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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: Black History Month 2025
Black History Month - explore our collection!
In October 2025 we are celebrating Black History Month. Join us as we highlight books from our collection on Black art, history, literature and political and social discourses on the Black experience.
Explore our Spotlight display bookshelves in the James Joyce Library, and find out more about a selection of some of the books (with links to our catalogue) here.
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This primary source collection is published by Alexander Street Press and is described as "a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history.
In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America. Go to database
Selected titles
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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by); The New The New York Times Magazine (Created by); Caitlin Roper (Editor); Ilena Silverman (Editor); Jake Silverstein (Editor)
Call Number: 973 HANISBN: 9780593230572Publication Date: 2021-11-16 -
A Century of Segregation by Leland Ware
Call Number: 305.800973 WARISBN: 9781498564717Publication Date: 2020-08-13 -
Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition by Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic; Angela Harris (Foreword by)
Call Number: 342.730873 DELISBN: 9781479818259Publication Date: 2023-03-14 -
Scattered and Fugitive Things by Laura Helton
Call Number: 026.3231196 HELISBN: 9780231212755Publication Date: 2024-04-16 -
The 20th Century Civil Rights Movement by Mark Christian
Call Number: 323.1196073 CHRISBN: 9781524997472Publication Date: 2021-01-30 -
Before the Mayflower: a history of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett
Call Number: 973.0496073 BENISBN: 9783584749978Publication Date: 2020 -
African Founders by David Hackett Fischer
Call Number: 973.0496073 FISISBN: 9781982145095Publication Date: 2022-05-31 -
Freedom Time: Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world by Gary Wilder
Call Number: 365.344 WILISBN: 9780822358398Publication Date: 2015-01-19
Irish Focus
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Equity in the Workplace: stories of black Irish women in Ireland by Dr. Ebun Joseph, ed.
Call Number: 331.4 JOSISBN: 9781913275976Publication Date: 2024 -
Equity in the Workplace: stories of Black Irish women in academia and the teaching profession by Dr. Ebun Joseph
Call Number: 378.0082 JOSISBN: 9781068403804Publication Date: 2025 -
Diverse Republic by Bryan Fanning
Call Number: 325.415 FANISBN: 9781910820711Publication Date: 2021-11-19 -
Black Abolitionists in Ireland by Christine Kinealy
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9780429275401Publication Date: 2020-04-28
Auto/Biography/ Essays
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Walk with Me: a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kate Clifford Larson
Call Number: 973.0496073 HAM/LISBN: 9780190096847Publication Date: 2021-09-01 -
King: the life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig
Call Number: 323.11 KIN/EISBN: 9781471181030Publication Date: 2023 -
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: 813 HURISBN: 9780060854089Publication Date: 2006-01-03 -
No Easy Walk to Freedom: Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by Nelson Mandela
Call Number: 320.968 MANISBN: 9780141439303Publication Date: 2002 -
On James Baldwin by Colm Toibin
Call Number: 813 BAL/TISBN: 9781684582471Publication Date: 2024-08-16 -
Malcolm X: the great photographs by Thulani Davis; Howard Chapnick (Editor)
Call Number: 323.11 X/DISBN: 9781556703171Publication Date: 1993-02-01 -
Contextualizing Angela Davis by Joy James
Call Number: 322.42092 DAV/JISBN: 9781350368637Publication Date: 2024-01-25 -
NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Heather E. Schwartz
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781512457056Publication Date: 2017-08-01 -
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Call Number: 973.932092 OBAISBN: 9780241491515Publication Date: 2020
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eBooks
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An Introduction to Black Studies by Eric R. Jackson
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9780813196930Publication Date: 2023-01-31 -
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle by Charles Musser (Editor); Jane Marie Gaines (Editor); Pearl Bowser (Editor)
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9780253021557Publication Date: 2016-03-28 -
Black Britain and Nelson Mandela by Elizabeth Williams
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781350340794Publication Date: 2024 -
The Harlem Renaissance by Tamra B. Orr
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781534564220Publication Date: 2018-07-30 -
Lest We Forget: the passage from Africa into the twenty-first century by Velma Maia Thomas
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9780760363836Publication Date: 2019-01-15 -
Black British Women's Writing in the 1970s and Beyond : Away from Home by Camille S. Alexander, ed.
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781527552753Publication Date: 2024 -
Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism by Reiland Rabaka (Editor)
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9780429020193Publication Date: 2020-04-30 -
The Civil Rights Movement by John O'Mara
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781538248706Publication Date: 2019-12-30
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