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Black Lives Matter and the Black Experience

A collection of resources that highlights the experiences of Black people. It also includes learning tools, data, and ways to contribute.

Books/ebooks (through SMCCD Library or Peninsula Library System)

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

CSM physical book and eBook access

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

CSM physical book and eBook access

How We Fight for Our Lives

PLS eBook access

Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology

CSM physical book and eBook access

How To Be An Antiracist

PLS eBook access

So you want to talk about race

CSM physical book and PLS eBook access

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

CSM physical book and EBSCO eBook access

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

eBook access

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

PLS eBook access

All the Colors We Are: The Story of how We Get Our Skin Color

CSM physical book access

Ain't I a woman: Black Women and Feminism (audiobook)

CSM physical book and ProQuest ebook access

Between the World and Me

CSM physical book and PLS eBook access

Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir (eBook)

PLS eBook access

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

CSM physical book and PLS eBook access

Without Sanctuary

Skyline physical book access

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

CSM eBook Central access

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Skyline physical book and CSM eBook access

Good Talk (ebook)

PLS eBook access

The Color of Law

CSM physical book and PLS eBook access

Black Pain

Skyline physical book and eBook access

The Silence of Our Friends

Cañada physical book access 

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

eBook Central access

Race Matters

CSM physical book access

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

CSM physical book access

Chokehold: Policing Black Men

eBook Central access

Song of Solomon

CSM physical book PLS ebook and audiobook access

The Day You Begin (eBook)

PLS eBook access

More Book Lists

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• Timelines

• A roundup of African American bibliographies on Cultural Front


Poetry
• Poetry by black writers, 2000 - 2019
• 160 volumes of poetry by black women, 2000 - 2019

2020
• May 21: A book list for black boys
• February 23: A checklist of Black Arts-related scholarship, 1999 - 2018

2019
• December 24: Poetry by black writers, 2000 - 2019
• December 21: Novels by black writers, 2000 - 2019
• December 17: Books about Hip Hop, 2000 - 2019
• December 16: Short story collections by black writers, 2000 - 2019
• November 19: A Roundup of African American single-author studies
• November 19: A Bibliography of Black Writer Biographies
• November 16: 50 Black Autobiographies and Memoirs, 1845 - 2019
• August 30: 110 novels by black men, 2000 - 2019
• August 25: 160+ novels by black women, 2000 - 2019
• June 29: 160 volumes of poetry by black women, 2000 - 2019
• June 9: From Jubilee to The Water Dancer: 25 novels about slavery

2018
• August 19: 50 scholarly books on black poetry, 1997-2018

2016
• May 29: Black men writers and creativity, 1995 - 2016
• May 27: The greatest 25 years in African American women's writing?

2015
• October 17: Books on Hip Hop

Related:
• Books noted lists