WMU Research Guides: Black History Month: Print and Electronic Books

Print and Electronic Books

The University Libraries has nearly 1,000 titles available through Library Search. Or check out a few of these specific titles:

Black History by Mike Henry
Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks E185 .H495 2013
Publication Date: 2012
A Companion to African American History by Alton Hornsby (Editor)
Call Number: ebook and print Waldo Library General Stacks E185 .C66 2005
Publication Date: 2008
Defining Moments in Black History by Dick Gregory
Call Number: Waldo Library Popular Reading Area E185 .G759 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks E185 .F625 2021
Publication Date: 2021

After Mecca: women poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke
Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks PS310.N4 C48 2005
Publication Date: 2004
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: ebook only
Publication Date: 2020
Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora by Lean'tin Bracks
Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks PS374.N4 B64 1997
Publication Date: 1997

Blacktino Queer Performance by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor); Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Editor)
Call Number: Waldo Library General Stacks PN1590.G39 B533 2016
Publication Date: 2016
No Tea, No Shade by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook only
Publication Date: 2016
Not Straight, Not White by Kevin Mumford
Call Number: ebook and print Waldo Library General Stacks HQ76.27.A37 M86 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The Queer Limit of Black Memory by Matt Richardson
Call Number: ebook and print Waldo Library General Stacks PN56.L45 R53 2013
Publication Date: 2013

This is a sample of scholarship by WMU Authors across all disciplines brought together for Black History Month.

African Americans in Michigan by Lewis Walker; Benjamin C. Wilson; Linwood H. Cousins
Call Number: Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor E185.93.M5 W35 2001 and Zhang Legacy Collections Center Reading Room, Parks Research Collection E185.93.M5 W35 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Black Eden by Benjamin C. Wilson; Lewis Walker
Call Number: ebook and print Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor F574.I35 W35 2002
Publication Date: 2002
The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins; William L. Andrews (Editor); Mitch Kachun (Editor)
Call Number: Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor PS1359.C563 C65 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Driven by the Movement: activists of the Black power era by JoNina M. Abron-Ervin
Call Number: Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor E185.615 .A235 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free by Alexander Jefferson; Lewis H. Carlson (As told to)
Call Number: ebook and print Waldo Library WMU Authors Collection, First Floor D805.G3 J43 2005
Publication Date: 2005