{"id":17718,"date":"2022-02-14T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=17718"},"modified":"2022-02-14T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T23:21:08","slug":"what-books-do-you-recommend-for-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/02\/14\/what-books-do-you-recommend-for-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"What books do you recommend for Black History Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW021422-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW021422-1.jpg\" alt=\"What books do you recommend for Black History Month?\" class=\"wp-image-17697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW021422-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW021422-1-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>What books do you recommend for Black History Month?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, Chad Williams, a history professor at Brandeis, began the historian-crowd-sourced #CharlestonSyllabus, which in just a few days amassed several hundred titles. Here they all are in a WorldCat List: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-charleston.\">bit.ly\/BC-charleston.<\/a> Some more recent titles worth pursuing: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Disordered Cosmos, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; We Do This Till We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba; Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram Kendi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, Chad Williams, a history professor at Brandeis, began the historian-crowd-sourced #CharlestonSyllabus, which in just a few days amassed several hundred titles. Here they all are in a WorldCat List: bit.ly\/BC-charleston. Some more recent titles worth pursuing: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/02\/14\/what-books-do-you-recommend-for-black-history-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What books do you recommend for Black History Month?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17736,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17718\/revisions\/17736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}