Library Guides: Africana Studies Library Guide: Books

Books Matter

In comparison to articles, books offer more thorough coverage of a topic, draw on a wider range of preexisting scholarship, and often excel in placing an argument in broader thematic and disciplinary context. Consider consulting scholarly books first in your own research. Use them to provide:

helpful introduction and overview of a topic;
comprehensive literature review that outlines the major scholars and existing points of view on a topic;
detailed study of a topic, usually broken down into manageable chapters;
extensive bibliography to guide you toward related works.

Books

Textures by Tameka Ellington (Editor); Joseph L. Underwood (Editor)
ISBN: 9783777435541
Publication Date: 2020-12-15
Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today.
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780593230251
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. The Origins of Our Discontents; is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Africana Studies by Mario Azevedo
ISBN: 9781594607325
Publication Date: 2019-02-01
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
ISBN: 9780385722704
Publication Date: 2009-01-13
This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery."
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
ISBN: 9780525560562
Publication Date: 2021-02-23
A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement. In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women.
Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis
ISBN: 9780394713519
Publication Date: 1983-02-12
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
Misogynoir Transformed by Moya Bailey
ISBN: 1479865109
Publication Date: 2021-05-25
Where racism and sexism meet--an understanding of anti-Black misogyny. At a time when Black women are depicted as more ugly, deficient, hypersexual, and unhealthy than their non-Black counterparts, Bailey explores how Black women have bravely used social-media platforms to confront misogynoir in a number of courageous--and, most importantly, effective--ways. A groundbreaking work, Misogynoir Transformed highlights Black women's remarkable efforts to disrupt mainstream narratives, subvert negative stereotypes, and reclaim their lives.