Black History Month Reading List
February is Black History Month and the Prescott College Library staff has put together a reading list to celebrate and honor the contributions of Black writers throughout history.
This is by no means intended to be a comprehensive Black History Month reading list, as there are far too many significant books and writers for one list. Instead, we simply highlight these books and encourage you to explore further.
All Prescott College Students and Faculty are patrons of the Yavapai Library Network and can request books be mailed to them using the library catalog here.
The Wretched of the Earth - Fanon, Frantz
Black Skin, White Masks - Fanon, Frantz
Their Eyes were Watching God - Hurtson, Zora Neale
Sweat - Hurtson, Zora Neale
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman - Wallace, Michele
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 - Kendi, Ibram X
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - Morrison, Toni
Parable of the Sower - Butler, Octavia E.
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements - X, Malcolm
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - Hughes, Langston
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - X, Malcolm
Black Reconstruction in America - Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt
Writings - Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave - Douglass, Frederick
Things Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua
Anthills of the Savannah - Achebe, Chinua
A Man of the People - Achebe, Chinua
No Longer at Ease - Achebe, Chinua
Invisible Man - Ellison, Ralph
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman - Wallace, Michele
We Who Are Dark: the Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity - Shelby, Tommie
Black Folktales - Lester, Julius
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann)
Our Souls to Keep: Black/White Relations in America - Henderson, George
100 Years of Negro Freedom - Bontemps, Arna
Notes of a Native Son - Baldwin, James
The Skin I'm In - Flake, Sharon G
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black inferiority - Burrell, Tom