Hot February Picks!
February is Black History Month, a time to commemorate African Americans who have changed the world. Celebrating Black History began in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated "Negro History Week." Dr. Woodson, a historian, chose the second week in February because it included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the Bicentennial (200th birthday) of the U.S.A., the week-long observance was extended to the entire month of February in order to have enough time for celebratory programs and activities.
The following books are available for check out at the Health Services Resource Library.
Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
By Rachel Spector
Book Description
Promotes an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Emphasizes the influence of social, political, and demographic changes.
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Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction
Edited by Devon Carbado, Dwight McBride and Donald Weise
Book Description
The editors of this fine paperback original Carbado (law and African American studies, UCLA), Dwight A. McBride (English and African American studies, Northwestern Univ.), and Donald Weise (Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking) here offer an overview of 100 years of African American queer fiction that affirms rather than negates the interconnections among race, gender, and sexuality. All the usual names are here James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, April Sinclair, Alice Walker, etc. but the editors also do a great service in resurrecting lesser-known writers such as Owen Dodson. Whether the 36 authors are represented by a short story or by excerpts from their novels, the selections as a whole show them to be exemplars of "black queer writing."
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The Black Man's Guide to Good Health
By James Reed, Neil Shulman and Charlene Shucker
Book Description
The Quilt tells how in 1987 a small group of volunteers in a San Francisco storefront workshop revivied the old-fashioned notins of the quilt and the quilting bee. Now the largetst on-going community arts project in America.
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The Black Woman's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves
Edited by Evelyn White
Book Description
This volume contains a collection of 41 writings by and for black women about health--physical, emotional and psychological. The contents range from personal essays on how to deal with high blood pressure and memories of incest to a poem posing the question "Have you ever considered suicide?" There are also interviews with midwives and community health advocates, as well as journal passages detailing the challenges of living with lupus.
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Edited by Barbara Smith
Book Description
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminists and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed—or not—since the book was first published.
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Health Issues in the Black Community
Edited by Ronald Braithwaite and Sandra Taylor
Book Description
In twenty-five original chapters, the authors detail how the AIDS epidemic, chemical dependency, cancer, violence, sickle cell anemia, infant mortality, lead poisoning, and other health problems are affecting the black community. Citing the need for innovative health care policies that are culturally sensitive, the authors examine how African Americans can fare better in the health arena by implementing self-determined strategic initiatives. Health Issues in the Black Community discusses such issues as reproductive rights, health policy formulation, and community organization and empowerment. Focusing on how social, environmental, and economic factors influence both psychological and physiological health, this book will serve as a timely and useful resource for health care providers, researchers, educators, students, and policy makers.
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Additional Books:
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Author: hooks, bell
Type: Book
Category: Women's Issues
Black Women's Health Book, The
Author: White, Evelyn C.
Type: Book
Category: Women's Issues
Culture and Weight Consciousness
Author: Nasser, Mervat
Type: Book
Category: Eating Concerns
On the Down Low: A journey into the lives of "straight" black men who sleep with men
Author: King, J.L.
Type: Book
Category: Sexual Orientation
Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women
Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
Type: Book
Category: Women's Issues
Women's Growth in Diversity: More Writings from the Stone Center
Author: Jordan, Judith
Type: Book
Category: Women's Issues
Young, Black, and Male in America
Author: Gibbs, Jewel Taylor
Type: Book
Category: Men's Issues |
