How to Create Your Own African American Library

MANY CULTURES • ONE WORLD

“Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power.”
–DOROTHY L. FEREBEE

Here is the first book ever written to help African Americans build a home library that celebrates the diversity of their culture and heritage. How to Create Your Own African American Library truly does unlock the door to knowledge and power.

With warm and expert commentary, experienced book reviewer and avid reader Dorothy Ferebee reviews and recommends books that will help you to build your own home library. Inside you’ll discover:

Nonfiction: From autobiography to history, including Resistance and Rebellion Against Slavery and the Civil Right Movement.
Fiction: Literature that explores the many facets of the African American life.
Culture and Anthropology: Books that will open doors to new insights on the African American experience.
Children’s books: From picture books to teenage fiction–books that empower children and make them proud of who they are.
Health: Guides that teach you how to take the very best care of yourself, with attention to health issues that affect African Americans.
Plus books on Travel, Music, Poetry, and Special Collections!

Here’s all you need to know to create a mini-university in your own home, one that is open every day to support the highest aspirations of yourself, your children, and their children.

Praise for How to Create Your Own African American Library

“Like a farmer sowing seed, Dorothy Ferebee’s carefully chosen selections for an African American library supply both essential guidance for newcomers to a literature more discussed than read, and the groundwork for delicious debate among avid readers of this genre over the author’s choices.” 
–DERRICK BELL
Author of Ethical Ambition:
Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
and Faces at the Bottom of the Well:
The Permanence of Racism

“Dorothy Ferebee has done the hard work of amassing and categorizing an impressive body of African American works, historical and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, and made them easy to navigate for the reader and collector. Thank goodness someone’s organized this at last.”
–LALITA TADEMY
Author of Cane River