The Fourteenth National African American Read-In

Adams, Jenoyne

 Resurrecting Mingus, The Free Press, 2001

813.6 A214r

Alexander, Adele Logan

 Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926, Pantheon Books, 1999. History

974.461 A374h

Angelou, Maya

 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1983. Autobiography (Plus any of her other works.)

811.54 A584IK

Ashe, Arthur

 Days of Grace: A Memoir, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993. Autobiography

796.342092 A824D

Baldwin, James

 Go Tell It on the Mountain, Dell Publishing, 1985. Non-fiction (Plus any of his other works.)

813.54 B181G1981

Bambara, Toni Cade

Gorilla, My Love, Random House, 1981. Short Story Collection

813.54 B199G

Beals, Melba Pattilo

Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, Pocket Books, 1994. Biography

370.19342 B366w1995

Bell, Derrick

Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester, Beacon Press, 1994. Essays (Plus any of his other works)

340.0711744B433C

Bell-Scott, Patricia, et.al.

Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters, Beacon Press, 1991. Poems, stories, essays

810.8035 D727

Bennett, Lerone

The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619 to the 1990s, Viking Penguin, 1993. History

973.0496 B471S

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, Viking Penguin, 1984. History

973 B471B1984

Bontemps, Arna

American Negro Poetry, 1982. Poetry (Plus any of his other works.)

811.508 B722A1974

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Children Coming Home, The David Company, 1991. Poetry

811.54 B873C

Selected Poems, HarperCollins Publishers, 1982. (Plus any of her other works.)

811.54 B873S

Brown, Elaine

A Taste of Power, Pantheon Books, 1992. Autobiography

973.0496073 B877T1994

Brown, Sterling A.

The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, Broadside Press, 1990. (Compiled by Michael S. Harper) Poetry

811.54 B879C

Busby, Margaret (ed.)

Daughters of Africa, Pantheon Books, 1992. (International anthology of words and writings by women of African descent.)

808.899287 D238

Campbell, Bebe Moore

What You Owe Me, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001

813.54 C187w

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

The President’s Daughter, Crown Publishers, 1994. Historical Novel

813.54 C487P1995

Clifton, Lucille

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2000. Poetry

811.54 C639bb

Comer, James P.

Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family, Dutton/New American Library, 1989. Autobiography

305.896092 C732YC1989

Cooper, J. California

Family, Doubleday, 1992. Fiction (Plus any of her other works.)

813.54 C777F

Cose, Ellis

The Rage of a Privileged Class, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Essays

305.896073 C834R

Dance, Daryl Cumber (ed.)

Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor, W.W. Norton & Co., 1988. Anthology

817.088 H772

Davis, Angela

Women, Race and Class, Random House, 1983. Non-fiction

305.42 D261 W

Dellums, Ronald V. & H. Lee Halterman

Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power, Beacon Press, 2000. Memoir

328.73 D358L

Delpit, Lisa

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, New Press, 1995. Essays

370.196 D363O

Dickerson, Debra J.

An American Story, Pantheon Books, 2000. Memoir

070.92 D549a

Douglass, Frederick

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Reprint Services Corp, 1992. Autobiography

973.8 D737n

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Reprint Services Corp, 1992.

811.4 D899P

Dyson, Michael Eric

I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr., Simon & Schuster, 2000. Nonfiction

323.092 K53Yd

Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1996. Essays

305.800973 D998r

Edelman, Marian Wright

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors, Beacon Press, 1999

362.7092 E21L

Ellison, Ralph (Ed.)

Juneteenth, Random House, 1999. Fiction

813.54 E47j

Gaines, Ernest

A Lesson Before Dying, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993. Fiction

813.54 G142L

A Gathering of Old Men, Random House, 1992. Fiction (Plus any of his other works.)

813.54 G142G

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997

810.80896 N882

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis & Cornel West

The Future of the Race, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Essays

305.896073 G259F

Giddings, Paula

When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1985. Non-fiction

305.42 G453W

Golden, Marita

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues, Doubleday, 1993. Essays

810.809287 W668

Gordon-Reed, Annette

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy, University Press of Virginia, 1997. Non-Fiction

973.46 G665tj

Gwaltney, John Langston

Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America, Random House,1981. Non-fiction

305.896 D799

Haley, Alex & Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ballantine Books, 1992. Autobiography

320.54092 X1YH

Hamilton, Virginia

The People Could Fly, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. Folktales (Young adult. Plus any of her other works.)

398.2 H221P

Harley, Sharon & Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Eds.)

The Afro-American Woman: Struggles & Images, Black Classic Press, 1997. History

301.412 A258

Harper, Michael S. (ed.) & Anthony Walton

The Vintage Bok of African American Poetry: 200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets, Vintage Books, 2000.

811.0080896

Hine, Darlene Clark & Kathleen Thompson

A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, Broadway Books, 1998. History

305.48896073 H662S

Hooks, Bell

Black Looks: Race and Representation, South End Press, 1992. Essays

305.48896 H784B

Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Black Odyssey: The Afro-American Ordeal in Slavery, Random House, 1990. History

301.4493 H891B1990

Hughes, Langston

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, Volume 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001

818.5209 H893c

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1941-1950, Volume 2, University of Missouri Press, 2001

818.5209 H893c

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory, Volume 4, University of Missouri Press, 2001

818.5209 H893c

Selected Poems, Random House, 1990. Poetry (Plus any of his other works.)

811 H893 S1993

Hull, Gloria T. (Ed.)

Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1984. Non-fiction

818.5203 D899G

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne

In My Place, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. Memoir

070.92 H945I1993

Hurston, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God, HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. Fiction (Plus any of her other works.)

813.52 H966T

Johnson, Charles

Middle Passage, Dutton/New American Library, 1991. Fiction

813.54 J64M1991

Johnson, James Weldon

God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Viking Penguin, 1990. Poetry (Plus any of his other works.)

811.52 J67 G1990

Jones, Quincy

Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Doubleday, 2001.

781.65092 J78q

Kincaid, Jamaica

The Autobiography of My Mother, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. Novel (Plus any of her other works.)

813 K51AU

Ladson-Billings, Gloria

Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children, Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1997. Essays

370.8996 L157d

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara

I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1994. Personal Essays

920.009296 L724I

Lester, Julius

To Be A Slave, Scholastic, Inc., 1986. Non-fiction

[CL]326L

Madhubuti, Haki

Groundwork: New & Selected Poems, 1966-1996, Third World Press, 1996. Poetry

811.54 L477G

Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk to Freedom, Little, Brown, 1994. Autobiography

968.06 M271L

McCall, Nathan

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, Random House, 1994. Autobiography

305.3896073 M122M

McKay, Claude

Selected Poems, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1969. Poetry

811.52 M153S

McKissack, Patricia

Christmas in the Big House; Christmas in the Quarters, Scholastic, Inc., 1994. Non-fiction/Young Adult

[CL]975.03M

Mirandy and Brother Wind, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. Fiction (Children's author) (Plus any of her other works)

E MCK

McMillan, Terry

A Day Late and A Dollar Short, Viking Press, 2001

813.54 M167d 2002

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Viking Penguin, 1996.

813.54 M167h

Waiting to Exhale, Viking Penguin, 1992. Fiction

813.54 M167W

Disappearing Acts, Viking Penguin, 1989. Fiction

813.54 M167di 2002

Miller, E. Ethelbert

Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer, St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

811.54 M647f

Moody, Anne

Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography, Dell Publishing, 1991.

917.6225 M817C

Morrison, Toni

The Bluest Eye, Dutton/Plume, 2000. Reprint

813.54 M882B

Paradise, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Fiction

813.54 M882P

Jazz, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1992. Fiction

813.54 M882J

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness & the Literary Imagination, Harvard University Press, 1992. Criticism

810.98034 M882P

Beloved, Dutton/New American Library, 1991. Fiction (Plus any of her other works.)

813.54 M882BE

Myers, Walter Dean

The Glory Field, Scholastic, Inc., 1994. Fiction/Young Adult

C34P927g 2000 T.res.

Fallen Angels, Scholastic, Inc., 1989. Adult

FIC MYE

Naylor, Gloria

The Men of Brewster Place, Hyperion Books, 1998. Fiction

813.54 N333mb

Bailey's Cafe, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Fiction

813.54 N333b

Nelson, Jill

Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman, Putnam Publishing Group, 1997. Essay

070.92 N427S

Volunteer Slavery, Noble Press, 1993. Memoir (Plus any of her other works.)

070.92 N427V

Page, Clarence

Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. Essays

305.896073 P132S

Painter, Nell I.

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. Biography

305.567092 P148S

Parks, Gordon

The Learning Tree, Fawcett, 1987. Fiction

813.54 P252L

Pemberton, Gayle

The Hottest Water in Chicago, Faber & Faber Inc., 1992. Autobiography

305.896092 P395H

Perry, Theresa & Lisa Delpit

The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children, Beacon Press, 1988. Essay

371.8296073 R288ed

Proctor, Samuel Dewitt

The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith, Putnam Publishing, 1996. Memoir

286.1 P964S

Rampersad, Arnold

The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I-1986, Volume II-1988, Oxford University Press. Biography

811.52 H893YR

Randall, Dudley

The Black Poets, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1985. Poetry

811.08 R188B

Reid-Merritt, Patricia

Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top, John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Essays

305.48896 R359s

Rowan, Carl T.

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Little, Brown & Co., 1993. Biography

323.1196073 T767D

Smith, Jessie Carney

Notable Black American Women, Gale Research, Inc., 1991.

[R]920.7208996 N899

Smitherman, Geneva

Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America, Routledge, 1999. Nonfiction

427.973 S664t

Steptoe, John

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1987. Folktale (Children's author)

STE

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1984. Fiction (Young adult)

FIC TAY

Terry, Wallace

Bloods, Ballantine, 1992. History-Vietnam War

959.704 B665

Toomer, Jean

Cane, W.W. Norton & Co., 1987. Poetry

813.52 T672C

Tutu, Desmond

The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution, Doubleday, 1994. Essays

968.063 T966R

Walker, Alice

The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Fiction

813.54 W177C1985

Walker, Margaret

Jubilee, Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1984. Fiction

813.54 W182J

Washington, Mary Helen

Memory of Kin, Doubleday, 1991. Collection of Short Stories. (Plus any of her other works.)

810.80352 M533

West, Cornel

Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America, Beacon Press, 1997.

305.896073 W516R

Race Matters, Beacon Press, 1993. Essays

305.800973 W516R

Whitehead, Colson

John Henry Days: A Novel, Doubleday, 2001. Fiction

813.54 W592j

Wideman, John Edgar

Sent For You Yesterday, Random House, 1988. Fiction

813.54 W639H

Williams, John A.

The Man Who Cried I Am, Thunders Mouth Press, 1985. Fiction

813.54 W724M

Williams, Patricia J.

The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor, Harvard University Press, 1991.

342.730873 W726A

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Like Sisters on the Homefront, Puffin Books, 1995. Young Adult (Plus any of her other works.)

FIC WIL

Worley, Demetrice A. & Jesse Perry, Jr.

African American Literature, National Textbook Company, 1993. Anthology

810.80896 A258

Wright, Richard

Black Boy, HarperCollins Publishers, 1969. Autobiography

813.52 W952B