Staff Recommendations

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Paperback – February 1, 2022
by Tiya Miles (Author)

Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table Hardcover – February 7, 2023 by Toya Boudy

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Hardcover – October 23, 2018
by n/a The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Author), Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking Hardcover - November 5, 2019 by Toni Tipton-Martin (Author) & Jerrelle Guy (Photographer)

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
by Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Author)

Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
by Mona Lisa Saloy (Author)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Paperback – February 9, 2016
by Angela Y. Davis (Author), Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface)

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Hardcover -
November 16, 2021
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson (Authors) and Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator)

Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) Hardcover
By Lesa Cline-Ransome (author) James E. Ransome (Illustrator) – November 7, 2017

The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)