Library collection: Africana Studies

The Cerritos College Library offers an impressive selection of scholarly literature to support your research in Africana Studies. Here are a few notable works from our collection: 

Print Books Available for Borrowing 

• Asante, Molefi Kete. African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Resources. 1996.
• Asante, Molefi Kete. Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. 2003.
• Asante, Molefi Kete. Classical Africa. 1994.
• Asante, Molefi Kete and  Clyde Ledbetter. Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies. 2016.
• Asante, Molefi Kete and Ama Mazama. Encyclopedia of Black Studies. 2005.
• Conyers, James L. Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Africana Phenomena. 2016.
• Hudson-Weems, Clenora. Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. 1990.
• Karenga, Maulana. Introduction to Black Studies (4th edition). 2010.
• Karenga, Maulana. Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture. 1998.
• Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. 2016.
• Maparyan, Layli. The Womanist Idea. 2012. 
• Mazama, Ama. Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future. 2007. 
• Phillips, Layli. The Womanist Reader. 2006. 
• Rabaka, Reiland. Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement. 2022. 
• Rabaka, Reiland. The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea. 2015. 
• Rabaka, Reiland. The Hip Hop Movement: From R & B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation. 2015. 

 

E-Books Available Online via the Cerritos College Library Website 

• Alridge, Derrick P. The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century. 2021
• Asante, Molefi Kete. Culture and Customs of Egypt. 2002.
• Asante, Molefi Kete, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin. The Global Intercultural Communication Reader. 2014. 
• Givens, Jarvis R. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. 2021.
• Horne, Gerald. Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. 2016.
• Karenga, Maulana. Introduction to Black Studies (4th Edition). 2010. 
• Karenga, Maulana. Maat, the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: a Study in Classical African Ethics. 2012.
• McDougal, Serie III. Black Men's Studies: Black Manhood and Masculinities in the U.S. Context. 2020. 
• Preston, Ashley Robertson. Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist. 2023.
• Rabaka, Reiland. Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition, From W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral. 2009.
• Waters, Kristin. Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought. 2021.

 

Scholarly Journals Available Online via the Cerritos College Library Website 

• Black Women, Gender & Families 
  • National Council for Black Studies
• Black Music Research Journal 
  • Fisk University. Institute for Research in Black American Music
• Journal of African American History
  • Association for the Study of African American Life and History 
• Journal of African American Studies 
• Journal of Black Studies
• Western Journal of Black Studies
  • Washington State University Press