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MCC Book Collection MCC Book Collection African American Literature Title Author ISBN# AA 1 Visions for Black Men Na’im Akbar 1-55523-428-3 AA 2 The Tiger Wood’s Way John Ambrisani 0-609-60094-x AA 3 Even the Stars Look Lonesome Maya Angelou 0-315-50031-6 AA 4 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 0-394-58618-2 AA 5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 0-553-27937-8 AA 6 Baby of the Family Tina Elroy Ansa 0-15-610150-5 AA 7 The Beautiful Ones are Not Born Yet Ayi Kwei Armah 0-435-905-406 AA 8 The Black Man and the Promise of America Austin/Fenderson/Nelson 71-88606 AA 9 Never Satisfied: How and Why Men Cheat Michael Baisden 0-9643675-8-0 AA 10 Following the Color Line Ray Stannard Baker AA 11 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 0-440-33007-6 AA 12 Another Country James Baldwin TM681510 AA 13 Nobody Knows My Name James Baldwin TM681510 AA 14 Disposable People Kevin Bales 0-520-22463-9 AA 15 Maid In The Shade Jacqueline Turner Banks 0-9639147-3-1 AA 16 AMAN: The Story of a Somali Girl Barnes/Boddy 0-679-43606-5 AA 17 On Lynchings Ida Wells-Barnett 72-75854 AA 18 Emancipation and Equal Rights Herman Belz 0-393-05692-9 AA 19 Before the Mayflower Lerone Bennett, Jr. AA 20 Scream in Silence Eleanor Taylor Bland 0-312-20378-0 AA 21 Tell No Tales Eleanor Taylor Bland 0-312-20067-6 AA 22 Long Memory Berry/Blassingame 0-19-502909-7 AA 23 Negro Education in Alabama Horace Mann Bond AA 24 Girlfriend to Girlfriend Julia A. Boyd 0-525-93958-x AA 25 Momma, Where are you from? Mary Bradby 0-531-33105-9 AA 26 A Long Way From Home Connie Briscoe 0-06-017278-9 AA 27 Justice Denied Joyce Ann Brown 0-9622683-5-6 AA 28 The Black Woman’s guide to Financial Independence Cheryl D. Broussard 0-9627507-2-7 AA 29 ABC of African American Poetry Ashley Bryan 0-689-81209-4 AA 30 The Carthagian Honor Society Zaron W. Burnett, Jr. AA 31 Steppin’ out with attitude Anita Bunkley 0-06-095288-1 AA 32 Black Gold Anita Richmond Bunkley 0-525-93752-8 AA 33 Adulthood Rites Octavia E. Butler 0-445-20903-8 AA 34 Blood Child Octavia E. Butler 1-56858-055-x AA 35 Kindre D Octavia E. Butler 0-8070-8305-4 AA 36 All God’s Children Fox Butterfield 0-380-72862-1 AA 37 2-Your blues Ain’t like mine Bebe Moore Campbell 0-399-13746-7 AA 38 2-Sweet Summer Bebe Moore Campbell 0-449-14984-6 AA 39 Brothers and Sisters Bebe Moore Campbell 0-399-13929-x AA 40 I Do So Politely Robert Conzoneri AA 41 Reflection of an Affirmative Action Baby 0-465-06871-5 AA 42 2-Hope JaNiece Chitty Cefalu AA 43 A Very Special Kwanzaa Debbi Chocolate 0-590-84862-3 AA 44 2-Listen Up Girlfriends Connie Church 0-312-11995-x AA 45 Sojourner Truth Edward Beecher Claflin 0-8120-3919-x AA 46 Just Plain Folks Lorraine Johnson-Coleman 0-312-46084-2 AA 47 What A Woman’s Gotta Do Evelyn Coleman 0-684-83175-9 AA 48 The Jackson Phenomenon Elizabeth Colton 0-385-26070-9 AA 49 In Search of Satisfaction J. California Cooper 0-385-46785-0 AA 50 Some Love Some Pain Sometime J. California Cooper 0-385-46787-7 AA 51 The Matter is Life J. California Cooper 0-385-41174-x AA 52 A Piece of Mine J. California Cooper 0-7043-2877-1 AA 53 Soul Food Eric W. Copage 0-7868-8499-1 AA 54 The Family of Black America Cottman/Willis 0-517-88822-x AA 55 The Watsons Go To Birmingham Christopher Paul Curtis 0-440-41412-1 AA 56 Behind The Mountains Edwidge Danticat 0-439-37299-2 AA 57 The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat 1-56947-126-6 AA 58 Breathe, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 0-375-70504-x AA 59 Angela Davis Angela Davis 0-7178-0667-7 AA 60 Maker of Saints (2 copies) Thulani Davis 0-684-81225-8 AA 61 Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed you Made Deberry/Grant 0-312-96313-0 AA 62 Having Our Say (2 copies Delany/Delany/Hearth 0-440-22042-4 AA 63 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga 1-878067-77-x AA 64 Ante-Bellum Reform David Brion Davis AA 65 Life is so Good Dawson Glaubman 0-14-100168-2 AA 66 Black English J.L. Dillard 0-394-71872-0 AA 67 Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass 0-385-00705-1 AA 68 I’m White Martin B. Duberman 64-19984 AA 69 Black Reconstruction in America W.E.B. Dubois 64-15324 AA 70 My Soul to Keep Tananarive Due 0-06-018742-5 AA 71 Race Rules Michael Eric Dyson 0-679-78156-0 AA 72 Lanterns Marian Wright Edelman 0-8070-7214-1 AA 73 In the Shadow of the Peacock Grace Edwards-Yearwood 0-07-019037-2 AA 74 No Mountain High Enough Dorothy Ehrhart-Morrison, Ph.D. 0-943233-98-4 AA 75 Black Nationalism E.U. Essien-Udom AA 76 Homecourt Advantage Ewing/McCrary AA 77 Black Skin, White Mask Frantz Fanon 0-8021-5084-5 AA 78 The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 0-8021-5083-7 AA 79 Blind Ambitions Lolita Files 0-7434-8239-5 AA 80 The Crusades Against Slavery Louis Filler 60-13441 AA 81 Time on the Cross Fogel/Engerman 0-316-28700-8 AA 82 Black and White:Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Timothy Thomas Forture 68-28995 AA 83 From Slavery to Freedom John Hope Franklin 0-394-48786-9 AA 84 Black Bourgeoisle Franklin Frazier A62-8728 AA 85 The Political Economy of Slavery Eugene D. Genovese AA 86 Ties That Bind Way Down Deep Monique Gilmor-Scott 0-9664355-0-8 AA 87 Catherine Carmier Ernest J. Gaines 0-679-73891-6 AA 88 When Negroes March Herbert Garfinkel 69-15522 AA 89 Colored People Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 0-679-42179-3 AA 90 Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Black Man Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 0-679-45713-5 AA 91 Paul Laurence Dunbar Tom Gentry 1-55546-583-8 AA 92 The Blacks: A Clown Show Jean Genet 0-394-17220-5 AA 93 Pushed Back to Strength Gloria Wade-Gayles 0-8070-0922-9 AA 94 Elevating the Game Nelson George 0-06-016723-8 AA 95 Urban Romance Nelson George 0-399-13865-x AA 96 Keeper of the House Rebecca T. Godwin 0-312-11405-2 AA 97 Whoopi Goldberg Book Whoopi Goldberg 0-688-15252-x AA 98 Six Feet of the Country Nadine Gordimer 0-14-006559-8 AA 99 Faraday’s Popcorn Factory Sandra Lee Gould 0-312-18578-2 AA 100 Everlasting Love Gay G. Gunn 1-885478-02-x AA 101 The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind Rosa Guy 0-452-27551-2 AA 102 The Sweeter the Juice Shirlee Taylor Haizlip 0-671-89933-3 AA 103 Showers of Blessings Patsy Johnson Hallman AA 104 The Psalm of Life Patsy J. Hallman 1-57168-270-8 AA 105 Life’s Playbook for Success 0-9665215-0-1 AA 106 Anthony Burns Virginia Hamilton 0-679-83997-6 AA 107 There is a River Vincent Harding 0-394-71148-3 AA 108 B-Boy Blues James Earl Hardy 1-55583-268-7 AA 109 South of Haunted Dreams Eddy L. Harris 0-670-84756-9 AA 110 Invisible Life E. Lynn Harris 0-385-46968-3 AA 111 Mama Bless Marcus Dwayne Haskins AA 112 Black Dance in America James Haskins 0-690-04657-x AA 113 All American Dream Dolls David Haynes 1-57131-015-0 AA 114 Understanding and Counseling Ethnic Minorities George Henderson 0-398-03916-x AA 115 M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 0-02-043490-1 AA 116 This Side of Glory Hilliard/Cole 0-316-36415-0 AA 117 The Huey P. Newton Reader Hilliard/Weise 1-58322-467-x AA 118 Pieces of Dreams Donna Hill 1-58314-020-4 AA 119 If He Hollers, Let Him Go Chester Himes 1-56025-097-6 AA 120 The Third Generation Chester Himes 0-938410-73-3 AA 121 Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? Sandy Lynn Holman 0-9644655-0-7 AA 122 Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Debrah Hopkinson 0-679-82311-5 AA 123 Different and Wonderful Hopson/Hopson 0-13-211509-3 AA 124 Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard 0-689-80076-2 AA 125 The Mugging of Black America Earl Ofari Hutchinson 0-913543-21-7 AA 126 Black Fatherhood II Earl Ofari Hutchinson 1-881032-10-8 AA 127 The Assassination of the Black Image Earl Ofari Hutchinson 1-881032-11-6 AA 128 I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 0-89239-151-0 AA 129 Book of Black Heroes Igus/Ellis/Patrick/Wesley 0-940975-26-2 AA 130 The Ku Klux Klan in the City Kenneth T. Jackson AA 131 Sweeter Than Candy Rhodesia Jackson 0-9637282-1-0 AA 132 The Negro and the American Labor Movement Julius Jackson 68-12042 AA 133 Woman Thou Art Loosed T.D.
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