To celebrate Black History Month, the Leddy Library is sharing The Left Bank Books` Black Lives Matter Reading List. The Left Bank Books bookstore is located in St. Louis, Missouri.
This is a community curated list of books, poems, articles and blog posts that explore race, not only in St. Louis, but America as a whole. By no means a full comprehensive list, here are a few to get you started on the trail of understanding what's happening.
You can find the full list as a pdf following this link and you can find 50 of the works on the list that can be found in the Leddy Library Collection below:
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Freedom on the menu : the Greensboro sit-ins (View details) Carole Boston Weatherford 1956- Jerome Lagarrigue New York : Puffin Books Availability and location:
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Wahneema H Lubiano New York : Vintage Books Availability and location:
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Fire next time. (View details) James Baldwin 1924-1987. New York : Dial Press Availability and location:
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Losing legitimacy : street crime and the decline of social institutions in America (View details) Gary D. LaFree Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press Availability and location:
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Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination (View details) Toni. Morrison Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press Availability and location:
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Arbitrary Justice The Power of the American Prosecutor (View details) Angela J. Davis Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA
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Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city (View details) Colin Gordon (Colin E.) Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press Availability and location:
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Men we reaped : a memoir (View details) Jesmyn. Ward Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, CengageLearning Availability and location:
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Stuck rubber baby (View details) Howard. Cruse Tony Kushner New York, N.Y. : Paradox Press Availability and location:
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Uprooting racism : how white people can work for racial justice (View details) Paul. Kivel Philadelphia, PA : New Society Publishers Availability and location:
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A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School (View details) Carlotta Walls. LaNier Lisa Frazier Page New York : One World Trade Paperbacks Availability and location:
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Buried in the bitter waters : the hidden history of racial cleansing in America (View details) Elliot. Jaspin New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus Running distributor Availability and location:
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Bruce Watson 1953- New York : Penguin Group USA Availability and location:
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One crazy summer (View details) Rita Williams-Garcia author. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Availability and location:
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The Freedom summer murders (View details) Don Mitchell 1957- New York : Scholastic Press Availability and location:
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The lynching of Cleo Wright (View details) Dominic J. Capeci Lexington : University Press of Kentucky Availability and location:
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David L. Chappell New York : Random House Availability and location:
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The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America (View details) James T. Patterson New York : Basic Books Availability and location:
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Edmund David. Cronon Madison : University of Wisconsin Press Availability and location:
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The news : a user's manual (View details) Alain De Botton author. London : Hamish Hamilton Availability and location:
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The meaning of freedom (View details) Angela Y. Davis (Angela Yvonne), 1944- author. Robin D. G. Kelley writer of foreword. San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books Availability and location:
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Bruce L. Mouser Henry Louis Gates Jr, author of foreword. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press Availability and location:
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All eyes are upon us : race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn (View details) Jason. Sokol New York : Basic Books Availability and location:
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Race riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (View details) William M. Tuttle 1937- New York, Atheneum Availability and location:
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Uncelebrated narratives from Black history (View details) Joel Christian. Gill Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing Availability and location:
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Sundown towns : a hidden dimension of American racism (View details) James W. Loewen New York : Simon & Schuster Availability and location:
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All about skin : short fiction by women of color (View details) Jina Ortiz editor.; Rochelle Spencer (Writer), editor. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press Availability and location:
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The beautiful struggle : a father, two sons and an unlikely road to manhood (View details) Ta-Nehisi. Coates New York : Spiegel & Grau Availability and location:
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White like me : reflections on race from a privileged son : the remix (View details) Tim J. Wise Berkeley, Calif. : Soft Skull Press Availability and location:
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The Burgess boys : a novel (View details) Elizabeth. Strout New York : Random House Availability and location:
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The Central Park five (View details) Ken Burns 1953- director, screenwriter, producer.; Sarah Burns 1982- director, screenwriter, producer.; David McMahon (Producer, screenwriter), 1976-, director, screenwriter, producer.; Antron McCray interviewee (expression); Raymond Santana interviewee (expression); Kevin Richardson interviewee (expression); Kharey Wise interviewee (expression); Yusef Salaam interviewee (expression); Florentine Films.; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); PBS Distribution (Firm) United States : PBS Distribution Availability and location:
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A taste of honey : stories (View details) Jabari Asim 1962- New York : Broadway Books Availability and location:
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John Lewis 1940 February 21- author. Andrew Aydin author.; Nate Powell artist. Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions Availability and location:
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Never been a time : the 1917 race riot that sparked the civil rights movement (View details) Harper Barnes 1937- New York : Walker & Co. Availability and location:
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The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap (View details) Matt. Taibbi Molly Crabapple New York : Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks Availability and location:
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Combined destinies : whites sharing grief about racism (View details) Ann Todd Jealous; Caroline T Haskell Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books Availability and location:
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Witnessing whiteness : the need to talk about race and how to do it (View details) Shelly Tochluk 1971- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Availability and location:
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Ian Haney-López author. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press Availability and location:
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Clarence. Lang Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press Availability and location:
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Richard Wright 1908-1960. New York, Harper & Row Availability and location:
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Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect (View details) Robert J. Sampson Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press Availability and location:
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John Howard Griffin 1920-1980. Boston : Houghton Miffin; Cambridge Mass. Riverside Press Availability and location:
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Harriet A. Washington New York, NY : Harlem Moon Availability and location:
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August. Wilson New York : Theatre Communications Group Availability and location:
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Ralph. Ellison New York : Random House Availability and location:
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Betsey Brown : a novel (View details) Ntozake. Shange New York : St. Martin's Press Availability and location:
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness (View details) Michelle. Alexander New York, NY : New Press ; Jackson, TN : Distributed by Perseus Distribution Availability and location:
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Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom (View details) Virginia. Hamilton Leo Dillon; Diane Dillon New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House Availability and location:
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Pedagogy of the oppressed (View details) Paulo Freire 1921-1997. New York : Continuum Availability and location:
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American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia (View details) Edmund Sears. Morgan New York : Norton Availability and location:
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