Library Guides: African American Research & Archival Collections in the Pacific Northwest Collection: Books and other Lilbrary Materials

List of Books in UW Libraries (sorted by author)

Fighting academic repression and neoliberal education : resistance, reclaiming, organizing, and black lives matter in education by Anthony J. Nocella II and Erik Juergensmeyer, editors This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and activists from across the world, the fifteen chapters guide readers through a strategic method of understanding the academic industrial complex and corporate education in the twenty-first century.
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Stacks LC191.9 .F54 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Teaching for Black lives by Dyan Watson, editor. Jesse Hagopian, editor. Wayne Au, editor. A compilation of essays and articles that provide support and resources for educators to create equitable learning spaces for Black students.
Call Number: multiple UW library branches
Publication Date: 2018
Terra Northwest : interpreting people and place by edited by David H. Stratton. "Eleven experts from the United States and Canada explore society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine European coastal exploration, American and Canadian comparative development, political and constitutional foundations, economic globalization; gendered and class history, and perspectives on the region's Native American, black, Asian American, and Hispanic citizenry. Included are contributions by Susan Armitage, Kenneth S. Coates, James M. Dolliver, Gordon Hirabayashi, Alvin M. Josephy Jr., Howard R. Lamar, John McClelland Jr., E. Mark Moreno, Quintard Taylor, David J. Weber, and Donald Worster. Terra Northwest continues the Sherman and Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Lecture Series of publications examining essential aspects of Northwest history.
Call Number: mulitple UW library branches
Publication Date: ©2007 Pullman, Wash. : WSU Press/Washington State University Press
The rising tide of color : race, state violence, and radical movements across the Pacific by edited by Moon-Ho Jung. Scope and content: "The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too often present the U.S. state as a benevolent force in struggles against white supremacy, especially in the South. Featuring a wide range of scholars specializing in American history and ethnic studies, this powerful collection of essays highlights historical moments and movements on the Pacific Coast and across the Pacific to reveal a different story of race and politics. From labor and anticolonial activists around World War I and multiracial campaigns by anarchists and communists in the 1930s to the policing of race and sexuality after World War II and transpacific movements against the Vietnam War, The Rising Tide of Color brings to light histories of race, state violence, and radical movements that continue to shape our world in the twenty-first century. Moon-Ho Jung is the Walker Family Endowed Professor and associate professor of history at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane; "This brilliant volume is incisive, intellectually generative, and analytically rigorous. The Rising Tide of Color reframes our understanding of race and social movements by centering the Pacific Coast"--Diane Fujino, professor of Asian American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2014 Seattle, WA : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, in association with University of Washington Press
African American women confront the West : 1600-2000 by edited by Quintard Taylor, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. Part I. Introduction -- The West of African American women, 1600-2000 / Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor 3 -- African American women in Western history : past and prospect / Glenda Riley 22 -- Part II. The Spanish-Mexican period -- Isabel de Olvera Arrives in New Mexico 31 -- To be black and female in the Spanish Southwest : toward a history of African women on New Spain's far Northern frontier / Dedra S. McDonald 32 -- Part III. The Antebellum West -- A Texas slave's letter to her husband, 1862 55 -- Mining a mythic past : the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant / Lynn M. Hudson 56 -- A voice from the oppressed to the friends of humanity 71 -- Rights of passage : gendered-rights consciousness and the quest for freedom, San Francisco, California, 1850-1870 / Barbara Y. Welke 73 -- Part IV. The Post-Civil war era -- "Anxious foot soldiers" : Sacramento's black women and education in Nineteenth-century California / Susan Bragg 97 -- Willianna Hickman's Nicodemus saga 117 -- Homesteading on the plains : the Ava Speese Day story 119 -- Women of the Great Falls African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870-1910 / Peggy Riley 122 -- Kate D. Chapman describes blacks in Yankton, Dakota territory 140 -- A black woman on the Montana frontier 142 -- "Is there no blessing for me? : Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a Mormon African American woman / Ronald G. Coleman 144 -- Part V. The Early Twentieth century -- "The mountains were free and we loved them" : Dr. Ruth Flowers of Boulder, Colorado / Susan Armitage 165 -- Nettie J. Asberry : African American Club woman in the Pacific Northwest 178 -- Susie Revels Cayton, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, and the campaign for social justice in the Pacific Northwest / Quintard Taylor 189 -- Marcus Garvey : a Seattle woman remembers 205 -- "Try being a black woman!" : Jobs in Denver, 1900-1970 / Moya B. Hansen 207 -- Hattie McDaniel wins an Oscar 228 -- From Peola to Carmen : Fredi Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, and Hollywood's portrayal of the tragic mulatto / Alicia I. Rodriquez-Estrada 230 -- Part VI. World War II -- Lyn Childs confronts a racist act 251 -- Etta Germany writes to the President 253 -- Women made the community : African American migrant women and the cultural transformation of the San Francisco East Bay area / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo 254 -- "Eight dollars a day and working in the shade" : an oral history of African American migrant women in the Las Vegas Gaming industry / Claytee D. White 276 -- Part VII. The Civil Rights era -- Lulu B. White and the integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 / Merline Pitre 293 -- Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and the U.S. Supreme Court 309 -- Lucinda Todd and the invisible petitioners of Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas / Cheryl Brown Henderson 312 -- Clara Luper and the Civil Rights movement In Oklahoma City, 1958-1964 / Linda Williams Reese 328 -- Elaine Brown : Black Panther 344 -- Black radicalism in 1960s California : women in the Black Panther Party / Jane Rhodes 346.
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Stacks E185.925 .A45 2003
Publication Date: multiple UW branch libraries
Ivan King Northwest Black heritage & Democratic Socialism collection. by Ivan King, 1934- creator. Scope and content: Clippings, government documents, organizational materials, correspondence, ephemera, and other materials, which served as research and background files for King, to support his work activities with the Seattle Urban League, the Action Education Center's African American History Project at CAMP; and, planning and evaluation designs for the Seattle Model City Program (SMCP), the Seattle Income Maintenance Experiment, the Seattle Human Rights Department. Subject files, correspondence, clippings, meeting notes, publications and other materials relating to socialism and the socialist party in the Pacific Northwest and in other parts of the country.
Call Number: mulitple UW library branches
Publication Date: 1900-2005
Black lives, native lands, white worlds : a history of slavery in New England by Jared Hardesty, author In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution.
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Stacks E445.N5 H37 2019
Publication Date: 2019
A good kind of trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée, author After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Stacks PZ7.1.R358 Go 2019
Publication Date: 2019
The Lived Experience of African American Juvenile Parole and Probation Officers in the Pacific Northwest by Lockett, Andre The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and better understand the lived experiences of African American juvenile parole and probation officers in the Pacific Northwest. I conducted semistructured interviews with four African American juvenile parole and probation officers using a transcendental phenomenological framework. This framework was further supported and guided by social identity theory, critical race theory, and person‒organization fit theory. Through detailed semistructured interviews, field notes, and artifacts; honest and thought-provoking insight was gathered about the experiences of African American juvenile parole and probation officers. Furthermore, interview data was coded and analyzed using ATLAS.ti (2020) and during the analysis process, three themes and six subthemes emerged, capturing the essence of the four coresearchers’ lived experiences. These three themes and subthemes uncovered the desire to better support youth and hold them accountable as essential...
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2020 ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
The Portland Black Panthers : empowering Albina and remaking a city by Lucas N. N. Burke, author Combining histories of Portland and its African American community with interviews with former Portland Panthers and other key players, this long-overdue account adds complexity to our understanding of the protracted civil rights movement throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Publication Date: 2016

List of Books in UW Libraries (sorted by author)

African American cinema through Black lives consciousness by Mark A. Reid, editor African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender.
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Stacks PN1995.9.N4 A37 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Becoming a citizen activist : stories, strategies, & advice for changing our world by Nick Licata, author In this smart and powerful book, Licata explains how to get organized, congregate power, and master the tactics for change. Licata's observations on the intricacies of power will empower any activist who wants to make a difference in today's world.
Call Number: multiple UW library branches
Publication Date: 2016
Black emeralds : African American women's political activism and leadership in Seattle, 1941-2000 by Quin'Nita F. Cobbins, author. Abstract: Black women in Seattle have long been major political actors and leaders in their communities although they comprised a very small population. Throughout the 20th century, they engaged in a never-ending struggle for freedom, equality, and visibility to be recognized as first-class citizens and to make the professed liberal ideals of Seattle a more egalitarian place for blacks to live. Black women boldly entered the spaces of social and political justice on their own terms and sought to challenge urban inequality by changing policies, hearts, and minds in a city that refused to acknowledge it ever had a "race" problem. This dissertation explores their political engagement, resistance strategies, and community-building efforts to demonstrate the many different ways African American women exercised power and agency in a city where they never constituted more than five percent of the population. Through organizations, institutions, businesses, social movements, and other sites of contestation, black women collectively fashioned programs and strategies to manipulate, negotiate, and influence their communities to bring about social change that went beyond electoral participation. This study also extends current scholarship by examining black women's efforts after the 1960s to offer new insights on how their political activism impacted urban western communities in this later period of the 20th century. In the post-Civil Rights era, activist women leaders rose to positions in city and state government through elective and political appointments that provided expanded political and social visibility to the African American community and women. Their leadership and civic work directly created and shaped public policies most critical to women, families, children, and the poor; thus, making significant contributions to Washington State and the Pacific Northwest more broadly.
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2018 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington.
The forging of a black community : Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor, author Quintard Taylor explores the evolution of this community from its first few residents in the 1870s to a population of nearly forty thousand in 1970. With events such as the massive influx of rural African Americans beginning with World War II and the transformation of African American community leadership in the 1960s from an integrationist to a "black power" stance, Seattle both anticipates and mirrors national trends. Thus, the book addresses not only a particular city in the Pacific Northwest but also the process of political change in black America.
Call Number: multiple UW library branches
Publication Date: 1994
In search of the racial frontier : African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 by Quintard Taylor, author Chronicles the role of African-Americans in the history of the American West from 1528 to 1990, discussing their experiences with racism, social relationships with other westerners, and the challenges of everyday life.
Call Number: multiple UW library branches
Publication Date: 1998
A history of blacks in the Pacific Northwest, 1788-1970 by Quintard Taylor, author
Call Number: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Special Collections Pacific NW E185.925 .T39
Publication Date: 1978
Walking on water : Black American lives at the turn of the twenty-first century by Randall Kenan, author In a blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life.
Call Number: multiple UW library branches - online and physical
Publication Date: 1999
The Cayton legacy : an African American family by Richard S. Hobbs, author This book recounts the lives of the Cayton family, a distinguished African American family that played a significant role in U.S. history from the Civil War to the present in Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle
Call Number: multiple UW library branches - online and physical
Publication Date: 2002
Seeking salaam : Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest by Sandra M. Chait Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities. In conversations with more than forty East African immigrants living in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, the author captures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documents how some individuals have been able to transcend the ghosts from the past and extend a tentative hand to their former enemies.
Call Number: mulitple UW library branches
Publication Date: ©2011 Seattle : University of Washington Press
Coping in Isolation: The Experiences of Black Women in White Communities by Terhune, Carol Parker This exploratory study used a critical hermeneutic, which combined Black feminist epistemology and Gadamerian hermeneutics, to understand the experiences of Black middle-class women who relocated to the Pacific Northwest, a predominately White community. Fourteen Black women were interviewed about their experiences living in the Pacific Northwest; specifically, their coping strategies were examined. Although many themes emerged, the interpretive layer of analysis required of a critical hermeneutic methodology offered an understanding of the simultaneous influence of both racism and sexism on their experiences. Findings revealed that the women felt socially and culturally isolated and the need for support networks and positive racial socialization messages was significant. Findings also reinforced the effect of class and the danger of homogenizing Black women's experiences. Participants' recommendations for recruitment and retention are included.
Call Number: online
Publication Date: Journal of Black Studies, March 2008, Vol.38(4), pp.547-564