Books for Black History Month

February is Black History month. Check out the titles below to see some of the library's most recent ebooks about Black History or visit the library during our in-person hours to see our print book display. The Library of Congress also has collections of historic documents and resources.

Visit SBCC's Umoja Center for information about related activities on campus, take a look at our Professional Development Libraries to learn more about equity in education, or choose a workshop from SBCC's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training Options. 

Recent eBooks:

• Black Hair in a White World
  by Tameka N. Ellington, 2023
• Black Cinema and Visual Culture: Art and Politics in the 21st Century
  by Artel Great and Ed Guerrero, 2023
• The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
  by Brian Williams, 2023
• Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
  by Francesca T. Royster, 2023
• Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
  by John Zheng, 2023
• Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power
  by Sampada Aranke, 2023
• Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures
  by H. Samy Alim, 2023
• The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir
  by Kristal Brent Zook, 2023
• Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership
  by Monique Moultrie, 2023
• It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies
  by Jessica Wilson, 2023
• Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle since Reconstruction
  by William H. Chafe, 2023
• Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
  by Barbara D. Savage, 2023
• Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
  by Ethel Morgan Smith, 2023
• Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  by R. J. M. Blackett, 2023
• Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
  by Ashley Brown, 2023
• Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
  by Anastasia C. Curwood, 2023
• Suddenly We
  by Evie Shockley, 2023
• They Got Daddy: One Family's Reckoning with Racism and Faith
  by Sharon Tubbs, 2023
• What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family
  by Brenda E. Stevenson, 2023

More eBooks:

• Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
  by Francesca T. Royster, 2022
• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
  by Mary-Frances Winters, 2020
• Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject
  by Mandela Gray, 2022
• The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader
  by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith, 2021
• Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
  by Psyche A. Williams-Forson, 2022
• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, 2022
• The Idea of Prison Abolition
  by Tommie Shelby, 2022
• Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
  by Alison Mariella Désir, 2022
• Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
  by Danyel Smith, 2021
• The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification
  by Anne Gray Fischer, 2022
• The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era
  by Chris Joyner, 2022
• Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
  by David P. Cline, 2022
• Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America
  by Jimmie R. Hawkins, 2022
• Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
  by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, 2022
• The Young Black Leader’s Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs: What the Giants Want You to Know
  by Aaron S. Williams, et al., 2022