Black History Month Library Guide

"Black: a celebration of a culture" - compiled by Deborah Willis.

Book- Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

African Arts

Journal - Available via the Online Library

In the black fantastic / Ekow Eshun - 2022

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Afro-Atlantic histories / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomas Toledo - 2021

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black matrilineage, photography, and representation: another way of knowing / Lesly Deschler Canossi& Zoraida Lopez-Diago 2022

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Dearly Beloved or Unrequited? To Be ‘Black’ in Art's Histories / Sonia Boyce, Dorothy Price

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Lorna Simpson / interview, Thelma Golden ; survey, Kellie Jones ; focus, Chrissie Iles

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Lorna Simpson / Joan Simon

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black Gold: A Black Feminist Art History of 1920s Montréal / Joana Joachim

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Chris Ofili

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Rose Piper’s painting and fabric design / Saul Nelson - 2022

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Alma W. Thomas : everything is beautiful / edited by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Jean-Michel Basquiat - drawing : work from the Schorr Family Collection / Fred Hoffman

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Kara Walker : narratives of a negress / Ian Berry

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Lorna Simpson / Okwui Enwezor

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

African textiles : colour and creativity across a continent / John Gillow

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The essential art of African textiles : design without end / Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Zanele Muholi : Somnyama Ngonyama, hail the dark lioness / Zanele Muholi

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Mickalene Thomas / Kellie Jones, Roxane Gay

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Mickalene Thomas : I can't see you without me / foreword by Sherri Geldin ; text by Nicole R Fleetwood, Michael Goodson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Antwaun Sargent

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Mickalene Thomas : femmes noires / edited by Andrea Andersson, Julie Crooks.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Eye dreaming : photographs by Anthony Barboza / Anthony Barboza, Aaron Bryant, Mazie M. Harris

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Jean-Michel Basquiat and the art of storytelling / edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Basquiat : boom for real / edited by Dieter Buchhart and Eleanor Nairne

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Fashionable ‘Formation’: Reclaiming the Sartorial Politics of Josephine Baker / Jennifer Sweeney-Risko

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Gordon Parks : no excuses / text by Ann Parr ; photographs by Gordon Parks ; illustrations by Kathryn Breidenthal

Gordon Parks - the atmosphere of crime, 1957 / edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Gordon Parks - segregation story / with contributions by Michael E. Shapiro, Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Maurice Berger, and Brett Abott

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Lubaina Himid / edited by Michael Wellen

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Rediscovering Black portraiture / Peter Brathwaite

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The African lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of African women / Catherine E. McKinley

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Swagger Like Us: Black Millennials’ Perceptions, Knowledge, and Influence of 1980s and 1990s Urban Fashion Brands - Johnson, Reddy-Best, Sanders - 2022

Journal Article - Access via the Online Library 

Black Victorians : black people in British art, 1800-1900 / edited by Jan Marsh

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The “Afro Look” and global Black consciousness / Tanisha Ford - 2015

Journal Article - Access via the Online Library

Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham - 2020

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Contemporary African art since 1980 / Owkui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu - 2009

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Balthazar : a Black African king in Medieval and Renaissance art / edited by Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Shades of black: assembling black arts in 1980s Britain / David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom & Sonia Boyce

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Exiles, diasporas & strangers / edited by Kobena Mercer - 2008

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Aesthetics of Blackness? Cloth, culture, and the African diasporas / Christine Checinska / 2018

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Curating fashion as decolonial practice: Ndwalane’s Mblaselo and a politics of remembering / Erica de Greef - 2020

Journal Article - Available via the Online Library

Stick to the skin : African American & British black art: 1965-2015 / Celeste-Marie Bernier.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Recovering an African American fashion legacy that clothed the American elite / Elizabeth Keckly & Ann Lowe - 2015

Journal Article - Access via the Online Library

Seydou Keïta / edited by André Magnin - 1997

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

A black gaze: artists changing how we see / Tina M. Campt - 2021

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Beyond bling: voices of hip-hop in art / Matthew McLendon - 2011

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black comix : African American independent comics, art and culture / Damian Duffy and John Jennings; foreword by Keith Knight - 2010

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black art : A cultural history - Richard J. Powell - 2003

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black art and culture in the 20th century / Richard J. Powell - 1997

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The new black vanguard: photography between art and fashion / curated by Antwaun Sargent - 2019

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

British black art: debates on Western art history / Sophie Orlando - 2016

Book - Available to borow at Grangegorman Library

Reflections in Black: a history of Black photographers, 1840 to the present / Deborah Willis - 2000

Book - Available to borow at Grangegorman Library

To make their own way in the world : the enduring legacy of the Zealy daguerreotypes / edited by Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, Deborah Willis - 2020

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The vanishing half / Brit Bennett - 2022

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo - 2020

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi - 2017

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

We need new names / NoViolet Bulawayo - 2013

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Linguistic justice : black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy / April Baker-Bell - 2020

Book - Available to borrow at Bolton Street Library

The devil finds work: an essay / James Baldwin - 1976

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Purple hibiscus : a novel / by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2005

Book - Available to borrow at Blanchardstown Library

Giovanni's room / James Baldwin - 1956

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

The fishermen / Chigozie John Obioma

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Invisible man / Ralph Ellison ; with an introduction by John Callahan.

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Book - Available to borrow at Blanchardstown and Tallaght Library

26A / Diana Evans

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Desertion / Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Roots / Alex Haley

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Your silence will not protect you / Audre Lorde

Book - Available to borrow at Blanchardstown Library

The writing of Wole Soyinka / Eldred Durosimi Jones

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Waiting to exhale / Terry McMillan

Book - Available to borrow at Bolton Street Library

A brief history of seven killings / Marlon James

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Beloved / Toni Morrison

Book - Available to Borrow at Bolton Street, Aungier Street, Blanchardstown and Tallaght Library

Jazz / Toni Morrison.

Book - Available to borrow in Tallaght Library

Song of Solomon

Book - Available to borrow at Bolton Street and Tallaght Libraries

Swing time / Zadie Smith

Book - Available to borrow at Blanchardstown Library

The color purple / Alice Walker.

Book - Available to borrow at Blanchardstown Library

Horses make a landscape look more beautiful / Alice Walker - 1985

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Sing unburied sing : a novel / Jesmyn Ward

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead.

Book - Available to borrow at Aungier Street Library

Nine black women. edited and introduced by Moira Ferguson

Book - Available to borrow at Tallaght Library

Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction / Anna Pochmara

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Research In African Literature

eJournal - Available via the Online Library

“Why Talk About the Children?”: James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, and the Future of Care - 2023

eJournal Article - Available via the Online Library

James Baldwin Review

eJournal - Available via the Online Library

The amen corner: a play / James Baldwin - 1954

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Original copy of landmark issue #4 of BLACK THEATER : a periodical of the Black theatre movement, 1969

Journal - Available via the Online Library

'Don't wait for permission': Ava DuVernay as a Black female intellectual and political artist / Teresa Hagan - 2022

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Black acting methods : critical approaches / Sharrell D. Luckett & Tia M. Shaffer - 2017

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black Identity and Resistance Revisited through Jordan Peele's Get Out and Us / Jayson Baker - 2023

Journal article - Available through the Online Library

The Odyssey : a stage version / Derek Walcott.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

A raisin in the sun, and ; The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Fences : and Ma Rainey's black bottom / August Wilson

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Blues for Mister Charlie : a play / by James Baldwin.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Josephine Baker : the hungry heart / Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase - 2001

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Nollywood cinema's character of recurrence / Lani Akande - 2021

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Computational Blackness:The procedural logics of race, game, and cinema, or How Spike Lee's 'Livin' Da Dream' productively "broke" a popular video game / TreaAndrea M. Russworm - 2018

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

The Longman anthology of drama and theater : a global perspective / Michael L. Greenwald, Roger Schultz, Roberto D. Pomo.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black American Cinema / edited by Manthia Diawara - 1993

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Horror vérité: politics and history in Jordan Peele’s 'Get Out' / Alison Landsberg / 2017

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

The Past is Never Past: The Call and Response between Marvel's Black Panther and Early Black Speculative Fiction / Valerie Babb

eJournal Article - Available via the Online Library

Passing and Posing between Black and White: Calibrating the Color Line in U.S. Cinema / Lisa Gotto

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Black city cinema: African American urban experiences in film / Paula J. Massood

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Black Camera : an international film journal

eJournal - Access via the Online Library

Nollywood / Tade Ipadeola

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

From Living in Bondage to Queen Amina: An Aesthetic Evaluation of Contemporary Nollywood / Ezepue Ezinne Michaelia

eJournal Article - Available via the Online Library

Space is the place: Black Cinema in search of speculative fictions / Ewa Drygalska - 2019

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Locating black queer TV: Fans, producers, and networked publics on YouTube / Faithe Day, Aymar Jean Christian

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

A Wholistic View of Black Women on Scripted TV: A Content Analysis / Vaness Cox, L. Monique Ward

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Too Hot for TV: Black Sketch Comedy and the Politics of Crossing-Over

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

B(l)ack by popular demand: an analysis of positive Black male characters in television and audiences’ community cultural wealth / David L. Stamps - 2021

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

The Black Arts Movement reprise: television and Black Art in the 21st Century / Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar - 2019

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

It's Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television / Gayle Wald

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Black television travels: African American media around the globe / Timothy Havens - 2013

eBook - Available via the Online Library

Nina Simone the Civil Rights Movement: protest at her piano, audience at her feet / A. Loudermilk - 2013

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Black Music Research Journal

eJournal - Available via the Online Library

The power of Black music: interpreting its history from Africa to the United States / Samuel A. Floyd - 1995

eBook - Available via the ACLS Humanities eBook Collection

Blackness in opera / edited by Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Women of Color in the Conducting Profession: Where Are They? / Ronnie Wooten

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Josephine Baker and Mercedes Baptista: cases of the representations of Black women in dance / Julia Baker, Cássia Navas

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Gay guerrilla : Julius Eastman and his music / edited by Renee Levine Packer, Mary Jane Leach

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

W. Rudolph Dunbar: Pioneering Orchestra Conductor

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free": Nina Simone and the Redefining of the Freedom Song of the 1960s / Tammy L. Kernodle

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

“A queer black woman invented rock-and-roll”: Rosetta Tharpe, memes, and memory practices in the digital age / Gayle Wald

eJournal Article - Available via the Online Library

A change is gonna come : music, race & the soul of America / Craig Werner

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Funk & soul covers / Joaquim Paulo

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Ray Charles : man and music / Michael Lydon

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Black music matters : jazz and the transformation of music studies / Ed Sarath.

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Purple Visions of Blackness: Prince’s Expansion of the Depictions of Black Experiences Through his Music Videos / Sedrick Smith

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Gil Scott-Heron, Interview: Giving back to the community 1996

by Gaither, Larvester et al.

in The Journal of Pan African studies, 12/2016, Volume 9, Issue 10

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Beyond bling: voices of hip-hop in art / Matthew McLendon - 2011

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

The new blue music : changes in rhythm & blues, 1950-1999 / Richard J. Ripani

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

William Grant Still: a study in contradictions / Catherine Parsons Smith - 2000

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

eBook - Available via the Online Library

A Blues Aesthetic: Performance Practice, Politics, and History / Julia Simon

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Anglo-black composer, 1875-1912 / William Tortolano - 2003

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, musician: his life and letters / W.C. Berwick Sayers - 1927

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

“Strange what cosmopolites music makes of us”: Classical music, the Black Press, and Nora Douglas Holt's Black feminist audiotopia / Lucy Caplan - 2020

Journal article - Available via the Online Library

Restaging respectability: the subversive performances of Josephine Baker and Nora Holt in Jazz-Age Paris / Samantha Ege - 2022

Journal article - Avaiable via the Online Library

“I’m a Little Black Boy and I Don’t Know My Place”: Phil Lynott and the Black Atlantic / Matthew Bannister

eJournal Article - Available via the Online Library

Blind Tom: Black Pianist-Composer 1849-1908

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

What the music said: Black popular music and Black public culture / Mark Anthony Neal - 1999

Book - Available to borrow at Grangegorman Library

Four Classic Albums / Count Basie

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Soul Food / Cyrus Chestnut

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

The Shape of Jazz to Come / Ornette Coleman

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

A Love Supreme / John Coltrane

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

The very best of John Coltrane : the Atlantic years

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Kind of Blue / Miles Davis

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Miles Davis Quintet: 1965-1968 / Miles Davis Quintet

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Choc 'n soul / Manu Dibango

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Studio Recorded Duets

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

All Star Sessions / Dizzy Gillespie

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Head Hunters / Herbie Hancock

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Body and Soul / Coleman Hawkins

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Eight Classic Albums / Charles Mingus

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Eight Classic Albums / Hank Mobley

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Four Classic Albums / Thelonious Monk

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Complete Jazz at Massey Hall / Charlie Parker

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Four Classic Albums / Sonny Rollins

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

Original Album Classics / Weather Report

Audiovisual CD - Available at Grangegorman Library

The commandments of early rhythm and blues drumming: a guided tour through the musical era that birthed rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, and hip-hop - Zoro and Daniel Glass - 2008

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library

Billie Holiday anthology: "Lady Day" had a right to sing the Blues - Billie Holiday

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library 

Complete piano rags / Scott Joplin

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library 

"Solace" and other short works for piano / Scott Joplin

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library 

Memphis : a new musical :vocal selections [music] / music by David Bryan; lyrics by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library

Motown: the musical : piano/vocal selections [music] / book by Berry Gordy; music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalog.

Music Score - Available at Grangegorman Library

The Miles Davis Story [DVD]

DVD - Available at Grangegorman Library