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Books cited across the curriculum — indexed from lesson citations. Click a title to view it on Open Library, or a lesson tag to read the unit.

453

Books indexed

171

With cover art

201

With ISBN

📚 875 total book citations detected across all lessons — 453 have been processed and enriched with cover art and metadata so far.

Exchanging Our Country Marks
Exchanging Our Country Marks

Michael Gomez

1998University of North Carolina PressISBN: 0807823872
Flash of the Spirit
Flash of the Spirit

Robert Farris Thompson

1984Vintage BooksISBN: 0394723694
Slave Culture

Sterling Stuckey

2013Oxford University PressISBN: 9780199935024
The Black Church
The Black Church

Henry Louis Gates Jr

2021Penguin PressISBN: 9781984880338
'If We Must Die'

Claude McKay

1919HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 0063137895
1978

UNESCO World Heritage Listing: Lalibela

1978
1997

LSA Resolution on the Oakland 'Ebonics' Issue (1997)

2009

UNESCO Intangible Heritage Inscription

2009
2019

WHO Global Report on Skin-Lightening Products (2019)

African Archaeology

David Phillipson

2005Cambridge University PressISBN: 0511112866
Al-Bakri, Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik

Al-Bakri, Kitab al-Masalik wal-Mamalik (1068)

1068
Ancient Ghana and Mali
Ancient Ghana and Mali

Nehemia Levtzion

1973MethuenISBN: 9780841904316
Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation

Rayvon Fouché

2003The Johns Hopkins University PressISBN: 9780801882708
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina

Peter Wood

1974Knopf; [distributed by Random House]ISBN: 9781324066200
Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana

Kwame Essien

2016Michigan State University PressISBN: 1609175042
Center for Black Digital Research, updated 2025

Colored Conventions Project. 'About the Conventions.' coloredconventions.org. Penn State University

Collective Courage

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

2014Pennsylvania State University PressISBN: 9780271064260
Colored Conventions Project. 'About the Conventions.' coloredconventions.org. Penn State University, Center for Black Digital Research, updated 2025.

Colored Conventions Project. 'About the Conventions.' coloredconventions.org. Penn State University, Center for Black Digital Research, updated 2025.

D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

D.T. Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (1960, transcription)

1960
Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose

Mark Dery, Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R

1994
Douglass, Frederick. 'Men of Color, To Arms!' March 1863 — the 'brass letter U.S.' citizenship argument is reproduced verbatim by the American Battlefield Trust (battlefields.org) and the National Archives education archive.

Douglass, Frederick. 'Men of Color, To Arms!' March 1863 — the 'brass letter U.S.' citizenship argument is reproduced verbatim by the American Battlefield Trust (battlefields.org) and the National Archives education archive.

Dust Tracks on a Road

Zora Neale Hurston

1942University of Illinois PressISBN: 9798519348966
Envisioning Black Colleges
Envisioning Black Colleges

Marybeth Gasman

2007The Johns Hopkins University PressISBN: 9780801886041
Final Report

California Reparations Task Force

2023The Task Force
Final Report

Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

2001
Finding Your Roots

Henry Louis Gates Jr

2014University of North Carolina PressISBN: 1469626195
Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark

Katherine Mellen Charron

2009University of North Carolina PressISBN: 9781469604794
Ghana: The Autobiography
Ghana: The Autobiography

Kwame Nkrumah

1957Echo Point Books & MediaISBN: 9781635619133
Gregory, The Southern Diaspora
Gregory, The Southern Diaspora

James N

2005The University of North Carolina PressISBN: 0807876852
Griots and Griottes
Griots and Griottes

Thomas Hale

1998Indiana University PressISBN: 9780253334589
Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

2016HarperCollinsISBN: 9780008555375
Hip Hop America
Hip Hop America

Nelson George

1998Penguin (Non-Classics)ISBN: 9780140280227
History of Islam in Africa

Nehemia Levtzion & Randall Pouwels (eds.)

2000
IRA Reports

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

2018
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs

1861Published for the authorISBN: 9798483754596
Jan Jansen, 'The Kouroukan Fouga: A Charter with a Legendary Status'

Jan Jansen, 'The Kouroukan Fouga: A Charter with a Legendary Status' (2000)

2000
June 23, 1926

Langston Hughes. 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.' The Nation

1926
Language in the Inner City
Language in the Inner City

William Labov

1972University of Pennsylvania PressISBN: 9780812210514
Like Men of War

Noah Andre Trudeau

1998Back Bay BooksISBN: 9780762850594
Making Race: Modernism and 'Racial Art' in America
Making Race: Modernism and 'Racial Art' in America

Jacqueline Francis

2012University of Washington PressISBN: 9780295996899
Making a Place for Ourselves

Vanessa Northington Gamble

1995Ebsco PublishingISBN: 0195360060
Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon
Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon

Michael Ezra

2009Temple University PressISBN: 1592136621
On Being Serena
On Being Serena

Serena Williams

2018printed for J. Brindley; M. Sheepey; and G. KeithISBN: 9780521205542
On Property
On Property

Rinaldo Walcott

2021BiblioasisISBN: 9781771964074
Race for Profit

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

2019Tantor AudioISBN: 9781469653679
Race in American Science Fiction

Isiah Lavender III

2011Indiana University PressISBN: 9780253005137
Recollections of Seventy Years
Recollections of Seventy Years

Payne, Daniel A

1888Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday School UnionISBN: 0405018347
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers

Deborah Willis

2000Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN: 9781324091806
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Johnson, Walter

2013Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University PressISBN: 9780674975385
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Nell Irvin Painter

1996W.W. Norton & CompanyISBN: 9780393317084
Stony the Road
Stony the Road

Henry Louis Gates Jr

2019Penguin PressISBN: 0525559531
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies

Richard Dunn

1972Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina PressISBN: 0807848778
Talkin and Testifyin
Talkin and Testifyin

Geneva Smitherman

1977Wayne State University PressISBN: 0395253551
The Color of Law
The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

2017TurtlebackISBN: 9781631492853
The Cooking Gene
The Cooking Gene

Michael Twitty

2017Tantor AudioISBN: 0062379275
The Greatest: My Own Story

Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham

1975MacGibbonISBN: 0345255674195
The Interesting Narrative

Olaudah Equiano

1789IncorporatedISBN: 1727489969
The John Carlos Story
The John Carlos Story

John Carlos and Dave Zirin

2011Haymarket BooksISBN: 1608469506
The Loyal Blacks
The Loyal Blacks

Ellen Gibson Wilson

1976Capricorn BooksISBN: 9780399116834
The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath
The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath

Forbes, Robert Pierce

2007The University of North Carolina PressISBN: 0807831050
The Negro Church
The Negro Church

W.E.B. Du Bois

1903Atlanta University PressISBN: 9780759103276
The Power of African Cultures]

Toyin Falola

2003Boydell & Brewer [distributorISBN: 9781580466189
The Promised Land

Nicholas Lemann

1991MacmillanISBN: 9780517110478
The World

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

2017Pearson Prentice HallISBN: 9780134791241
Topics in West African History
Topics in West African History

Adu Boahen

1986Longman GroupISBN: 058258504X
Unbought and Unbossed
Unbought and Unbossed

Chisholm, Shirley

1970HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780395109328
Wells

Mia Bay, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B

2009