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:

• American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
  by Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, 2024
• Billy Waters Is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain
  by Mary L. Shannon, 2024
• Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
  by Odie Henderson, 2024
• Black Girl IRL: Life Between the Mess and the Magic
  by Gail Hamilton Azodo, 2024
• Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age
  by Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, 2024
• Black Schoolgirls in Space: Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain
  by Esther O. Ohito and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna, 2024
• Black Urban History at the Crossroads: Race and Place in the American City
  by Leslie M. Harris et al, 2024
• The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America: Second Edition
  by Kevern Verney, 2024
• I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
  by Gerald Horne and Tionne Alliyah Parris, 2024
• Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You've Been Told about Black Women
  by Rondrea Mathis et al., 2024
• A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin
  by Susanna Ashton, 2024
• Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America
  by Joel Edward Goza and William J., II Barber, 2024
• The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
  by Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, 2024
• Room Swept Home (poetry)
  by Remica Bingham-Risher, 2024
• Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data
  editor Srimoyee Mitra, 2024
• The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement
  by Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar, 2024
• Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles
  by Charlene Marie Muhammad et al., 2024

More 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