LibGuides: Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive: Black History Month: The Black Family

Resources

Daughters of the Dust
A film about three generations of Gullah (Geechee) women on St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Oxford African American Studies Center
A database focusing on black history and culture.

Black, White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
ISBN: 1573221694
Publication Date: 2000-12-28
Rebecca Walker examines her early years in Mississippi as the child of parents active in the Civil Rights movement in the bloody heart of the segregated South.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
An American classic, this haunting coming-of-age story is based in part of James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem.
The Kings of Mississippi by Sandra L. Barnes; Benita Blanford-Jones
ISBN: 1108539653
Publication Date: 2019-03-13
Examined through the experiences of seven generations of a farming family, how a twentieth-century Black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi.

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Celebrate Black History Month 2021. Learn more about the black family, the theme of Black History Month 2021, with these selected resources from the UT Libraries.

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