Black History Month, 2021
San Diego City College Library
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Contact us: citylib@sdccd.edu
Here is a sampling of our newer acquisitions of films and books. For this and other topic-based lists of resources see library.sdcity.edu/resourcelists
Checkout our newly acquired databases as well as tried and true favorites on the A-Z database page accessible via our website: library.sdcity.edu. You will also find a list of resources and services offered during campus closure including curb-side pick-up for circulating print books.
Below: 1. Films 2. e-Books 3. Print Books (See our website for curb-side pick-up options.)
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1.FILMS
Find films accessible from home in 4 of our databases: 1) Films on Demand 2) Swank 3) Kanopy 4) and National Theatre Collection (filmed plays). Additional clips available in several of our other databases including the New York Times.
National Theatre Collection (Filmed Plays: New as of January 2021! check it out!!)
Small Island: A story which journeys from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948.”
Othello: “Acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of envy and brutal revenge.”
Films on Demand
Signing Black in America: “This is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities.” 2021
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
examines the impact these institutions have had on American history, culture, and national identity. 2017
Those Winter Days: “”Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander, Angela Duckworth, and a chorus of working fathers and sons…Hayden was black but most students read the poem without that context. He grew up in a poor black neighborhood in Detroit during the Great Depression. 2017
Through a lens darkly: The first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history to discover images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost. From slavery to the present, these extraordinary images unveil a world confronting the difficult edges of citizenship and what it means to be human. 2015
The Sound of New York: Greg Osby: “Greg Osby is an American saxophonist known for his very personal playing style and compositions. Explore Greg Osby’s musical world in New York City.” 2018
African-American Heroes (a segment from the film American Rebels) “In 1969, Falcon debuted as Marvel’s first African-American superhero and Captain America’s partner. His creation allowed Marvel to write and comment about the Civil Rights Movement in America.” Other segments include “Black Panther” and “Growing Diversity in Comics”. 2017
TEDTalks: Kimberlé Crenshaw: The Urgency of Intersectionality
“Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.” 2016
Boss: The Black Experience in Business: “From award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson comes a film that educates, informs, and examines more than 150 years of African-American men and women who have embodied the qualities that are the heart of the American entrepreneurial spirit.” 2019
The Tuskegee Airmen “tells the dramatic, true story of the first African-American fighter pilots, the Red Tails.” 2015
America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump: segments include but are not limited to Trayvon Martin; Birther Movement; Ferguson shooting; Congressional Divide; Emanuel AME Church shooting. 2020
Admitting African American Women (segment from the film The Vote.) Ida Wells-Barnett formed the Alpha Suffrage Club. She decided to march in the parade and advocated for racial justice. Paul concluded that African Americans would not be excluded, but also not encouraged. 2020
African-American Mosque in Memphis (segment from the film America’s First Muslims) “Colima explains the history of the Nation of Islam; trace the history of African American‘s in the faith from the days of Muhammad. Imam Mahaj reflects on sex and violence”.
First African American Astronaut Candidate (segment in the film A Place beyond the sky) “Ed Dwight discusses his invitation to test pilot school, en-route to astronaut training, NASA’s southern support, and his successful completion of the program.”
2. E-BOOKS
Book
Africa in Black liberation activism : Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
Adeleke, Tunde, author.
2017
Available Online
Book
African American Soldiers in the Civil War
2017
Available Online
Book
American politics and the African American quest for universal freedom
Walton, Hanes, Jr., 1941-2013, author. ; Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1947- author.; Wallace, Sherri L., author.
2017
Eight edition.
Available Online
Conference Proceeding
An American crisis : the growing absence of black men in medicine and science : proceedings of a joint workshop
Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science: an American Crisis (Workshop) (2017 : Washington, D.C.) ; Laurencin, Cato T. rapporteur; National Academies Press (U.S.)
2018
Available Online
Book
Black Indian : a memoir
Buchanan, Shonda.
2019
Available Online
Book
BLACK POWER : RADICAL POLITICS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY.
OGBAR, JEFFREY O.G
2019
REV. ED.
Available Online
Book
Farming while Black : Soul Fire Farm’s practical guide to liberation on the land
Penniman, Leah, author. ; Washington, Karen, writer of foreword.
2018
Available Online
Book
Fat girls in black bodies : creating communities of our own
Cox, Joy, author.
2020
Available Online
Book
Force and freedom : black abolitionists and the politics of violence
Jackson, Kellie Carter, author.
2019
Available Online
Book
Great events from history : African American history
Mack-Shelton, Kibibi, editor.
2017
Available Online
Book
How we fight for our lives : a memoir
Jones, Saeed, author.
2019
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Available Online
Book
How we get free : black feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, editor, writer of introduction.; Smith, Barbara, 1946- contributor.; Smith, Beverly, contributor.; Frazier, Demita, contributor.; Garza, Alicia, 1981- contributor.; Ransby, Barbara, contributor.
2017
Available Online
Book
Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
Levingston, Steven, author.
2017
Available Online
Book
Langston’s Salvation : American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
Best, Wallace D., author.
2017
Available Online
Book
Learning legacies : archive to action through women’s cross-cultural teaching
Robbins, Sarah, author.
2017
Available Online
Book
Let it bang : a young black man’s reluctant odyssey into guns
Young, R. J. (Writer), author.
2018
Available Online
Book
Race Capital? : Harlem as Setting and Symbol
Fearnley, Andrew M., editor.
2019
Available Online
Book
Race for profit : how banks and the real estate industry undermined Black homeownership
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, author.
2019
Available Online
Book
Race news : black journalists and the fight for racial justice in the twentieth century
Carroll, Fred, 1971- author.
2017
Available Online
Book
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience
2019
Available Online
Book
Tales of two Americas : stories of inequality in a divided nation
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
2017
Available Online
Book
The Black family : strengths, self-help, and positive change
Logan, Sadye Louise, 1943- editor.
2018
Second edition.
Available Online
Book
The historian’s narrative of Frederick Douglass : reading Douglass’s autobiography as social and cultural history
Felgar, Robert.; Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.; Felgar, Robert, editor.
2017
Available Online
Book
The values of independent hip-hop in the post-golden era : hip-hop’s rebels
Vito, Christopher author ; Springer Nature
2019
Open Access
Available Online
Book
This worldwide struggle : religion and the international routes of the Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1959
Azaransky, Sarah, author.
2017
Available Online
Book
Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology
Edim, Glory, 1982- editor.
2018
First edition.
Available Online
3. Print Books
See library.sdcity.edu for curbside pick-up option
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Book
100 amazing facts about the Negro
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. author ; Rogers, J. A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966.
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (CB235 .G39 2017) and other locations
Book
A history of the African American novel
Babb, Valerie Melissa. author.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (PS374.N4 B24 2017)
Book
Atlantic bonds : a nineteenth-century odyssey from America to Africa
Lindsay, Lisa A. author.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (CT2528.V38 L56 2017)
Book
Burton, Susan (Founder of A New way of life (Organization)) ; Lynn, Cari. author
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HV9468.B87 A3 2017) and other locations
Book
Behnken, Brian D. editor.; Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- editor.; Wendt, Simon. editor.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.89 .I56 B55 2017)
Hunter, Marcus Anthony author. ; Robinson, Zandria F. author.
2018
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185 .H86 2018) and other locations
Taylor, Clarence author.
2019
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HV8148.N5 T39 2019)
Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan) author.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.97.A86 K33 2017)
Demas, Lane author.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (GV981 .D45 2017)
Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly author
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HQ281 .M435 2017) and other locations
Book
Integrating the US military : Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II
Bristol, Douglas Walter, 1965- editor of compilation.; Stur, Heather Marie, 1975- editor of compilation.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (UB417 .I58 2017)
Book
It was all a dream : a new generation confronts the broken promise to Black America
Allen, Reniqua author.
2019
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.8 .A56 2019)
Book
Law enforcement in the age of black lives matter : policing black and brown bodies
Weissinger, Sandra Ellen. editor; Mack, Dwayne, 1968- editor
2018
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HV9950 .L39 2018) and other locations
Book
Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America
Forman, James, 1967- author
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HV9950 .F655 2017) and other locations
Book
My life, my love, my legacy
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006. author. ; Reynolds, Barbara A. author
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.97.K47 A3 2017) and other locations
Book
Policing the Black man : arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment
Davis, Angela J., 1956- editor
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (HV9950 .P64 2017) and other locations
Book
Post traumatic slave syndrome : America’s legacy of enduring injury and healing
Leary, Joy DeGruy, author. ; Robinson, Randall, 1941- author of foreword.
2017
Newly revised and updated edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (RC451.5.N4 L43 2017)
Book
Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
Garrow, David J., 1953- author.
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E908 .G36 2017) and other locations
Book
Smoketown : the untold story of the other great Black Renaissance
Whitaker, Mark author.
2018
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (F159.P69 N487 2018)
Book
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. author.
2019
Available at San Diego Miramar College New Books Display (E185.61 .G253 2019) and other locations
Book
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America
Dyson, Michael Eric. author.
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.61 .D997 2017)
Book
The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 : Black Agency and People of Good Will
Brooker, Russell Gott, 1949-2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.61 .B7964 2017)
Book
The annotated African American folktales
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. editor; Tatar, Maria, 1945- editor
2018
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (GR111.A47 A55 2018) and other locations
Book
The Black lives matter movement
Parks, Peggy J., 1951- author.
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.615 .P337 2017) and other locations
Book
The great stain : witnessing American slavery
Rae, Noel (Noel Martin Douglas), author.
2018
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E441 .R278 2018) and other locations
Book
The lost education of Horace Tate : uncovering the hidden heroes who fought for justice in schools
Walker, Vanessa Siddle author.
2018
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (LC2802.S9 W35 2018)
Book
The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea
Lebron, Christopher J. author
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.615 .L393 2017) and other locations
Book
The origin of others
Morrison, Toni author ; Coates, Ta-Nehisi. author of foreward
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (PS3563.O8749 O76 2017) and other locations
Book
The original Black elite : Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era
Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. author.
2017
First edition.
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.97.M93 T39 2017)
Book
The origins of cool in postwar America
Dinerstein, Joel, 1958- author
2017
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E169.12 .D566 2017) and other locations
Book
Total black empowerment : a guide to critical thinking in the age of Trump
Cordero, Johnnie author
2017
Revised edition
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.625 .C67 2017)
Book
What the hell do you have to lose? : Trump’s war on civil rights
Williams, Juan author
2018
First edition
Available at San Diego City College City: Circulating Collection (E185.615 .W49157 2018) and other locations