As President Monaco shared with the Tufts community on June 6th, this year marks Tufts' third observance of Juneteenth. Staff across the Tufts libraries have brought together information (yes, mostly books, but also some audio and video sources) to situate the historical context of the first Juneteenth celebrations, works by this year's keynote speaker Dr. Jelani Cobb (bio), and some key works of anti-racist theory.
Juneteenth & celebrations
Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2019.
HistoryMakers
Search this database of video oral histories of prominent African Americans to hear about Juneteenth observances celebrated across the country.
Watermelon & Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
New York: Free Press,1996.
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
New York: Anchor Books, 2009.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jelani Cobb
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
New York: New York University Press, 2007.
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
New York: Ecco, 2021.
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
New York: Liverlight Publishers, 2021.
The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress
New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
The Devil & Dave Chappelle & Other Essays
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007.
Theory
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
The Souls of Black Folk
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
History
I was Born in Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Texas
Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 2003.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Boston: Published by Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.