Selected Works on Black History & the Black Experience

<h2><center>Selected Works on Black History & the Black Experience</center></h2>

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The following books were displayed with the physical exhibition of Black History at W&M Law. Links are to the <a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/discovery/search?vid=01COWM_INST:01COWM_WM_NEWUI">W&M Libraries catalog.</a> All books are held in print by the Wolf Law Library. Most books are also available in e-book format and may be borrowed by members of the William & Mary community.

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033159987703196">After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965</a> by Timothy J. Minchin. (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033562423203196">Are Prisons Obselete?</a> by Angela Y. Davis. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033123076903196">The Black Revolution on Campus</a> by Martha Biondi. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033125332703196">Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America</a> by David Ikard. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033161205603196">Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama</a> by Katherine Tate. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033161928903196">Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga</a> by Jane C. Beck. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033123037903196">Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King</a> by Edythe Scott Bagley. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991032948338503196">The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia</a> by Julian Maxwell Hayter. (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2017)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991012027749703196">Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-First Century</a> edited by Paul Finkleman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033160892603196">Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South</a> by Christopher S. Parker. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033172135403196">Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement</a> by Angela Y. Davis. (Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2016)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033093329003196">Heavy</a> by Kiese Laymon. (New York, NY: Scribner, 2018)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033259523903196">How to Be an Antiracist</a> by Ibram X. Kendi. (New York: One World, 2019)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991032803219403196">Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights</a> by Richard A. Rosen and Joseph Mosnier. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991018262929703196">The Magnificent Mays: A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays</a> by John Herbert Roper, Sr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991015847489703196">Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics</a> by Cedric Johnson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/oaj29m/alma991000664839703196">Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson</a> by Blair L.M. Kelley. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991032890402903196">Sister Outsider</a> by Audre Lorde. (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033571524803196">So You Want to Talk About Race</a> by Iljeoma Oluo. (New York, NY: Seal Press, Hachette Book Group, 2019)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991032896113503196">Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America</a> by Ibram X. Kendi. (New York: Nation Books, 2016)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033263420703196">Thurgood Marshall: Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union</a> by Charles L. Zelden. (New York, NY: Routledge, 2013)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033124487503196">A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement</a> by Maegan Parker Brooks. (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2014)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033261534603196">The Water Dancer</a> by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (New York: One World, 2019)

<a href="https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/1se9h7k/alma991033126090803196">Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race</a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum. (New York: Basic Books, 1997)

<center>You can <a href="https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=blackhistorywmls">download a PDF version</a> of this list, or you can view this <a href="https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/blackhistorywmls/30/">resource in the Scholarship Repository.</a></center>

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