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Includes articles on the history of African American women and on African American women writers

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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens by Rebecca Sharpless
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks HD 6072.2 .U52 S574 2010
ISBN: 9780807834329
Publication Date: 2010-11-11

Search SOUTHcat, ebrary, ACLS Humanities ebooks, and EBSCO eBook Collection for more books on African American women. These are books the Marx Library owns that could be useful.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks RC 265.6 .L24 S55 2010
ISBN: 9781400052172
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Fierce Angels: the strong black woman in American life and culture by Sheri Parks
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E 185.86 .P277 2010
ISBN: 9780345503145
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
Love of Freedom: black women in colonial and revolutionary New England by Catherine Adams; Elizabeth H. Pleck
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks E 443 .A33 2010
ISBN: 9780195389098
Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice : African American women and religion by Bettye Collier-Thomas
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks BR 563 .N4 C644 2010
ISBN: 9781400044207
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Jenniemae and James : a memoir in black & white by Brooke Newman
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks F 205 .A1 N49 2010
ISBN: 9780307462992
Publication Date: 2010-03-30
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture by Sherita Johnson; Sherita L. Johnson
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 261 .J55 2010
ISBN: 9780415992206
Publication Date: 2009-08-10
Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
Call Number: Univ. Library Reference E 185.86 .B542 2005
ISBN: 9780195156775
Publication Date: 2005-05-19
This is a three volume set.

Selected Novels

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3554 .A5815 B74 1995
ISBN: 9780679756613
Publication Date: 1995-03-28
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3552 .U827 K5 2003
ISBN: 9780807083697
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3573 .A425 P67 2008
ISBN: 9781595583642
Publication Date: 2008-05-06
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3623 .A7323 S36 2011
ISBN: 9781608195220
Publication Date: 2011-08-30
Ward's book was the 2011 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The University Library also has a copy at the Univ Lib Circ Desk, Alabama-Gulf Coast (Reserve Room Use), since Ward is a faculty member at USA.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3563 .O8749 B58 1972
ISBN: 9780671531461
Publication Date: 1984-05-01
The Street by Ann Petry
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3531 .E933 S75 1985
ISBN: 9780807063576
Publication Date: 1985-12-01
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS 3564 .A895 W6 1983
ISBN: 9780140066906
Publication Date: 1983-06-30
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by); Henry Louis Gates (Afterword by)
Call Number: University Library Bookstacks PS3515.U789 T639 1998
ISBN: 9780060931414
Publication Date: 1998-12-01