Black History Month

Black History Month 2023

A selection of books which featured in our displays celebrating Black History Month in Hartland House and the Tim Gardam Building. This year the theme is Celebrating our Sisters, which emphasises the vital role black women have played in shaping history, inspiring change, and building communities. 

Shelfmarks are included if you want to find and borrow one, or click on a book cover to view its record on SOLO and request it via Click & Collect (sign in with Single Sign On).

Aint I a Woman by Bell Hooks
303.42 HOO:Ain
Demonic Grounds : Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick
303.42 McK:Dem
Women in African Colonial Histories edited by Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi
303.51 ALLM:Wom
Black Feminist Thought : Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
303.51 COL:Bla
Angela Davis : an Autobiography
303.51 DAVI-A:Ang
Black Women Writers at Work edited by Claudia Tate
303.51 TAT:Bla
Three Narratives of Slavery by Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Prince
306.362 TRU:Thr
At the Dark End of the Street : Black Womwn, Rape, and Resistance - a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
352.8 McG:Att
Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahhta Taylor
363.5 KEE:Rac
709.731 RIN:Wef
Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers : Black Artists from the American South
709.731 ROY:Sou
Manifesto on Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
ANNE EVAR:Man
Virtual Displays

Book Months

Virtual displays, complementing our recent monthly displays celebrating various themes in Hartland House and the Tim Gardam Building.