thompson, Jim | Pop. 1280 |
| Thompson, Jim | Roughneck |
| Thompson, Jim | The Golden Gizmo |
| Thompson, Jim | The Kill-Off |
| Tolkien, J. R.R. | The Hobbit |
| Tomashino | Discovering Popular Cultures |
| Tompkins, Peter | Secrets of the Great Pyramids |
| Topp, Micheal M. | The Sacco and Vanzetti Case |
| Trachenberg | The Incorporation of America |
| Tramble |
The Dying Ground |
| Tursten, Helene | Detective Inspector Huss |
| Tussman, Joseph | The Supreme Court on Racial Discrimination |
| Twine, Winddance | Racism in a Racial Democracy |
| Uphaus & Foster | The "Other" Eighteenth Century |
| U.S. Riot Commission Report |
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders |
| Varley |
Steel Beach |
| Vieira | Civial Rights |
| Walker, Alice | How I wrote Jubilee |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Walker, Alice | The Rights Revolution |
| Walker, Alice | The Third Life of Grange Copeland |
| Wallace & Dent |
Black Popular Culture |
| Washington, DuBois, Johnson |
Three Negro Classics |
| Watkins, Mel | African American Humor |
| Watkins, S. Craig |
Hip Hop Matters |
| Weinberg | Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames |
| Wells | Crusade for Justice: the Autobiography of Ida B. Wells |
| Welty | Delta Wedding |
| West, Chassie | Killing Kin |
| West, Cornell |
Race Matters |
| West, Dorothy | The Living Is Easy |
| Westlake, Donald E. | Baby, Would I Lie? |
| Wheeler | Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America |
| White, Deborah Gray | Ar'n't I a Woman? |
| White, Deborah Gray | Telling Histories |
| White, Deborah Gray | Too Heavy A Load |
| Whitehead |
Sag Harbor |
| Wideman, John Edgar | Philadelphia Fire |
| Wiggins | O Freedom! |
| Williams & Abbott |
Introduction to Bibliographical Textual Studies |
| Williams, John | !Click Song |
| Williams, John |
Captain Blackman |
| Williams, John | Into the Badlands |
| Williams, John | Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light |
| Williams, John | The Angry Ones |
| Williams, John | The Man Who Cried I am |
| Williams, John | The Man Who Cried I am |
| Wilson, Harriet |
Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black |
| Wilson, Jamese Q. | Negro Politics: The Search For Leadership |
| Wilson, William Julius | The Truly Disadvantaged |
| Wilson-Fried | Outside Child |
| Wintz, Cary D. | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Wisconsin Review | Volume 39, Issue 2 |
| Wolcott | Remaking Respectability |
| Wolfe, Tom | The Bonfire of the Canities |
| Wolffin | Principles of Art History |
| Wood, Paula L | Development Arrested |
| Woods | Inner City Blues |
| Woods, Paula L. Woods | Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes |
| Wright, Thomas | A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art |
| X, Malcolm | The Autobiography of Malcolm X. |
| Young, Al | African American Literature |
