The Claire T. Carney Library celebrates Black and African American History Month. We honor a past filled with achievements and boundary-breaking while acknowledging that these boundaries were put in place by our nation’s forefathers and elected officials. We celebrate Black excellence, past, present, and future, knowing that there is more work to be done.
As a library, tangible action often takes the form of the information we choose to highlight. Below you’ll find links to a selection of library resources by Black authors and scholars.
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” – Frances Wright
The Claire T. Carney library is open to faculty, staff, and students. Our print book Black History Month display is located near the library entrance and includes:
- Traveling Black: A Story of race and resistance. – Mia Bay
- Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System – Tina K. Sacks
- Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter – Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
- Black Genius and the American Experience – Dick Russell
Films
- Daughters of the Dust
- Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Living Thinkers – An Autobiography of Women in the Ivory Tower
- Moonlight
- Soul Food Junkies – A Film About Family, Food & Tradition
- Tell Them We are Rising – The Story of Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Books
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Y. Davis
- Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics – Soyica Diggs Colbert
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton
- Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime – Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
- From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity – Miles White
- A History of African American Poetry – Lauri Ramey
- Infinite Hope : How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul – Anthony Graves
- My Culture, My Color, My Self: Heritage, Resilience, and Community in the Lives of Young Adults – Toby S. Jenkins
- Not Without Laughter – Langston Hughes
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