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100 Essential Black Books
( QBR: The Black Book Review )
The New Negro : Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance
by Alain Locke
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
The Hero And the Blues
by Albert Murray
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Roots
by Alex Haley
Call Number: E185.97 .H24 A33 | Publication Date: 1977 |
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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Call Number: PS3573.A425 C6 |
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
by Amiri Baraka
Call Number: ML3556 .J73 |
The Street: A Novel
by Ann Petry
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1946 |
The Life of Langston Hughes
by Arnold Rampersad
Call Number: PS3515.U274 Z698 & ONLINE |
A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete
by Arthur Ashe
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
Call Number: PS3562.O75 S5 |
Fences
by August Wilson
Call Number: PS3573.I45677 F4 1986 (North) | Publication Date: 1987 |
Two Thousand Seasons
by Ayi Kwei Armah
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Sally Hemings: A Novel
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Call Number: HISTORICAL FICTION CHA | Publication Date: 1979 |
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
by Bobby Seale
Call Number: E185.615 .S37 1991 |
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
Call Number: E185.97 .W4 A3 OR | Publication Date: 1901 |
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint LOuverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by C.L.R. James
Call Number: F1923 .T85 |
Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson
Call Number: LC2717 .W6 2000 |
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D
by Chancellor Williams
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Faith And The Good Thing
by Charles Johnson
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
The Conjure Stories
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes
Call Number: PS3515.I713 I3 2002 |
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Call Number: Leisure - Multicultural ACH OR PR9387.9.A3 T5 |
Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
Call Number: E185.97.B86 A3 1999 |
Race Matters
by Cornel West
Call Number: E185.615 .W43 2001 |
Spirits of the Passage
by Cornel West
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel
by David Bradley
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
by David Levering Lewis
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
David Walkers Appeal
by David Walker
Call Number: E446 .W178 |
Black Bourgeoisie
by E. Franklin Frazier
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
Call Number: E185.97 .C6 1999 |
A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines
Call Number: PS3557.A355 L47 1993 |
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
by Ernest Gaines
Call Number: PS3557.A355 A8 |
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1952 |
The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
Call Number: DT33 .F313 |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written By Himself
by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449 .D749 | Publication Date: 1845 |
Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
by George G. M. James
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by George Jackson
Call Number: HV9468 .J3 & Online |
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Womens Spirituality
by Gloria Wade-Gayles
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Annie Allen
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Call Number: PS3503.R7244 A7 1971 |
Maud Martha
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Call Number: PS3503.R7244 M3 1993 |
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
by Harold Cruse
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1967 |
Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E. Wilson
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1859 |
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America
by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen
Call Number: PS508.N3 B745 1996 |
Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurma
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
by Ivan Van Sertima
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Black Women
by Iyanla Vanzant
Call Number: E185.86 .V365 2008 | Publication Date: 1988 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
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Challenged as required reading in the Hudson Falls, NY schools (1994) because the book has recurring themes of rape, masturbation, violence, and degrading treatment of women. (ALA.org) See Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds for more information.
Call Number: PS3552.A45 G6 1981 |
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Call Number: E185.61 .B1954 | Publication Date: 1963 |
A Black Theology of Liberation
by James H. Cone
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1970 |
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans
by James Melvin Washington
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Cane
by Jean Toomer
Call Number: PS3539.O478 |
The Man Who Cried I Am
by John A. Williams
Call Number: PS3573.I4495 M3 |
Brothers and Keepers
by John Edgar Wideman
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Damballah (Homewood Trilogy)
by John Edgar Wideman
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
by John Hope Franklin
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1947 |
Africa Must Unite
by Kwame Nkrumah
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
Call Number: E185.615 .C32 1992 | Publication Date: 1967 |
The Ways of White Folks: Stories
by Langston Hughes
Call Number: PS3515.U274 W38 |
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1995 |
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57943 | Publication Date: 1965 |
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans: Or, Africa for the Africans
by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries | Publication Date: 1923 |
Daughters of Africa
by Margaret Busby
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children
by Marian Wright Edelman
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
I Have A Dream / Also Letter From Birmingham Jail
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z466 2002 | Publication Date: 1969 |
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
by Michele Wallace
Call Number: E185.86 .W34 | Publication Date: 1978 |
Miles: The Autobiography
by Miles Davis
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
by Nell Irvin Painter
Call Number: E185.97.T8 P35 |
The River Between
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange
Call Number: PS3569.H3324 F6 1997 |
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Call Number: PS3552.U827 K5 2003 |
The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano
Call Number: HT869 .E6 A3 2013 | Publication Date: 1789 |
The Lyrics Of Lowly Life
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Praisesong For The Widow
by Paule Marshall
Call Number: PS3563.A7223 P7 1983 |
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5 1994 | Publication Date: 1952 |
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 Z9 | Publication Date: 1945 |
Native Son
by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N25 |
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith
by Samuel D. Proctor
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Gods Bits of Wood
by Sembene Ousmane
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
We a BaddDDD People
by Sonia Sanchez
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
Call Number: F548.9 .N4 D73 1993 | Publication Date: 1945 |
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
by Stanley Crouch
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
Call Number: Leisure Multicultural MCM OR PS3563.C3868 W35 |
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
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"Beloved has been challenged in school districts because of the violence that permeates the novel." See Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds for more details.
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 |
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 S66 1995 |
Black Reconstruction In America, 1860-1880
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Call Number: E668 .D83 |
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Call Number: E185.5 .D817 2003 & Online | Publication Date: 1903 |
Blacker The Berry
by Wallace Thurman
Unavailable at GCC: Availability at Other Libraries |
Clotel: Or, The Presidents Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
by William Wells Brown
Call Number: PS1139 .B9 A6 2014 | Publication Date: 1853 |