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African-American History Subject Guide

Discover and learn where to search for books, articles, media, primary sources, and other sources in Meredith's collections related to African American History.

Collections

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Call Number: 813 Ad49f
ISBN: 9781328911247
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates; Genevieve West
Call Number: 813 H946y
ISBN: 9780063043855
Publication Date: 2022-01-18
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807877050
Publication Date: 2006-12-08
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by); The New The New York Times Magazine (Created by); Caitlin Roper (Editor); Ilena Silverman (Editor); Jake Silverstein (Editor)
Call Number: 973 H195s
ISBN: 9780593230572
Publication Date: 2021-11-16
Fever Within by Bernard L. Herman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781469627632
Publication Date: 2016-02-29
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
Call Number: 810.8 W458
ISBN: 9780525619772
Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: 973.0496073 F825
ISBN: 9780593134047
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
The New Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Maria Tatar (Editor)
Call Number: 398.2089 An781
ISBN: 9780871407535
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Contemporary Plays by African American Women by Sandra Adell (Editor); Et al.
ISBN: 9780252097812
Publication Date: 2015-12-15

Poetry

Black Sister by Erlene Stetson (Editor)
Call Number: 811.08 St42
ISBN: 9780253305121
Publication Date: 1981-12-01
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (LOA #333) by Kevin Young (Editor)
Call Number: 811.008 Af833
ISBN: 9781598536669
Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat by Khalisa Rae
Call Number: 811 R12g
ISBN: 9781597098854
Publication Date: 2021-04-12
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy
ISBN: 9781299877504
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Call Number: 811 G68c
ISBN: 9780593465066
Publication Date: 2021-12-07
The Works of James M. Whitfield by Robert S. Levine (Editor); Ivy G. Wilson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807877814
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni
Call Number: 811 G439g
ISBN: 9780062399458
Publication Date: 2017-10-24
The Poetry of Black America by Arnold Adoff (Editor); Gwendolyn Brooks (Introduction by)
Call Number: 811.08 Ad7
ISBN: 9780060200909
Publication Date: 1973-04-01
I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
ISBN: 9780822986164
Publication Date: 2018-09-18

Novels

No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
Call Number: 813 W349n
ISBN: 9781410497918
Publication Date: 2017-06-21
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
Call Number: 813 N23m
ISBN: 9780679721819
Publication Date: 1989-04-23
Sula by Toni Morrison
Call Number: 813 M8335su
ISBN: 9781400033430
Publication Date: 2004-06-08
Home to Harlem by Claude McKay; Wayne F. Cooper (Contribution by)
Call Number: 813 M192h
ISBN: 9781555530235
Publication Date: 1987-11-30
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: 813 B9775p
ISBN: 9780941423991
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
ISBN: 9781565129627
Publication Date: 2010-02-16
Passing by Nella Larsen
Call Number: 813 L329p
ISBN: 9780405019302
Publication Date: 1970-04-01
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: 813 G996h
ISBN: 9781101947135
Publication Date: 2016-06-07
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: 813 C632w
ISBN: 9780399590597
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Call Number: 813 J7101a
ISBN: 9781616208776
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781504001588
Publication Date: 2014-12-30
The Man Who Lived Underground: a Novel by Richard Wright; Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
Call Number: 813 W935m
ISBN: 9781598536768
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: 813 W587n
ISBN: 9780385537070
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: 813 W151c 1992
ISBN: 9780151191543
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by)
Call Number: 813 H946t 1998
ISBN: 9780060916503
Publication Date: 1900-01-01