Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of Between the World and Me (winner of the National Book Award), talked about books he recommended reading at a public event in 2015 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library).

Many of the books he mentioned are available here at the Lloyd Sealy Library, and all are available through CUNY libraries. They are listed here with their call numbers and/or links to their pages in OneSearch.

• Collected Essays by James Baldwin (in particular, "The Fire Next Time")
  • Stacks PS 3552 .A45 A16 1998 (OneSearch record)
• The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own by David Carr
  • Stacks HV5805 .C356 A3 2008 (OneSearch record)
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
  • Stacks E441 .B337 2014 (OneSearch record)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War by James McPherson
  • Stacks E470 .M16 1989 (OneSearch record)
  • Available as an ebook
• Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 by Arnold R. Hirsch
  • Stacks HD 7288.72 .U52 C454 1983 (OneSearch record)
• Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter
  • Available at York College, Baruch College, and 9 other CUNY libraries (OneSearch record)
• "Confederate States of America — Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union"
  • Freely available online
• Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination That Changed America by Wil Haygood
  • Available at Hunter College, Baruch College, and 8 other CUNY libraries (OneSearch record)
• American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan
  • Available at Queens College and other CUNY libraries (OneSearch record)
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
  • Available at BMCC and 3 other CUNY libraries (OneSearch record)
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula Giddings
  • Stacks E185.86 .G49 1984 (OneSearch record)
• Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
  • Stacks E185.97 .W55 G53 2008 (OneSearch record)
• Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
  • Available at Medgar Evers and 5 other CUNY libraries (OneSearch record)

August 22, 2017