Bibliography

Below is the list of the titles that were suggested. The vast majority of suggested titles were held by the Library. The books we did not own were ordered for the collection.

If you would like to add a suggestion to the Bibliography, please contact Anne Knafl.

Suggestions are arranged alphabetically by author. Last updated February 22, 2020.

• Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann, 1958.
• Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah: A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Foreword by Cornel West. New York: New Press, 2012.
• Anderson, Victor. Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay On African American Religious and Cultural Criticism. New York: Continuum, 1995.
• Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Edited by Mildred R Mickle. First edition 1969. Pasadena.: Salem Press, 2010.
• Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On the Mountain. New York: Knopf, 1953.
• -- The fire next time. New York: Dell., 1964.
• --. Giovanni's Room. First edition 1956. New York: Dell, 1985.
• Biss, Eula. Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2009.
• Bloom, Joshua, and Waldo E. Martin. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
• brown, adrienne maree and Walidah Imarisha, eds. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2015.
• brown, adrienne maree Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017.
• Brown, Jericho. The Tradition. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.
• Brown, Michael Joseph. Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2004.
• Brown, Teresa L. Fry. Weary Throats and New Songs: Black Women Proclaiming God's Word. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.
• --. Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008.
• Carmichael, Stokely, and Michael Thelwell. Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). New York: Scribner, 2003.
• Carpentier, Alejo. The kingdom of this world. Translated by Harriet de Onís. First edition 1957. London: Deutsch, 1990.
• Carter, J. Kameron. Race: A Theological Account. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Césaire, Aimé. Discourse On Colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: MR, 1972.
• Chireau, Yvonne Patricia. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
• Cone, James H. A Black Theology of Liberation. 20th anniversary ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990.
• --. Black Theology and Black Power. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997.
• --. God of the Oppressed. Rev. ed. First published 1975. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.
• --. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2011.
• Cressler, Matthew J.Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration. New York: NYU Press, 2017.
• Cullen, Countee. My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Gerald Lyn Early. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
• Davis, Bridgett M. Into the Go-Slow. New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2014.
• Davis, Cyprian. The History of Black Catholics in the United States. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
• Davis, Darren W. Perseverance in the Parish?: Religious Attitudes From a Black Catholic Perspective. Cambridge,: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Dixie, Quinton Hosford and Juan Williams. This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience. New York: William Morrow, 2003. (ordered for library)
• Douglas, Kelly Brown. The Black Christ. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1994.
• --. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999.
• --. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2015.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. First edition A.C. McClung, 1903. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
• Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.
• Emezi, Akwaeke. Pet. First edition. New York: Make Me a World, 2019.
• Erskine, Noel Leo. Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Ewing, Eve L., Kevin Libranda, Luciano Vecchio, Matt Milla, and Clayton Cowles. Ironheart. New York, NY: Marvel Worldwide, 2019.
• --. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings On Chicago's South Side. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• --. 1919. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2019.
• Felder, Cain Hope. Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991.
• Gafney, Wilda. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.
• Garcia, Laleña. "What We Believe: A Black Lives Matter Principles Coloring Book." Illustrated by Caryn Davidson. Distributed by www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com.
• Gay, Ross. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
• Gay, Roxane. Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body. New York, NY: Harper, 2017.
• Gilbert, Kenyatta R. The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011.
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
• Girmay, Aracelis. Kingdom Animalia: Poems. Rochester, NY: Boa Editions, 2011.
• -- The Black Maria. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions Ltd., 2016.
• Gomes, Peter J. The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart. New York: W. Morrow, 1996.
• -- The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's so Good About the Good News? New York, NY: HarperLuxe, 2007.
• Greenlee, Sam. The Spook Who Sat By the Door: A Novel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
• Griffin, Horace L. Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2006.
• Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New York: New Press, 1995.
• Haas, Jeffrey. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2010.
• Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Mary Elliott, Jazmine Hughes, and Jake Silverstein. 2019. The 1619 project: New York Times magazine, August 18, 2019.
• Hayes, Terrance. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 2018.
• Hendricks, Obery M. The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of the Teachings of Jesus and How They Have Been Corrupted. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
• Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous discontent : the women's movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
• Holiday, Harmony. Negro League Baseball. Albany; Minneapolis: Fence Books, 2011.
• --. Go Find Your Father: a Famous Blues. Berkeley: Ricochet Editions, 2014.
• --. Hollywood Forever. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2017.
• Holt, Thomas Cleveland. Children of Fire: A History of African Americans. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010.
• Hopkins, D. N. Black theology: Essays on gender perspectives. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2017.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. First edition 1965. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
• Jemisin, N. K. The Broken Kingdoms: Book Two of the Inheritance Trilogy. New York: Orbit, 2010.
• --. The Fifth Season. New York, NY: Orbit, 2015.
• Jesus, Carolina Maria de, and David St. Clair. Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus. New York: New American Library, 2003.
• Johnson, Cedric C. Race, Religion, and Resilience in the Neoliberal Age. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Johnson, K. J. One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the quest for interracial justice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Jones, William Ronald. Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1973.
• King, Martin Luther, Jr. Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
• --. Why We Can't Wait. New York: New American Library, 1964.
• --. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
• --. Letter From Birmingham Jail. Stamford, CT Overbrook Press, 1968.
• Lewis, John, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March: Book 1. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2013.
• --. March: Book 2. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2015.
• --. March: Book 3. Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2016.
• Lipsitz, G. The possessive investment in whiteness: How white people profit from identity politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
• --. How racism takes place. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
• Lorde, Audre. Sister outsider: essays and speeches. Forward by Cheryl Clarke. Berkeley, CA : Crossing Press, 2007.
• Madhubuti, Haki R. Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-first Century America : Confronting White Nationalism, Supremacy, Privilege, Plutocracy and Oligarchy : A Poet's Representation and Challenge. Chicago: Third World Press Foundation, 2016.
• Mandela, Nelson. Conversations With Myself. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
• Meredith, Martin. The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavour. New York: PublicAffairs, 2014.
• Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977.
• Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming the American Dream. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.
• Okorafor, Nnedi. Who Fears Death. New York: Daw Books, 2010.
• Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War On Poverty. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.
• Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Produced by Luther Pollard. New York, NY: Kino Classics, 2016.
• Paris, Peter J. The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
• Petry, Ann. The Street. Cleveland; New York: World., 1947.
• Proctor, S. D. The substance of things hoped for: A memoir of African-American faith. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
• Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
• --. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2014.
• --. Incorrect Merciful Impulses. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
• Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009.
• Sealey, Nicole. Ordinary Beast: Poems. New York, NY: Ecco, 2017.
• Sernett, Milton, editor, et al. African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness. 2nd ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
• Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. London: Zed Books, 2014.
• Simmons, Martha J., and Frank A. Thomas. Preaching With Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
• Smith, Mitzi J. I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2015.
• Taylor, Gardner C. How Shall They Preach? Elgin: Progressive Baptist, 1977.
• Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2016.
• Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2017.
• Thurman, Howard. The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death. New York: Harper, 1947.
• --. Jesus and the Disinherited. Boston, Originally published: New York, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949. MA: Beacon Press, 1996.
• --. Jesus and the Disinherited. Originally published: New York, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996.
• --. The Search for Common Ground: An Inquiry Into the Basis of Man's Experience of Community. First edition 1975. Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1986.
• Travis, Dempsey J. An Autobiography of Black Jazz. Chicago, Ill.: Urban Research Institute, 1983.
• Tutu, Desmond. God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations. Edited by John Allen. New York: HarperOne, 2011.
• Wade-Gayles, Gloria, editor. My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
• Ward, Jesmyn. Men We Reaped: A Memoir. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
• Warnock, Raphael G. The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness. New York: NYU Press, 2014.
• Warren, Kenneth W. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
• --. What Was African American Literature? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
• Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1925.
• West, Cornel. Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982.
• --. The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.
• --. Race Matters. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
• Whitehead, Colson. John Henry Days: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
• Wiley, Kehinde, M. Cynthia Oliver, and Mike Rogge. Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage : Haiti = Sèn Mondyal La Ayiti. Culver City, California: Roberts & Tilton, 2015.
• Wilkerson, Isabel.The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.
• --. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.
• Williams, Delores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
• Williams, Spencer, Oscar Micheaux, Richard C. Kahn, Lucius Brooks, Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Herb Jeffries, and Alpha Home Entertainment. Harlem Rides the Range. Narberth, PA: Alpha Home Entertainment, 2006.
• Winters, Ben H. Underground Airlines.New York, NY: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
• Wisner, Geoff. A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2007.
• Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Mis-education of the Negro. Washington, D.C.: The Associated publishers, inc, 1933.
• Wright, Richard. Native Son. First edition 1940. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

Suggested books that are currently on order for the Library:

• Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman
• With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman by Howard Thurman
• For the Inward Journey by Howard Thurman
• The Coming by Daniel Black
• Good News: Sermons of Hope for Today’s Families by Jeremiah Wright
• The Gospel of Inclusion by Bishop Carlton Pearson
• We Have this Ministry by Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Gardner C. Taylor