2017 African American Read-In Bibliography
Avery, Byllye. "Empowerment Through Wellness," Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, vol. 4, iss. 1, 1991.
Beatty, Paul. Joker, Joker, Deuce. Penguin Books, 1994.
Carter-Bey, Al. It Was Jug That I Dug: The Big Sound of Gene Ammons. KHA Books, 2015.
Chin, Staceyann. In Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Art & Literature. Third World Press, 2002.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic, June 2014. Retrieved from www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Dover, 1994.
Ellison, Ralph. “Hidden Name and Complex Fate.” In African-American Literature: An Anthology. NTC Pub. Group, 1998.
Garza, Alicia, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. “The Theft of Black Queer Women’s Work.” Retrieved from http://blacklivesmatter.com/
Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist : Essays. Harper Perennial, 2014.
Hughes, Langston. “Kids who Die.” In A New Song. International Workers Order, 1938.
Hughes, Langston. “Let America Be America Again.” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/let-america-be-america-again
Hughes, Langston. I, Too, Am America. Simon and Schuster, 2012.
King, B.B. “Lucille”. In The Blues Line : A Collection of Blues Lyrics. Ecco Press, 1993.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 2010.
Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. Dragonfly Books, 1996.
Ross, Fran. Oreo. New Directions, 2015.
Simone, Nina, and Stephen Cleary. I Put a Spell on You : The Autobiography of Nina Simone.Pantheon Books, 1991.
Staples, Brent A. “Black Men and Public Space.” Harper’s Magazine, Dec. 1986.
Washington, Booker T. Speech given to Harvard alumni. The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, vol.5, 1896-97. Retrieved from http://library.harvard.edu/02042014-1336/booker-t-washington-harvard
Wilson, August. Gem of the Ocean. Theatre Communications Group, 2006.