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African American Studies Librarians Interest Group(AASLIG): African American Studies Books

Libguide will serve as a website for the activities and projects of the AASLIG, as well as current information in African American Studies

African American Studies Books

Anderson, Talmadge and Stewart, James. Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications. Trenton, NJ: Imprint Editions, 2007.
Asante, Moleti Kete and Karenga, Maulana, Editors. Handbook of Black Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
Asante, Moleti Kete and Mazama, Ama, Editors.  Encyclopedia of Black Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005.
BaNikongo, NIkongo. Leading Issues in African American Studies. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press,1995.
Bobo, Jacqueline, et al. The Black Studies Reader. NY: Routledge, 2004.
Bradley, Anthony, editor. Black Scholars in White Spaces: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2015.
Davidson, Jeanette R. African American Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Edozie, Rita Kiki. Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies.?, Vearsa, 2015.
Ferguson, Stephen C. Philosophy of African American Studies. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Gates, Henry Louis and Burton, Jacqueline. Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies. NY: W.W. Norton, 2008.
Gordon, Lewis R. and Gordon, Jane Anna. A Companion to African American Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States. NY: Ford Foundation, 2007.
Hall, Perry. In the Vineyard: Working in African American Studies. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee Press,1999.
Hayes, Floyd W., III. A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies. San Diego: Collegiate Press, 2000.
McDougal, Seree, III. Research Methods in Africana Studies. NY: Peter Lang, 2014.
Norment, Nathaniel, Jr. African American Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
Rooks, Noliwe M. White Money/Black Power: the Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies.  Detroit: Gale, 2000-
Warren, Nagueyatte. Grandfather of Black Studies: W.E.B. Dubois. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011.
Warren, Nagueyatte. An Intellectual Biography of W.E.B. Dubois, Initiator of Black Studies in the University. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press, 2010.