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February is Black History Month! Have you recently read a book by a black author? DM us with the title, author, and a few sentences on why you liked the book. You can be featured in our display highlighting the works of black authors at the library!

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Happy Holidays!

Every year, the library sets up the "bookmas" tree. Stop by to relax, study, and grab a snack!

We loved the plot ideas you shared with us! Stop in to the NaNoWriMo space to add your word count goal for this month!

Did you know the library used to be in what is now Alumni Hall and the Centrum? Swipe to see pics from the 60s and 70s!

Loving the resources on display at the CCEI Juneteenth celebration!

Pearson can’t wait to get back in the library, but in the meanwhile, they’re all dressed up for PRIDE. 🏳️‍🌈

Ebook available

Coming Out Stories
by Emma Goswell & Sam Walker 

Coming Out Stories will take you to one the most important moments in many people’s lives.
It will perch you on sofas in suburban sitting rooms, stand you in front of officials’ desks, put you at the centre of a crowd in a noisy classroom, everywhere where these conversations have happened.
It doesn’t even matter if you haven’t had a conversation like this yourself, or indeed ever plan to. Everyone can recognise the innate human desire to love and be loved, and that’s what these stories are about.

Text Attribution: Q***rlit.co.uk
Image: Book cover with title in rainbow lettering

Le***an, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Q***r (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In the United States the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as "Gay Pride Day," but the actual day was flexible. In major cities across the nation the "day" soon grew to encompass a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.

Text Attribution: Library of Congress
Image: LGBTQI+ flag

Pearson Library pop up on Wednesdays 8:30-10:30 am. Friendly faces, assistance, and swag. Come on by!!!

Please note that during this period, Pearson Library services can be accessed as follows:
Virtual Services: We encourage you to reach out to the library via email to make use of our virtual services, available 24/7. See the library website in our profile.
Pick-up Services: If you need physical materials (books, dvds, etc.) please schedule an appointment for pick-up by contacting the library circulation staff.
Research Assistance: If you need research assistance, please either make an online appointment with a librarian, or  come to the Wednesday drop-in sessions from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Feel free to reach out to the library for further details regarding location (or other questions).

Congratulations Graduates from the Pearson Library!

New Book

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
by Karlos K. Hill

On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people, mostly African Americans.

Historian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and after the massacre, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. ~ University of Oklahoma Press

New Book

In Lean Semesters, Sekile M. Nzinga argues that the corporatized university—long celebrated as a purveyor of progress and opportunity—actually systematically indebts and disposes of Black women's bodies, their intellectual contributions, and their potential en masse. Insisting that "shifts" in higher education must recognize such unjust dynamics as intrinsic, not tangential, to the operation of the neoliberal university, Nzinga draws on candid interviews with thirty-one Black women at various stages of their academic careers. Their richly varied experiences reveal why underrepresented women of color are so vulnerable to the compounded forms of exploitation and inequity within the late capitalist terrain of this once-revered social institution.
~John Hopkins Press

New Book

Black American Portraits

Edited with text by Christine Y. Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews

Another art book, this time from an installation at LACMA: “Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black American Portraits chronicles the ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves in their own eyes… Countering a visual culture that often demonizes Blackness and fetishizes the spectacle of Black pain, these images center love, abundance, family, community and exuberance. Black American Portraits depicts Black figures in a range of mediums such as painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, mixed media and time-based media. In addition to work by artists of African descent, Black American Portraits includes several works by artists of other backgrounds who have exemplified a thoughtfulness about, sensitivity toward and commitment to Black artists, communities, histories and subjects.”
-Publishers Weekly

New Book

In the Black Fantastic
by Ekow Eshun

A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and the speculative, it recycles and reconfigures elements of fable, folklore, science fiction, spiritual traditions, ceremonial pageantry, and the legacies of Afrofuturism. In works that span photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, graphic arts, music and architecture, In the Black Fantastic shows how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender and identity.
—MIT Press

New Book

Her Word Is Bond
Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny
by Cristalle "Psalm One" Bowen

Her Word Is Bond is a long overdue and necessary memoir about not only fighting other people's expectations, assumptions and projections about who you are while constantly feeling judged, marginalized, tokenized, exploited and under represented. Psalm One is brutally honest about the struggles of just trying to function in a male dominated, black & white binary world when she should've been given the support, space and freedom to grow and thrive.”

—Dart Adams, Journalist, Historian/Researcher and Author of Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: The Book of Dart and Instead We Became Evil: A True Story of Survival & Perseverance

New Book at Pearson Library

Elite Capture:
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s book is worth sitting with and absorbing. While critically examining what happens when elites hijack our critiques and terminologies for their own interests, Elite Capture acutely reminds us that building power globally means we think and build outside of our internal confines. That is when we have the greatest possibility at worldmaking.”

-Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of “Stamped from the Beginning” and “How to Be an Antiracist”

New Book

Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, by Monique Kornell examines the inventive ways anatomy has been presented from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century, including an animated co**se displaying its own body for study, anatomized antique sculpture, spectacular life-size prints, delicate paper flaps, and 3-D stereoscopic photographs. Drawn primarily from the vast holdings of the Getty Research Institute, the over 150 striking images, which range in media from woodcut to neon, reveal the uncanny beauty of the human body under the skin.
-Porchlight Books

New Book

Q***r Icons and Their Cats by Alison Nastasi & PJ Nastasi

“In these purr-ecious photographs, you'll get to see your heroes in unguarded moments expressing love for their pets. This collection of images will bring joy to any cat lover's heart.” Bookshop.org

Perfect for:

* LGBTQIA+ cat lovers and the people who shop for them
* Anyone interested in learning more about influential q***r figures--and their pets!

Available at Pearson Library

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New books! We’ve been addressing the imbalance of diverse authors and voices in the library. Each month new titles are being purchased! If you have a recommendation, let us know!

Invitation to the Latinx Affinity Group to add to your altar in the Pearson Library!