Recommended Books
The following titles are a selection of recommended books on race, history, social justice, and the civil rights movement. The University bookstore will carry these and other titles throughout January.
2007 Titles
Anatomy of Racial Inequality
By Glenn Loury,
Black
By Kathleen Lesko, Valerie Babb, and Carroll Gibbs ,
Middle Passage
By Charles Johnson, Simon & Schuster, ISBN# 0684855887
Open Wide the Freedom Gates
By Dorothy Height
The New Urban Leaders
By Joyce Ladner
Parting the Waters: in the King years 1954-1963
By
Reporting Civil Rights: Volume I and II
A compilation of journalists' Reports from the period published by the Library of America
Selected African American Writing from 1760-1910
Edited by Arthur Davis, J. Sauders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce
The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
By William Bowen and Derek Bok, Princeton University Press, ISBN # 0691050198
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
By John Lewis
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century
Ira Katznelson, Norton, W. W. & Company Inc., ISBN# 0393052133
Al on American
By Al Sharpton, Dafina Books, ISBN# 0758203500
Democracy Matters
By Cornel West, Penguin Books ISBN# 0143035835
Black Religious Intellectuals: The fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century
By Clarence Taylor, Taylor & Francis Inc., ISBN# 0415933277
Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity By Yolanda King, Elodia Tate, foreword by Coretta Scott King, McGraw-Hill Companies, ISBN# 0071438866
My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.
By Coretta Scott King, Henry Holt & Company Inc., ISBN# 080502445X
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
By Martin Luther King Jr., Beacon Press, ISBN# 0807005711
Strength To Love
By Martin Luther King Jr.,
2006 Titles:
Anatomy of Racial Inequality
By Glenn Loury
Black Georgetown Remembered
By Kathleen Lesko, Valerie Babb, and Carroll Gibbs
Middle Passage
By Charles Johnson
Open Wide the Freedom Gates
By Dorothy Height
The New Urban Leaders
By Joyce Ladner
Parting the Waters
By Taylor Branch
Reporting Civil Rights: Volume I and II
A compilation of journalists? reports from the period published by the Library of America
Selected African American Writing from 1760-1910
Edited by Arthur Davis, J. Sauders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce
The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
By William Bowen and Derek Bok
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
By John Lewis
When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
By Ira Katznelson