E-book titles available for online reading
E-book titles available for online reading
Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
By Cheryl Higashida
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave: Related by Herself
By Mary Prince
Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
By Sandra M Bolzenius
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham : dances in literature and cinema
By Hannah Durkin
The new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
By Alison Desir
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
By Terrion L Williamson
Shaking the tree : a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women
edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing
By Andrea Katherine Medovarski
Physical books on our shelves in Healey Library
African American women and the vote, 1837-1965
By edited by Ann D. Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas
At the dark end of the street : Black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of Black Power
By Danielle L. McGuire
Autobiography as activism:
Three Black women of the Sixties
By Margo V. Perkins
Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
By Angela Y. Davis
Crusade for justice:
The autobiography of Ida B. Wells
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Edited by Alfreda M. Duster.
Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
By Barbara Ransby
Eye on the struggle : Ethel Payne, the first lady of the Black Press
By James McGrath Morris
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy : the life of a black feminist radical
by Sherie M. Randolph
Her Dream of Dreams : The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker
By Beverly Lowry
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley : A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence
By David Waldstreicher
Sick and tired of being sick and tired : Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950
By Susan L. Smith
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By Saidiya Hartman
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