Black History Month
A selection of books by black authors from around the world, available to read in the Library
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Fiction and Wellbeing Collection
Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi
How to be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
A Blade so Black by L L McKinney
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters
Black British Culture and Society
School Experience Collection
Under the moon & over the sea: a collection of Caribbean poems
Jessica Strange
Thief!
That new dress
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Sulwe
Modern Fiction
Noughts & Crosses
Things Fall Apart
Girls at war and other stories
Americanah
Purple Hibiscus
Invisible man
Born on a Tuesday
Girl, Woman, Other
Carnival Mind: Dark Soul
Homegoing
The book of rhythms
Six Stories and an Essay
Jazz
Beloved
The bluest eye
Futureland
Grain of wheat
The famished road
The Gilded Years
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
The color purple
In love and trouble: stories of black women
The Underground Railroad
Spooks, spies, and private eyes
The Sun is also a Star
Classic Fiction
The fire next time
Another Country
Giovanni's room
Babel-17
Their eyes were watching God
Passing
Strange fruit
Art and Design
Life doesn't frighten me
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Words Are All We Have
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
Jean-Michel Basquiat: now's the time
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Different: a historical context
The Upper Room
Chris Ofili: weaving magic
Chris Ofili: Freedom One Day
The struggle for black arts in Britain: what can we consider better than freedom
Storms of the heart: an anthology of black arts & culture
Lubaina Himid: Work from Underneath
Lubaina Himid: Workshop Manual
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance
A Black Gaze: Artists changing how we see
In The Black Fantastic
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Mirror Reflecting Darkly: The Rita Keegan Archive
Te ahi kā : the fires of occupation
African Artists: From 1882 to Now
History
'Holy' Johnson, Pioneer of African Nationalism, 1836-1917
Precolonial Black Africa
The Black history of the White House
Towards colonial freedom: Africa in the struggle against world imperialism
Freedom and unity: Uhuru na Umoja ; a selection from writings and speeches, 1952-65
Freedom and development: Uhuru na maendeleo: a selection from writings and speeches, 1968-1973
The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire
Black and British: A forgotten history
Creating Black Americans: African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present
The history of Mary Prince
The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness
I was born a slave: an anthology of classic slave narratives, Vol. 1: 1772-1849
I was born a slave: an anthology of classic slave narratives, Vol. 2: 1849-1866
Literature & Criticism
Hopes and impediments: selected essays, 1965-1987
We should all be feminists
The price of the ticket: collected nonfiction, 1948-1985
Notes of a native son
The souls of Black folk
Darkwater: voices from within the veil
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston reader
Decolonising the mind: the politics of language in African literature
Extravagant strangers: a literature of belonging
Myth, literature and the African world
An introduction to West African literature
In search of our mothers' gardens: womanist prose
Memoir & Autobiography
I know why the caged bird sings
Gather together in my name
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier
Ready for revolution: the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael
The Sixteenth Round
Miles: the autobiography
My bondage and my freedom
The interesting narrative and other writings
A small place
Long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela
The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Becoming
Up from slavery
The autobiography of Malcolm X
Poetry
Salt-sweat & Tears
Black nature: four centuries of African American nature poetry
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Omeros
Collected poems, 1948-1984
Astronomy
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
Politics & Society
Slay In Your Lane
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
The New Jim Crow
Black power: the politics of liberation in America
We Were Eight Years in Power
Don't Touch My Hair
Towards the African renaissance: essays in African culture and development 1946-1960
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Mother of all myths: how society moulds and constrains mothers
The Hard Road to Renewal
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Ain't I a woman: black women and feminism
Talking back: thinking feminist,thinking black
Black looks: race and representation
Reel to real: race, sex, and class at the movies
Real Black: adventures in racial sincerity
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr
We Need To Talk About Race: Understanding the Black Experience in White Majority Churches
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Black British Culture and Society
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Taking up Space
'Race', Gender, Social Welfare
The New Age of Empire
Empire Strikes Back