Summer 2017 Reading List: Black Girlhood, A Selected List of Recent Books

Compiled by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian & Liaison for Gender & Sexuality Studies – Northwestern University Libraries*   Abraham, Nana. For Black Girls: The Shaping of a Young Woman. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2016. Adewole, Candice A. The Black Girl’s Guide to Being Blissfully Feminine. [s.l.]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. Boylorn, Robin M. Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience. New York: Peter Lang, […]

Summer 2017 Reading List: African American Fiction

Selected by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian – Northwestern University Libraries   Alers, Rochelle. The Inheritance. New York: Dafina Books, 2017. Benjamin, J M. Memoirs of an Accidental Hustler. Farmingdale, NY: Urban Books, 2017. Billingsley, ReShonda and Victoria C. Murray. A Blessing & a Curse. NY: Gallery Bks, 2017. Brown, Tracy. Boss. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2017. Childress, Alice, Roxane Gay, and Trudier Harris. Like One of the […]