Celebrating Black History Month
The first display, located near the current periodicals section, explores a wide range of authors and literary genres, past and present. Richard Wright’s articles in The Chicago Defender, August Wilson’s drama Two Trains Running, the Collected Plays of Zora Neal Hurston, Jesmyn Ward’s National-Book-Award-winning Salvage the Bones, and Yusef Komunyakaa’s collected poems Neon Vernacular are among many prize-winning works. As Black History Month progresses, new offerings will be added each week.
The second display, near the Reference Desk, highlights new and recently-acquired books from the Library’s collections that hail from a variety of academic disciplines. Books in this display support the Global Black Studies minor and cover African American history, the Black experience, the African diaspora, the performing arts, and contemporary social justice issues. Some titles in this display include:
- The Making of Black Lives Matter (2019) by Christopher J. Lebron
- This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (2018) by Morgan Jerkins
- Reimagining Malcolm X : Street Thinker versus Homo Academicus (2016) by Seyed Javad Miri
- Jane Crow : the Life of Pauli Murray (2017) by Rosalind Rosenberg
- The Hip Hop Wars (2008) by Tricia Rose
You may check out items from both displays. Both displays will be up through the end of February.