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Black History Month 2024 - African Americans and the Arts

"The theme for Black History Month 2024 focuses on “African Americans and the Arts”. This theme is infused with African, Caribbean, and Black American lived experiences. In the fields of visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and other forms of cultural expression the African-American influence has been paramount. African-American artists have used art to preserve history and community memory as well as for empowerment. Artistic and cultural movements such as the New Negro, Black Arts, Black Renaissance, hip-hop, and Afrofuturism, have been led by people of African descent and set the standard for popular trends around the world. In 2024, we examine the varied history and life of African-American arts and artisans."

East Lansing Public Library

29 items

  • Afrofuturism

    a History of Black Futures

    Book, 2023Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2023] — 305.89 AFR
  • Black Opera

    History, Power, Engagement

    André, Naomi Adele,
    Book, 2018Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018. — 782.1 AND 2018
  • Book, 2020New York : One World, [2020] — 305.89 BLA 2020
  • Black Archives

    a Photographic Celebration of Black Life

    Cherlise, Renata,
    Book, 2023Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2023. — 779.2 CHE
  • Dapper Dan

    Made in Harlem : a Memoir

    Day, Daniel R.,
    Book, 2019New York : Random House, [2019] — B DAY 2019
  • Mama Africa!

    How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope With Her Song

    Erskine, Kathryn
    Book, 2017New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2017] — J B ERSKINE
  • By Her Own Design

    a Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

    Huguley, Piper,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — FICTION HUGULEY 2022
  • God Save the Queens

    the Essential History of Women in Hip-hop

    Iandoli, Kathy,
    Book, 2019New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — 782.42 IAN 2019
  • Fashion Killa

    How Hip-hop Revolutionized High Fashion /

    Krishnamurthy, Sowmya,
    Book, 2023New York : Gallery Books, 2023. — 306.48 KRI
  • The Future Is the Beginning

    the Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley

    Marley, Bob
    Book, 2012New York : Harmony Books, c2012. — 782.42 MAR 2012
  • Kill 'em and Leave

    Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

    McBride, James, 1957-
    Book, 2016New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2016] — B BROWN 2016
  • Illustrated Black History

    Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen

    McCalman, George,
    Book, 2022New York : HarperOne, 2022. — 920 MCC 2022
  • Of Poetry & Protest

    From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

    Book, 2016New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 811 OF
  • Book, 2021London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2021. — 709.22 POW
  • Queen Bey

    a Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

    Book, 2019New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019. — 782.42 QUE 2019
  • Chasing Me to My Grave

    An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

    Rembert, Winfred,
    Book, 2021New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2021] — B REMBERT 2021