Black History Month 2024

The original Advancing Geography Through Diversity committee members (L-R): Ashton Shortridge, Dee Jordan, Alan Arbogast, Sharon Ruggles, and Joe Darden.

 

This month, we celebrate “Black History Month,” which pays tribute to generations of African-Americans and the triumphs and adversities they have faced throughout history.

 

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Additional Resources

• Books - General Public

  • Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The New Press, 2020. 

  • Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bantam Books, 1971.

  • Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On the Mountain, Vintage, 2013.

  • Berry, Daina Ramey & Gross, Kali Nicole. A Black Women’s History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2021.

  • Brown, Channing Austin. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Convergent Books, 2018.

  • Coates, Laura. Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness, Simon & Schuster, 2022.

  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me, The Text Publishing Company, 2015.

  • Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: Written by Himself, Yale University Press, 2016.

  • Dyson, Michael Eric. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2021.

  • Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, Vintage Books, 1995.

  • Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist, The New Press, 1995.

  • hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Holt McDougal, 1996.

  • Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes: A Classic Collection of Poems by a Master of American Verse, Vintage, 1990.

  • Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Dover Publications, 2001.

  • Jones, Martha S. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Basic Books, 2020.

  • Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Beacon Press, 2022.

  • Kendi, Ibram. How to Be an Antiracist, One World, 2023.

  • Kendi, Ibram. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Bold Type Books, 2017.

  • Kendi, Ibram & Blain, Keisha N. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, One World, 2022.

  • King, Jr., Martin Luther. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 2010.

  • Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, New Society Publishers, 1995.

  • Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press, 2007.

  • Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Central Recovery Press, 2017.

  • Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Atria Books, 2014.

  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Vintage, 2004.

  • Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race, Seal Press, 2019.

  • Saad, Layla F. Me & White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Sourcebooks, 2020.

  • Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Norton, 2018.

  • Taylor, by Keeanga-Yamahtta. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Haymarket Books, 2017.

  • Wilkerson, Isabel. Warmth of Other Suns, Vintage, 2010.

  • Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of our Discontent, Random House, 2020.

  • X, Malcom & Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ishi Press, 2015.

• Podcasts - General Public

  • An American Reckoning on Race (Philip Hart)

  • Code Switch (Shereen Marisol Meraji & Gene Demby, hosts)

  • Diversity: Beyond the Checkbox (Donald Thompson, host)

  • Diversity in Tech (Joanna Udo, host)

  • In Black America (John L. Hanson Jr., host)

  • MSU alumnus advocates solution-oriented approach to fighting racism and promoting social justice https://www.wkar.org/post/msu-alumnus-advocates-solutions-oriented-approach-fighting-racism-and-promoting-social-justice#stream/

• Other resources - General Public

  • SoarWorks DEI Resources—Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

  • Socialight Society—the first Black woman-owned bookstore and microshop in the Greater Lansing area (Read more here)

  • We Are Lit—a Black-owned, multicultural bookshop in Grand Rapids, MI

• Books - Academic

  • Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, Routledge, 2020.

  • Blassingame, J. W. The slave community: Plantation life in the antebellum South, Oxford University Press, 1979.

  • Blumenfled, W. J., Castaneda, C., Hackman, H. W., Peters, M. L., & Zuniga, X. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (3rd), Routledge, 2013.

  • Camp, S. M. Closer to freedom: Enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation south. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005.

  • Darden, Joe T. Divided neighborhoods: Changing patterns of racial segregation, Sage Publications,1987.

  • Darden, Joe T., Sameh M. Kamel, and Andrew J. Jacobs. Black faculty in predominantly White US institutions of higher education: The influence of Black student enrollment, Equity & Excellence in Education, 1998.

  • Davis, Angela. Women, Race, & Class, Vintage, 1983.

  • DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Joy DeGruy Publications Inc, 2005.

  • Du Bois, W. E. B. Black reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, Scribner, 1762.

  • Franklin, J. H., & Moss Jr, A. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (9^th Edition), McGraw-Hill, 2010.

  • Harold, Claudrena N. When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras. University of Illinois Press, 2020.

  • Hunter, Tera W. Bound in wedlock: Slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Harvard University Press, 2017.

  • Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power & Difference (3rd ed), McGraw Hill, 2017.

  • Johnson, C. V. & Friedman, H. L. The Praeger Handbook of Social Justice and Psychology (Vol. 1-3­), Praeger, 2014.

  • June, Lee & Parker, Matthew. The Black family: Past Present, and Future, Zondervan, 2020.

  • June, Lee & Parker, Matthew. Men to Men, Zondervan, 1996.

  • June, Lee & Parker, Matthew. Evangelism and Discipleship in African American Churches, Zondervan, 1999.

  • June, Lee; Black, Sabrina & Richardson, Willie. Counseling for Seemingly Impossible Problems: A Biblical Perspective, Zondervan, 2007.

  • June, Lee. Yet With a Steady Beat: The Black Church Through a Psychological and Biblical Lens, Lift Every Voice, 2008.

  • June, Lee & Mathis Jr., Christopher. African American Church Leadership: Principles of Effective Ministry and Community Leadership, Kregel Academic & Professional, 2013.

  • Mustakeem, S. M. Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the Middle Passage. University of Illinois Press, 2016.

  • Owens, Deirdre Cooper. Medical bondage: Race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology. University of Georgia Press, 2017.

  • Robinson, Cedric. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Penguin Classics, 2021.

  • Rothenberg, P. S. White Privilege: Essential readings on the other side of racism (5th Ed), Worth Publishers, 2015.

  • Snorton, C. R. Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity. U of Minnesota Press, 2017.

  • West, Cornel. Race Matters, Beacon, 1993.

  • Williams, Kidada E. They Left Great Marks on Me. New York University Press, 2012.

• Articles – Academic and Non-Academic

  • Bouie, Jamelle. “The 1619 Project: What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery” (2019), New York Times Magazine.

  • Bouie, Jamelle. “The 1619 Project: America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: That some people deserve more power than others” (2019), New York Times Magazine.

  • Crenshaw, Kimberle "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8.

  • Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–99.

  • Darden, J. Rahbar, Mohammad, Jezierski, Louise, Li, Min and Velie, Ellen “The Measurement of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics and Black and White Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Detroit: Implications for the Study of Social Disparities in Health” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100 (1) 2010: 137 – 158.

  • Darden, J. "Population Control or a Redistribution of Wealth: A Dilemma of Class and Race," Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Vol. 7, September 1975, pp. 50 52.

  • Darden, Joe & Kame, Sameh Black. “Residential Segregation in the City and Suburbs of Detroit: Does Socioeconomic Status Matter?”, Journal of Urban Affairs, 2016.

  • Elliot, Mary & Hughes, Jazmine. “The 1619 Project: A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn’t Learn in School” (2019), New York Times Magazine.

  • Grady, S. & Darden, J. “Spatial Methods to Study Local Racial Residential Segregation and Infant Health in Detroit, Michigan” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2012, Special Issue Volume 102 (5) 2012: 922-931.

  • Mitchell, Uchechi A et al. “The Long Arm of Oppression: How Structural Stigma Against Marginalized Communities Perpetuates Within-Group Health Disparities.” Health education & behavior: the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 48,3 (2021): 342-351. doi:10.1177/10901981211011927

  • Moody, H. Darden, J.T. & Pigozzi, B. “The Racial Gap in Childhood Blood Lead Levels Related to Socioeconomic Position of Residence in Metropolitan Detroit” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, (2016), 2(2), 200- 218.

  • Moody, H. Darden, J. & Pigozzi, B. “The Relationship of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Differences and Racial Residential Segregation to Childhood Blood Lead Levels in Metropolitan Detroit” Journal of Urban Health, 2016, 93(5),820-839.

  • Philip Hart, James E. Blackwell and Robert H. Sharpley, MD, “Health Needs of Urban Blacks”, Solomon Fuller Institute, Cambridge, MA, 1978 (Funded by NIH); Surveying Alienation among Metropolitan Blacks, American Statistical Association Proceedings, 1979.

  • Philip Hart and James E. Blackwell “Cities, Suburbs and Blacks: A Study of Concerns, Distrust and Alienation Cities, Suburbs and Blacks: A Study of Concerns, Distrust and Alienation General Hall,” Bayside, NY, 1982.

  • Philip Hart, “Telling the Story of Early Black Aviators,” UMass Boston Trotter Review, 1987.

  • Philip Hart, “The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City: Does Race Matter?” UMass Boston Trotter Review, 1995.

  • Vojnovic, I. & Darden, J. “Class/Racial Conflict, Intolerance, and Distortions in Urban Form: Lessons for Sustainability from the Detroit Region” Ecological Economics, 96, 2013: 88-98.

• Other Resources - Academic
  • https://comartsci.msu.edu/racial-justice-resources
  • https://www.rand.org/topics/racial-equity.html
  • https://socialwork.msu.edu/students/racial-and-social-justice-collaborative.html
• Documentaries

  • Black Is…Black Ain’t

  • Eyes on the Prize Documentary – Available on YouTube (about the African American Civil Rights Movement)

  • Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart – Available on PBS (about Lorraine Hansberry-writer/activist)

  • My Name is Pauli Murray

  • Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

• Children’s Books

  • Harrison, Vashti. Little Leaders: Black Women in Black History, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017.

  • Harrison, Vashti & Johnson, Kwesi. Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019.