Available in the Richland Library collection in eAudiobook format. Mini’s big sister, Vinnie, is getting married. Their mom passed away seven years ago and between Dad’s new start-up and Vinnie’s medical residency, there’s…
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. A pioneering history of the Carolina rice kitchen and its African influences. Where did rice originate? How did the name Hoppin’ John evolve? Why was…
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography. Prior to the arrival…
Published May 2014 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and…
Published December 2022 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found—in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is…
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Bharati Mukherjee was the first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated…
Published August 2022 Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever books are sold. The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number…
Published May 2022 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. A Recent History of Unwed Pregnancy and Righteous Reproduction Enduring Shame recovers a misunderstood part of women’s recent history by considering why reproductive…
Published May 2022 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Child is the story of Judy Goldman’s relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid…
Published January 2020 Available in the Richland Library collection in print format. The true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, working-class teenagers who fought the Nazis by whatever means they could.