Special Collections: Black History Resources

Fiction and autobiographies in the Hypatia Collection include:

• All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (1987) by Maya Angelou [Hypatia FIC/ANG]
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1984) by Maya Angelou [Hypatia FIC/ANG]
• Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted (1987) by Frances W. Harper [Hypatia CRIT/HAR]
• In My Place (1992) by Charlayne Hunter-Gault [Hypatia USA/HUN]
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1987) by Zora Neale Hurston [Hypatia FIC/HUR]
• Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts (1960) by Noni Jabavu [Hypatia BIO/JAB]
• Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power (1978) by Audre Lorde [Hypatia CRIT/LOR]
• Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrisson [Hypatia FIC/MOR]
• Jazz (1992) by Toni Morrison [Hypatia FIC/MOR]
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1983), edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa [Hypatia CRIT/MOR]
• The Street (1986) by Ann Petry [Hypatia FIC/PET]
• The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), edited by Toni Cade [Hypatia POL/CAD]
• Assata: An Autobiography (1987) by Assata Shakur [Hypatia BIO/SHA]
• The Color Purple (2000) by Alice Walker [Hypatia FIC/WAL]
• Meridian (1976) by Alice Walker [Hypatia FIC/WAL]
• The Temple of my Familiar (1989) by Alice Walker [Hypatia FIC/WAL]

Non-fiction books in the Hypatia Collection:

• The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain (1985) by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe [Hypatia POL/BRY] 
• Racial discrimination in England: based on the PEP report (1968) by William Wentworth Daniel [Hypatia POL/DAN] 
• Women, Race & Class (1982) by Angela Y. Davis [Hypatia CRIT/DAV]
• Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (1990), edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki L. Ruiz [Hypatia POL/DUB]
• The Character of the Word: The Texts of Zora Neale Hurston (1987), by Karla F.C. Holloway [Hypatia CRIT/HOL]
• All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (1982), edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith [Hypatia CRIT/HUL]
• Strangers & Sisters: Women, Race & Immigration: Voices from the Conference "Black and Immigrant Women Speak Out and Claim Our Rights," London, England, 13 November 1982 (1985), edited by Selma James [Hypatia POL/JAM]
• Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives (1986) by Gloria I. Joseph and Jill Lewis [Hypatia CRIT/JOS]
• The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy (1983) by Albert Murray [Hypatia CRIT/MUR]
• Women in Southern Africa (1987), edited by Christine Qunta [Hypatia CRIT/QUN]
• The Black Woman (1980), edited by La Frances Rodgers-Rose [Hypatia CRIT/ROD]
• Black Literature in America: A Casebook (1970), edited by Raman K. Singh and Peter Fellowes [Hypatia CRIT/SIN]
• Mary Seacole: Teacher's Pack and Learning Resources (1992) by Alex Attewell, Sam Walker, the Black Cultural Archives and the Florence Nightingale Museum  [Hypatia NUR/SEA/X]
• Black Women Writers at Work (1983), edited by Claudia Tate [Hypatia CRIT/TAT]
• Racist and Sexist Images in Children's Books (1975) by the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative (London) [Hypatia LIT/RAC/Pamphlet]
• Magazines and journals in the Hypatia Collection, such as Spare Rib [Hypatia JOU/SPA], also contain many articles concerning Black women's experiences [browse all magazines and journals in the Hypatia Collection here].

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