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Black History Month

Black History Month, February 1 to March 1, 2022

Books -- Asterisks denote books that reflect the 2022 theme: Black Health & Wellness

Medicalizing Blackness*

In this fascinating medical history, Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.

Workers on Arrival

In his engrossing new history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr. traces black workers' complicated journey from the transatlantic slave trade through the American Century to the demise of the industrial order in the 21st century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women.

The Underground Abductor

Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!