Black History Month 2021 Celebrates - "The Family"

 

It's February when Black History Month has been celebrated since the year 1976.  The theme, according to the (ASALH) Association for the Study of African American Life and History, is the year 2021, the theme is

                    

                      "Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity."

If you wish to research this topic in depth, Logue Library will be a great help.

If you search in the library catalog for The African American Family you will find more than 1,095 results including 718 eBooks and 336 Print books.

Using the search terms The African American Family in the EBSCO search box yields 74,198 results as well.   

If you search in the library catalog for The Black Family you will find more than 186 results including 95 eBooks and 91 Print books.

Using the search terms The Black Family in the EBSCO search box yields 167,000 results as well.                

Selected titles that support this years' theme of the 

African American Family 

The black extended family: by Elmer P. Martin, Joanne Mitchell Martin.  Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books E185.86 .M37

Black working wives : pioneers of the American family revolution by Bart Landry 

Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – BooksHQ536 .L335 2000

7

Black families in therapy: understanding the African American experience

by Nancy Boyd-Franklin    Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books RC451.5 .N4 B69 2003

 

The Black male in America : perspectives on his status in contemporary society.

by Doris Y. Wilkinson, Ronal L. Taylor (Ronald Lewis)     Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books E185.625 .B56

Family properties : race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America

by Beryl Satter      Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books HD7288.76 .U52 C434 200

On the move : a Black family's Western sage   by S.R. Martin (Sennie Rudolph) 

Format:  eBook     Held by Chestnut Hill College Logue Library

 

Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family, from slavery to the

present by Jacqueline Jones      Format:  Print Book and eBook

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books HD6057.5.U5 J66 1985

 

 

African American Psychology: From Africa to America

by Faye Z. Belgrave and Kenneth W. Allison.     Format:  Print Book 

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books E185 . 625 2010

African American Children : Socialization and Development in Families.  by Shirley A. Hill

Format:  eBook     Held by Chestnut Hill College Logue Library

African American Family Life : Ecological and Cultural Diversity.  

by Vonnie C.  McLoyd , Nancy E. Hill and Kenneth A. Dodge      Format:  Print Book

Available Logue Library Main Library Stacks – Books E185.86 .D585 2007

Videos based on this topic:

Glenn Loury - Race in America: The Black Family

 

 

A look at the Black family in the U.S.

 

 

Hill Harper Discusses the African-American Family

 

"Black history is America's history, this year's theme is

 the black family"

 

 

Denzel Washington breaks down why he thinks the black family unit is so crucial

 

Feel free to comment on this blog.

Thank you to the following Logue Librarians with helping me with this blog:

Mary Jo Larkin, SSJ Dean of Library & Information Resources with editing and research for this blog.

Posted by J. Presley, Systems Management Librarian.