Juneteenth 2024 Suggested Reading

Photo of a display of books on top of a half-height bookcase in Lutnick Library.

Juneteenth suggested readings on display in Lutnick Library, level 2.

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Rachel Hochberg

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June 14, 2024

Join the Libraries in celebrating Juneteenth this year by making use of the resources below, learning how you can show your support, and attending local events! This year's list of resources was compiled by Monica Macarie '26 with the help of Social Sciences Librarian Dee Brown.

Articles:

“When Peace Come”: Teaching the Significance of Juneteenth by Shennette Garrett-Scott, Rebecca Cummings Richardson, Venita Dillard-Allen (2013)
The New Yorker: Growing Up with Juneteenth
“Antiracist Language Arts Pedagogy Is Incomplete without Black Joy” by Damaris Dunn and Bettina L. Love (Research in the Teaching of English, Nov. 2020)
“The Truth about Black Freedom” by Daina Ramey Berry (Atlantic, June 2021)
“When Peace Come: Teaching the Significance of Juneteenth” by Shennette Garrett-Scott , Rebecca Cummings Richardson, and Venita Dillard-Allen (Black History Bulletin, Summer/Fall 2013)
National Geographic Kids: Celebrating Juneteenth

TriCo Suggested Readings:

Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain (2021)
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (2021)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, editor.; Caitlin Roper, editor.; Ilena Silverman, editor.; Jake Silverstein, editor.; The New York Times Company (2021)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1993)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (2021)
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (2015)
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (1999)
The Jemima Code by Toni Tipton-Marton (2015)
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross (2020)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2014)
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)
We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile (2021)