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BOOKS

​This page features a representative compilation of books written about black people in the region that have been published over the course of the past several years.  For a more comprehensive list of books that cover the region, see our Black Midwest bibliography.
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Black Toledo: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Toledo, Ohio
Abdul Alkalimat & Rubin Patterson
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The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago
Abdul Alkalimat, Rebecca Zorach, and Romi Crawford
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Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
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Marlon M. Bailey
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
Herb Boyd
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A People’s Atlas of Detroit
Linda Campbell, et al.
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Diesel Heart
Melvin Carter Jr.
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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration​
Marcia Chatelain
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
​Anna Clark
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The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
​Anna-Lisa Cox
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Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship ​
Aimee Meredith Cox
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Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis
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Keona K. Ervin
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Eve L. Ewing
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Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood
Mark S. Fleisher
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The Last Children of Mill Creek
Vivian Gibson
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Double Exposure: Images of Black Minnesota in the 1940s
John Glanton
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Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912
​William D. Green
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Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt
Jason Hackworth
Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
Judith Hamera
American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
Black Hawk Hancock
The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape
Javon Johnson & Kevin Coval
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson
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Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
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The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
Scott Kurashige
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Commando
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E'mon Lauren
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When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
David Todd Lawrence and Elaine J. Lawless
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Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
Christopher P. Lehman
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​Leaving CLE: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal
​Janice A. Lowe
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Wild Hundreds
Nate Marshall
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Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Brian McCammack
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
Lezley McSpadden
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Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900-1980
Todd M. Michney
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Natalie Y. Moore
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​Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots that Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
Dan Méndez Moore
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Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion
​Jamala Rogers
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Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Ronald J. Stephens
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Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
David Stradling and Richard Stradling
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Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
​Andrea Swensson
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GeNtry!fication or the Scene of the Crime
Chaun Webster
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Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
​Terrion L. Williamson
The Black Midwest Initiative is sponsored in part by the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of African American & African Studies and the  Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative at the University of Minnesota.
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