Booklist
Talking Black: Nonfiction Picks on African American History
- Rachel
- Monday, February 03, 2020
Dive into Black History Month with these nonfiction picks on the Black Experience in America.

Black is the Body
Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Published in 2019
xiii, 217 pages ; 20 cm


Brainwashed
Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
Published in 2010
xvi, 285 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.


The Beautiful Struggle
A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Published in 2008
227 p. : map ; 22 cm.

We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
Published in 2017
xvii, 367 pages : illustration ; 25 cm


Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Published in 2016
xiv, 158 pages ; 20 cm



Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Published in 2014
1 online resource


Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Published in 2009
xvii, 357 pages ; 22 cm.

This Will Be My Undoing
Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (white) America
Published in 2018
258 pages ; 21 cm



Talking Back, Talking Black
Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Published in 2017
190 pages ; 20 cm

Air Traffic
A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
Published in 2018
x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm



Well, That Escalated Quickly
Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
Published in 2018
viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm


You Can't Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Published in 2016
xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

At Mama's Knee
Mothers and Race in Black and White
Published in 2016
viii, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm





Black Fortunes
The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Published in 2018
xv, 300 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm


The Sisters Are Alright
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Published in 2015
xiii, 147 pages ; 23 cm
