Juneteenth: Freedom Day Readings and Events
Juneteenth book recommendations
From your friends at the Libraries: a selection of articles, books, and Philadelphia area events to check out this Juneteenth!
Articles
“Antiracist Language Arts Pedagogy Is Incomplete without Black Joy” by Damaris Dunn and Bettina L. Love (Research in the Teaching of English, Nov. 2020)
“Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora” by Andrea Roberts et al (Public Culture, Sept. 2022)
“Juneteenth and Transitional Justice: A National Reckoning” by David Allen Johnson (Chicago Policy Review, June 2021)
“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)
Books
At the Table of Power: Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality by Diane M, Spivey (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise (Ten Speed Press, 2023)
Black Landscapes Matter edited by Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada (University of Virginia Press, 2020)
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora - fictional account of a mother and her daughters during and after the Civil War (Random House, 2021)
The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (Amistad, 2018)
The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L Smith (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer (Temple University Press, 2013)
Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 by Mitch Kachun (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003)
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018)
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (Liveright, 2021)
Shoutin’ in the Fire: an American Epistle by Danté Stewart (Convergent, 2021)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Penguin Press, 2019)
Through the African American Lens by Deborah Willis (National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2014)
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)
What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life edited by Zun Lee and Sophie Hackett (Art Gallery of Ontario and DelMonico Books, 2022)
Events
Freedom on the Main Line, June 17, Noon - 6 pm, Vernon Young Playground in Ardmore, sponsored by Bethel AME Church. Sign up to help with activities!
Guide to Juneteenth Celebrations in Greater Philadelphia in 2023
