Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Published July 2023. Places Greenville’s experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of…
Available from the University of South Carolina Press. Published May 2023. The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and…
Published 2023 Available at the Richland County Library in print, ebook, Audiobook, and eAudiobook formats. In Maame readers can witness the journey of a young woman who overcomes adversity and learns to embrace her…
Published 2018 Available at the Richland County Library in print and ebook formats. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed.
Published April 2023 Available from the University of South Carolina Press. In Light and Legacies, Janaka Bowman Lewis explores Black girlhood and the literary history of “Black Girl…
Available in the Richland Library collection in print format. From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the “me too” movement, Tarana Burke debuts…
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…
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…
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…