Schomburg Black Liberation Reading

The Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List
by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Claudia Rankine's Citizen: American Lyric, and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time are some of the books on the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List. Rio Cortez, manager and creative coordinator at the Schomburg Shop, curated a selection of must-reads. To see what other picks are on her dynamic and continually updating list, visit the Schomburg Shop.

For 95 years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has preserved, protected, and fostered a greater understanding of the Black experience through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and scholarship. In response to the uprisings across the globe demanding justice for Black lives, the Schomburg Center has created a Black Liberation Reading List. The 95 titles on the list represent books we and the public turn to regularly as activists, students, archivists, and curators, with a particular focus on books by Black authors and those whose papers we steward.

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