Black History Month 2025: Library Resources

In honor of Black History Month, the Markus Library Staff have compiled a list of our resources and featured holdings related to racial justice and the contributions of Black people to scientific research, both historical and present-day.

DEI Book Collection

The Markus Library hosts a growing collection of fiction and non-fiction books related to social and racial justice in academia and beyond. The collection is located in the Main Reading Room, to the left of the Circulation Desk. If you have suggestions for additions to this collection, please contact markuslibrary@rockefeller.edu.

Featured books:

- Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
- Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Reproductive injustice : racism, pregnancy, and premature birth by Dána-Ain Davis
- Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement by John Lewis
- African American women chemists by Jeannette E. Brown
- Making Black Scientists by Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen
- Sisters in science : conversations with black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science by Diann Jordan
- Dismantling race in higher education : racism, whiteness and decolonising the academy by Jason Arday and Heidi Safia Mirza

WISeR Feminist Book Collection

Fiction and non-fiction book collection featuring books related to feminism, compiled in collaboration with WISeR. The collection is located in the 2nd Floor Lounge of the Markus Library.

Featured fiction books:

- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Featured non-fiction books:

- Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- How we get free : Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Sister outsider : essays and speeches by Audre Lorde

Note: if you wish to borrow books from the Markus Library, you must be assigned a barcode by a Markus Library staff member. Contact markuslibrary@rockefeller.edu or call x8904.