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New Books: BSA Purchases

BSA Purchases

The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.

3 years, 5 months & 2 days in the life of-- / Arrested Development.

A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance / Hanif Abdurraqib.

Antiblackness / edited by Moon-Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas.

Appealing because he is appalling : Black masculinities, colonialism, and erotic racism / Tamari Kitossa, editor.

Are you experienced / the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Black enough : stories of being young & black in America / edited by Ibi Zoboi.

Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires / Shomari Wills.

Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham.

Black girls must die exhausted : a novel / Jayne Allen.

Black identity viewed from a barber's chair : nigrescence and eudaimonia / William E. Cross Jr.

Body and soul : the Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination / Alondra Nelson.

Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood / Trevor Noah.

Care free Black girls : a celebration of Black women in popular culture / Zeba Blay.

The color of hope : people of color mental health narratives / edited by Vanessa Hazzard & Iresha Picot, M.Ed ; foreward by Rasheedah Phillips, Esq.

The color purple / Alice Walker ; foreword by Kiese Laymon.

Crooklyn : a Spike Lee joint / Universal Pictures presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production in association with Child Hoods Productions ; story by Joie Susannah Lee ; screenplay by Joie Susannah Lee, Cinqué Lee and Spike Lee ; produced and directed by Spike Lee.

Edible North Carolina : a journey across a state of flavor / edited by Marcie Cohen Ferris ; foreword by Vivian Howard ; K.C. Hysmith, associate editor ; photography by Baxter Miller.

Finding me / Viola Davis.

Girl, woman, other : a novel / Bernardine Evaristo.

Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / Mikki Kendall.

How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays / Kiese Laymon.

I never loved a man the way I love you / Aretha Franklin.

Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching / Paula J. Giddings.

Invisible man, got the whole world watching : a young black man's education / Mychal Denzel Smith.

Justice rising : Robert Kennedy's America in black and white / Patricia Sullivan.

Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty / Dorothy Roberts.

Lean on me / Warner Bros. presents ; a Norman Twain production ; a John G. Avildsen film ; written by Michael Schiffer ; produced by Norman Twain ; directed by John G. Avildsen.

Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.

Malcolm X / Warner Bros. presents in association with Largo International N.V. ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Marvin Worth and Spike Lee ; screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike Lee.

Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor / Layla F. Saad.

Minority leader : how to lead from the outside and make real change / Stacey Abrams.

The miseducation of Lauryn Hill / Lauryn Hill.

Pastel blues / Nina Simone.

Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.

Portrait of a legend, 1951-1964 / Sam Cooke.

Power to the people : the world of the Black Panthers / Stephen Shames & Bobby Seale.

Rap and hip hop culture / Fernando Orejuela.

Represented : the Black imagemakers who reimagined African American citizenship / Brenna Wynn Greer.

Seeing like an activist : civil disobedience and the civil rights movement / Erin R. Pineda.

Self-care for Black women : 150 ways to radically accept & prioritize your mind, body, & soul / Oludara Adeeyo.

She memes well / Quinta Brunson.

Such a fun age : a novel / Kiley Reid.

Sweet tea : a play / E. Patrick Johnson ; foreword by Jane M Saks.

Traveling Black : a story of race and resistance / Mia Bay.

The ugly cry : a memoir / Danielle Henderson.

Unforgettable / Nat King Cole.

Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America / Keisha N. Blain.

What's going on / Marvin Gaye ; orchestra conducted and arranged by David Van DePitte.

White feminism : from the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind / Koa Beck.

White tears brown scars : how white feminism betrays women of colour / Ruby Hamad.

Why Bushwick Bill matters / Charles L. Hughes.

Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race / Reni Eddo-Lodge.

You'll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism / Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar.