Introduction
Select titles from the Dunbar Library print collection are listed below, organized by subject area: History, Science & Medicine, Social Change, Biographies, and Fiction. Feel free to browse the shelves at Dunbar using the Library of Congress Call Numbers.
Library of Congress Call Numbers for African and Black Studies
Books focusing on African, African American, and Black Studies can be found in many places throughout the library's main collection, located on the 3rd Floor of Dunbar Library. The list of call numbers below are some of the more concentrated areas of the collection.
DT: African history and general cultures
E 184 - E 185: African American history
HT 601 - HT 1595: Class, race, slavery (general)
PL 8000 - 9000: African literature written or translated from an African language
PR 9205 - 9339: Caribbean and Diaspora literature, not the United States
PR 9340 - 9410: Literature by authors of African heritage written in English
PS: American literature, including African American authors
History
Between the World and Me by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.615 .C6335 2015ISBN: 9780812993547Publication Date: 2015
The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972 by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor LC2781 .R65 2012ISBN: 9780230117808Publication Date: 2012
A Black Women's History of the United States by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.86 .B475 2020ISBN: 9780807033555Publication Date: 2020
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor HV9956.G76 K56 2012ISBN: 9780061792281Publication Date: 2012
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.61 .K358 2016ISBN: 9781568584638Publication Date: 2016
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E443 .J775 2019ISBN: 9780300218664Publication Date: 2019
Tigerland: 1968-1969, A City Divided, A Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor GV885.73.C65 H39 2019ISBN: 9780525432579Publication Date: 2019
Violence from Slavery To #BlackLivesMatter: African American History and Representation by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS173.N4 V46 2020ISBN: 9780367359317Publication Date: 2019
Biographies
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor D769.343 320th .H467 2015ISBN: 9780062313799Publication Date: 2015
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor QA27.5 .L44 2016ISBN: 9780062363596Publication Date: 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor RC265.6.L24 S55 2010ISBN: 9781400052172Publication Date: 2010
March by Call Number: Dunbar Popular Reading - Young Adult PN6790.A9 .M37 2016 v.1-3ISBN: 9781603093958Publication Date: 2016
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor HG172.H36 W45 2015ISBN: 9781250070562Publication Date: 2015
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor KF8745.M34 H394 2015ISBN: 9780307957191Publication Date: 2015
Social Change
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.615 .W3125 2016ISBN: 9781587433429Publication Date: 2016
And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK: An Illustrated Chronology by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.86 .G3734 2015ISBN: 9780062427007Publication Date: 2015
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor E185.615 .G548 2016ISBN: 9780804137416Publication Date: 2016
From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence by Call Number: Dunbar Reference HV8141 .C635 2020ISBN: 9781421436449Publication Date: 2020
Science & Medicine
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor R853.H8 W37 2006ISBN: 0385509936Publication Date: 2007
Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform American's Health Care System by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor RA412.4 .S65 2016ISBN: 9780826521064Publication Date: 2016
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor RM666.H7 K34 2013ISBN: 9780231162982Publication Date: 2012
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor RA563.M56 H63 2012ISBN: 9780520248908Publication Date: 2012
Fiction
An American Marriage by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3610.O63 A84 2018ISBN: 9781616208776Publication Date: 2018
Juneteenth by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3555.L625 J86 1999ISBN: 0394464575Publication Date: 1999
Kindred by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3552.U827 K5 2003ISBN: 9780807083697Publication Date: 2004
Paradise by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3563.O8749 P37 1998bISBN: 0679433740Publication Date: 1997
Sag Harbor by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3573.H4768 S35 2009ISBN: 9780385527651Publication Date: 2009
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3623.A7323 S56 2017ISBN: 9781501126062Publication Date: 2017
The Underground Railroad by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3573.H4768 U53 2016ISBN: 9780385542364Publication Date: 2016
The Water Dancer by Call Number: Dunbar 3rd Floor PS3603.O17 W38 2019ISBN: 9780399590597Publication Date: 2019
