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African American History Month

Beskrivelse: A partial list of books and videos in Erickson Library of possible interest to those wanting learn more about African American history and the cultural influence of African Americans. This list is not exhaustive of all titles in our collection that would meet this criteria, but is a good start for those wanting to find out more.

Rank Titel Forfatter Tilføjet

1

Their Eyes Were Watching God

af Zora Neale Hurston

19,216 medlemmer

347 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: LSC_Library, ahef1963

2

af Michelle Obama

8,572 medlemmer

345 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

2 Members: LSC_Library, ahef1963

3

Blå blå øjne

af Toni Morrison

13,531 medlemmer

240 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: LSC_Library

4

Arven fra min far

af Barack Obama

9,539 medlemmer

211 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: LSC_Library

5

The Hate U Give

af Angie Thomas

9,369 medlemmer

477 anmeldelser

½ 4.5

Member: LSC_Library

6

af James Baldwin

4,817 medlemmer

132 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: LSC_Library

7

2,032 medlemmer

73 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

8

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

af Ta-Nehisi Coates

861 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

4

Member: LSC_Library

9

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

af Jacqueline L. Tobin

698 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

3

Member: LSC_Library

10

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

af Toni Morrison

599 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

4

Member: LSC_Library

11

Hidden Figures [2016 film]

af Theodore Melfi

595 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: LSC_Library

12

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

af Henry Louis Jr Gates

507 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: LSC_Library

13

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

af Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

479 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 4.5

Member: LSC_Library

14

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

af Alice Walker

443 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: LSC_Library

15

Jackie Robinson: A Biography

af Arnold Rampersad

362 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: LSC_Library

16

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

af Lorraine Hansberry

346 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

17

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

af Kwame Onwuachi

285 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: LSC_Library

18

The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose

af Oprah Winfrey

279 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: LSC_Library

19

I May Not Get There with You : The True Martin Luther King, Jr.

af Michael Eric Dyson

249 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.3

Member: LSC_Library

20

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves

200 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

Member: LSC_Library

21

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

af William C. Rhoden

177 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: LSC_Library

22

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

af Coretta Scott King

176 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: LSC_Library

23

Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution

af Jerome Charyn

171 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.2

Member: LSC_Library

24

The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

af Taylor Branch

164 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

25

African-American Art

af Sharon F. Patton

153 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4.1

Member: LSC_Library

26

Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

af Sybrina Fulton

147 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: LSC_Library

27

American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

af Gary Gerstle

144 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: LSC_Library

28

Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball

af Lawrence D. Hogan

139 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: LSC_Library

29

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm

af Gail Lumet Buckley

129 medlemmer

½ 4.6

Member: LSC_Library

30

Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South

af Robert Goodwin

116 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

Member: LSC_Library

31

Louis Armstrong's New Orleans

af Thomas Brothers

100 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

32

On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance

af Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

100 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: LSC_Library

33

Roots [1977 TV miniseries]

99 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

34

I Am Not Your Negro [2016 film]

97 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: LSC_Library

35

Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

af Robert J. Norrell

97 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

36

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

96 medlemmer

3

Member: LSC_Library

37

My Soul to Take

af Tananarive Due

92 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: LSC_Library

38

Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power

af Gerald Posner

91 medlemmer

2.8

Member: LSC_Library

39

The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family

af Gail Lumet Buckley

86 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: LSC_Library

40

Atlas of African-American History

af James Ciment

77 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

41

Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Lisland Lifesavers

af David Wright

71 medlemmer

½ 3.7

Member: LSC_Library

42

Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit

af Suzanne E. Smith

69 medlemmer

3.8

Member: LSC_Library

43

Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being

63 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

44

In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past

af Henry Louis Jr Gates

63 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: LSC_Library

45

The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military

af Gerald Astor

55 medlemmer

5

Member: LSC_Library

46

We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

af Richard Paul

55 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.2

Member: LSC_Library

47

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

af Eric Etheridge

51 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 4.6

Member: LSC_Library

48

Mulatto America: At the Crossroads of Black and White Culture: A Social History

af Stephan Talty

46 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 2.5

Member: LSC_Library

49

Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality

af Bruce Nelson

41 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

50

The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal

af Mark Ribowsky

41 medlemmer

½ 3.7

Member: LSC_Library

51

Picturing the Promise the Scurlock Studio and Black Washington

af Donna M. Wells

37 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

52

Lynchings in Duluth (Borealis Books)

af Michael Fedo

36 medlemmer

½ 4.3

Member: LSC_Library

53

George Washington Carver: A Life (Southern Biography Series)

af Christina Vella

32 medlemmer

5

Member: LSC_Library

54

Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present

af Alton Hornsby

30 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

55

Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor

af Frank N. Schubert

28 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

Member: LSC_Library

56

Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football In Their Own Words

af Andy Piascik

26 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: LSC_Library

57

American Daughter (Borealis Books)

af Era Bell Thompson

24 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

58

Roots: The Next Generations [1979 TV mini series]

af Georg Stanford Brown

23 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

5

Member: LSC_Library

59

Black Cowboys of Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University)

af Sara R. Massey

23 medlemmer

½ 4.5

Member: LSC_Library

60

A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II

af Jennifer C. James

21 medlemmer

5

Member: LSC_Library

61

Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State

af Christopher P. Lehman

20 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

62

Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution [2015 film]

af Stanley Nelson

20 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

63

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder

af Mark Ribowsky

20 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

64

The Girls Are Coming

af Peggie Carlson

19 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

65

Black Baseball: A History of African-Americans & the National Game

18 medlemmer

5

Member: LSC_Library

66

Soul Style : Black Women Redefining the Color of Fashion

af Duane Thomas

18 medlemmer

2

Member: LSC_Library

67

Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota

18 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

68

Ace Records: Labels Unlimited

af David Stubbs

17 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

69

Marching in Birmingham (The Civil Rights Movement)

af William J. Boerst

16 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

70

They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers

15 medlemmer

3

Member: LSC_Library

71

Somalis in Minnesota

af Ahmed I. Yusuf

15 medlemmer

3

Member: LSC_Library

72

A History of the Black Press (Moorland-Spingarn Series)

af Armistead S. Pride

14 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

73

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912

af William D. Green

14 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

74

African American Quiltmaking in Michigan

af Marsha MacDowell

12 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

75

The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms (African American History Series)

af James E. Westheider

12 medlemmer

2

Member: LSC_Library

76

Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War

af Daniel S. Lucks

12 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

77

African American Dance: An Illustrated History

af Barbara S. Glass

11 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

78

Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance (Writers of English)

af Harold Bloom

11 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

79

African American midwifery in the South : dialogues of birth, race, and memory

af Gertrude Jacinta Fraser

11 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

80

Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf

af Calvin H. Sinnette

10 medlemmer

5

Member: LSC_Library

81

Legacy Of Violence: Lynch Mobs And Executions In Minnesota

af John D. Bessler Bessler

10 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

82

Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (Sports and Entertainment)

af David K. Wiggins

9 medlemmer

½ 4.5

Member: LSC_Library

83

Overcoming: The Autobiography of W. Harry Davis

af W. Harry Davis

9 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

84

Swinging for the Fences: Black Baseball in Minnesota

af Steven R. Hoffbeck

8 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

85

Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912

af Paul D. Nelson

6 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

86

The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights

af Thomas Aiello

6 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

87

Walter Dean Myers: A Literary Companion (McFarland Literary Companion)

af Mary Ellen Snodgrass

6 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

88

They Played for the Love of the Game: Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota

af Frank M. White

6 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

89

Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience

af David Stricklin

5 medlemmer

4

Member: LSC_Library

90

Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone

af David V. Taylor

5 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

91

A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois

af Nick Bromell

4 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

92

Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers

af William C. Banfield

4 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

93

Harlem Renaissance

af William S. McConnell

4 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

94

Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks (1999-01-01)

af Rosa Parks;Jim Haskins

3 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

95

African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories

af Alan Govenar

2 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

96

Richard Durham's Destination freedom : scripts from radio's Black legacy, 1948-50

af Richard Durham

2 medlemmer

Member: LSC_Library

97

Black newspapers and America's war for democracy, 1914-1920

af William G. Jordan

1 medlem

Member: LSC_Library

98

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

af Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel

1 medlem

Member: LSC_Library

99

Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis (Sports and Entertainment) (v. 1)

af Sundiata Djata

Member: LSC_Library

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Begyndt: LSC_Library
februar 2020
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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