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== The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 must-read books to understand our city, by ''Cassie Owens'' == | == The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 must-read books to understand our city, by ''Cassie Owens'' == | ||
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#[https://www.amazon.com/Life-Black-Gay-Anthology/dp/0932870732 In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, ed. '''Joseph Beam'''] | #[https://www.amazon.com/Life-Black-Gay-Anthology/dp/0932870732 In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, ed. '''Joseph Beam'''] | ||
#[https://www.amazon.com/Code-Street-Decency-Violence-Moral/dp/0393320782/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486492080&sr=1-1&keywords=Code+of+the+Street Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, '''Elijah Anderson'''] | #[https://www.amazon.com/Code-Street-Decency-Violence-Moral/dp/0393320782/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486492080&sr=1-1&keywords=Code+of+the+Street Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, '''Elijah Anderson'''] | ||
== See Also == | |||
*[[Tiffany M. Gill - Beauty Shop Politics]] | |||
[[Category:About-African_Americans]] | [[Category:About-African_Americans]] | ||
[[Category:About-Black | [[Category:About-Black History]] | ||
[[Category:About-Philadelphia]] | [[Category:About-Philadelphia]] | ||
[[Category:Issue-African_Americans]] | [[Category:Issue-African_Americans]] | ||
[[Category:Is-Bibliography]] | |||
[[Category:Is-Article]][[Category:About-Books]] | |||
[[Category:Issue-Great_Migration]] | |||
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The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 must-read books to understand our city, by Cassie Owens
Philly has made a lot of black history. Nearly 690,000 African Americans live in the city.
- And so, with this large and longstanding community, there’s no shortage of institutions to honor and stars to remember during Black History Month.
- So if you wanted to get a strong grasp of this history, what books should you read?
Links to buy the books:
- The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois
- Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, Kali N. Gross
- Saved and Sanctified: Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia, Deidre Helen Crumbley
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Journey of John W. Mosley, Charles L. Blockson
- Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, Lawrence Otis Graham
- A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia, Lisa Levenstein
- Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love, James Wolfinger
- Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, Matthew J. Countryman
- The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, Matthew F. Delmont
- Joy Ride! The Stars and Stories of Philly’s Famous Uptown Theater, Kimberly C. Roberts
- In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology, ed. Joseph Beam
- Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, Elijah Anderson