Books about Black Youth
101 Things Every Boy/Young Man of Color Should Know
LaMarr Darnell Shields, ISBN: 0965902862
12 Things Every Black Boy Needs to Know
Darrell Starks and Clifford Adkia Trumble, Jr., ISBN: 097866700X
33 Things the Young Black Professional Male Needs to Know to Aviod Relationship Disaster
Jason R. Payne, ISBN: 1934248568
A Brighter Day: How Parents Can Help African American Youth
Gail Thompson, ISBN: 1935521748
A Youth’s Look at Black and Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places
Dudley Edmondson, ISBN: 1591931754
African American Men in Crisis: Proactive Strategies for Urban Youth (Children of Poverty)
Wesley E. Pullman, ISBN: 0815321414
African American Student’s College Guide: Your One-Stop Resource for Choosing the Right College, Getting in, and Paying the Bill
Isaac Black, ISBN: 0471295523
African-American Teens Discuss Their Schooling Experiences
Gail L. Thompson, ISBN: 0897898435
African-American Youth: Their Social and Economic Status in the United States
Ronald L. Taylor, ISBN: 0275948862
Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
Elijah Anderson, ISBN: 081222017X
Am I The Last Virgin?: Ten African American Reflections on Sex and Love
Malik Yusef, ISBN: 068981254X
Ancient Black Youth and Elders Reborn: Anthology of the Poetry, Short Stories, Oral Histories and Deeper Thoughts of African American Youth and Elders
Linda Cousins, ISBN: 0930569008
Angry Black White Boy: A Novel
Adam Mansbach, ISBN: 1400054877
Beautylicious!: The Black Girl’s Guide to the Fabulous Life
Jenyne M. Raines, ISBN: 0767911105
Being Real: The Student-Teacher Relationship and African-American Male Delinquency
Camile Gibson, ISBN: 1931202311
Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
Michael Eric Dyson, ISBN: 0195115694
Black Adolescence: Current Issues and Annotated Bibliography
Velma McBride Murry, et al., ISBN: 0816190801
Black and White Styles of Youth Ministry: Two Congregations in America
William R. Myers, ISBN: 082980868X
Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles
Janice E. Hale-Benson and Asa G. Hilliard III, ISBN: 0801833833
Black Christians’ Tragedies: An analysis of Black youth and their church
Benjamin Paul Perkins, ISBN: 0682475106
Black Demons: The Media’s Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)
Dennis Rome, ISBN: 0275972445
Black English and the Education of Black Children and Youth
ISBN: 0939242001
Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (Mediated Youth)
Ruth Nicole Brown, ISBN: 1433100746
Black in School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture
Shawn A. Ginwright, ISBN: 0807744328
Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks, ISBN: 0896084337
Black Man Emerging
Joseph L. Whites and James H. Cones III, ISBN: 041592572X
Black on Black: Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience
Celeste Fisher, ISBN: 0810857227
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Patricia Hill Collins, ISBN: 0415930995
Black Students/ Middle Class Teachers
Jawanza Kunjufu,ISBN: 0913543810
Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Black Literature and Culture Series)
Houston A. Baker, Jr., ISBN: 0226035212
Black Theology and Youths at Risk
David D. Mitchell, ISBN: 0820440795
Black Treasure: The Youth of Africa in a Changing World
Basil Mathews, ASIN: B00086P286
Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Pain and Power
Kristal Brent Zook, ISBN: 1560257903
Black Young Adults – How to Reach Them, What to Teach Them: Strengthening the Black Church and Community by Educating Black Young Adults
Walter Arthur McCray, ISBN: 0933176090
Black Youth in Crisis
Ernest Cashmore and Barry Troyna, ISBN: 0043620531
Black Youth in Crisis: Facing the Future
David Everatt and Elinor Sisulu, ISBN: 0869754297
Black Youth Matters: Transitions from School to Success (Critical Youth Studies)
Cecile Wright, ISBN: 0415995124
Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy (Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations)
John Solomos, ISBN: 0521423813
Black Youth, Rastafarianism, and the Identity Crisis in Britain
Len Garrison, ISBN: 0906626005
Black Youths, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
Janice Joseph, ISBN: 0275949095
Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High
Singnithia Fordham, ISBN: 0226257134
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Vol. 1
bell hooks, ISBN: 0805055126
Breaking the Chaings of Psychological Slavery
Nai’im Akbar, ISBN: 0935257055
Can the Black Church Save Youth Black America? Closing the Educational Achievement Gap
Dr. Temeca L. Richardson, ISBN: 0978956001
Children and Youth Say So! Skits, Recitations, and Drill Team Poetry for Black History Month, Kwanzaa, and Other Celebrations in the Church
Abingdon Press, ISBN: 0687053536
Children in Social Peril: A Community Vision for Preserving Family Care of African American Children and Youths
Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, et al., ISBN: 0878686851
Children of Color: Psychological Interventions with Culturally Diverse Youth
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, ISBN: 0787962686
Come on Philly, We Can Do Better: One Counselor’s Disturbing Experiences in a Philadelphia Middle School
Julius A. Williams III, ISBN: 098435770X
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Anne Moody, ISBN: 0440314887
Comparative Youth Culture: The Sociology of Youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures in America, Britain and Canada
Mike Brake, ISBN: 0415051088
Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, and Gender Among Urban Youth (Teaching for Social Justice)
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine, ISBN: 0807739782
Counseling the Culturally Different Black Youth (Counseling Youth Series)
Elsie Smith, ISBN: 0675090695
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (Series)
Jawanza Kunjufu, ISBN: 0913543969
Creative Meetings, Bible Lessons, & Worship Ideas for Youth Groups
Youth Specialties, ISBN: 0310220262
Critical Issues in Educating African American Youth (A Talk with Jawanza)
Jawanza Kunjufu, ISBN: 0913543144
Cultural patterns and interactions among African American male adolescents: How they can be misconceived by European American youth workers and educators
Michelle Phillips, ISBN: 0578012448
Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany
Hans J. Massaquoi, ISBN: 0060959614
Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children
Jauanza Kunjufu, ISBN: 0913543012
Disproportionate Confinement of African American Juvenile Delinquents
John K. Mooradian, ISBN: 1931202699
Do Something Different This Sunday: Biblical Comedies and Dramas for Youth and Adults
ASIN: B0006QUCKG
Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Kai Wright, ISBN: 0807079685
Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Bridging Teen Worldviews and Christian Truth
Walt Mueller, ISBN: 0830833374
Extreme Teen Bible: New King James Version
Thomas Nelson, ISBN: 0785255559
Family Structure and Peer Group Affiliation as Related to Attitudes about Male-Female Relations Among Black Youth
Roger Harvey Rubin, ISBN: 0882474480
Feminism and Youth Culture: Second Edition
Angela McRobbie and Angela McRobbie, ISBN: 0415927552
Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church
Wesley Black, Chap Clark, Malan Nel, and Mark H. Senter, ISBN: 0310234050
Friendship, Cliques, and Gangs: Young Black Men Coming of Age in Urban America
Greg Dimitriadis, ISBN: 0807743852
From Brotherhood to Manhood: How Black Men Rescue Their Relationships and Dreams from the Invisibility Syndrome
Anderson J. Franklin, ISBN: 0471352942
Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence and Youth
Henry A. Giroux, ISBN: 0415915775
Generating Genius: Black Boys in Search of Love, Ritual and Schooling
Tony Sewell, ISBN: 1858563682
Get By: A Survival Guide for Black Gay Youth
Jonathan W. Jones, ISBN: 1419623338
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Jody Miller, ISBN: 0814756980
Girlstrong!: A Spiritual Journey of Growing and Reconnecting with Our Daughters
Ronneal Matthews, ISBN: 1434831825
Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language
H. Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, Alastair Pennycook, ISBN: 0805862854
Good News among Black Youth
Robert S. Wood and Gayle E. Wood, ASIN: B0006Y4ZCY
Growing Up Black: A Resource Manual for Black Youth
Silvera, ISBN: 0920813771
Growing Up Black: Teens Write About African American Identity
Youth Communication, ISBN: 1933939087
Growing up in the Black Belt: Negro Youth in the Rural South
Charles Johnson, ASIN: B0018GR4FY
Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890-1940
Jennifer Ritter
house, ISBN: 0807856843
H.Y.P.E.: Healing Young People Thru Empowerment
Aida McClellan Winfrey, ISBN: 1934155209
Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth
Useni Eugene Perkins and Morris F. X., Jr. Jeff, ISBN: 0883782243
Herstory: Black Female Rites of Passage
Mary C. Lewis, ISBN: 091354308X
Hooked on Hoops: Understanding Black Youths’ Blind Devotion to Basketball
Kevin McNutt, ISBN: 0913543764
How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality
L. Brunius, ISBN: 0815332351
How to Grow Up Young, Black and Male in America: (And a few other things everyone else is afriad to tell you)
Clarence Fraiser, ISBN: 143430731X
How to Teach Math to Black Students
Shahid Muhammad, ISBN: 0913543977
If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality
Rebecca de Schweinitz, ISBN: 0807832359
Introduction to Youth Ministry
Wesley Black, ISBN: 0805418695
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation
David Wilson, ISBN: 0815630808
Is Bill Cos Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Michael Eric Dyson, ISBN: 0465017207
It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
M.K. Asante Jr., ISBN: 0312373260
Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence
James C. Howell, ISBN: 0761903739
Kaffir Boy the True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane, ASIN: B000JWEAHI
Keep It Real: Working with Today’s Black Youth
Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, ISBN: 0687497027
Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White
Prudence L. Carter, ISBN: 0195168623
Labor Force Participation of Black and White Youth (Research in business economics and public policy)
Donald R. Williams, ISBN: 0835718042
Learning to Survive: Black Youth Look for Education and Hope
Atron A. Gentry and Carolyn C. Peelle, ISBN: 0865692610
Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children
Janice E. Hale, V. P. Franklin, and Walter Allen Bailey, ISBN: 0801867762
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Gregory Howard Williams, ISBN: 0452275334
Literacy in African American Communities
Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, and Karen E. Pollock, ISBN: 0805834028
Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Health Sexuality
St. Stephen’s Community House, ISBN: 1550379542
Making It: Black Youth, Racism and Career Aspirations in a Big City
Carl E. James, ISBN: 0869754297
Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League
Horace A Porter, ISBN: 0877458359
Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora: Inner City Youth and the New Global Frontier
Charles Green, ISBN: 0742502694
Mathematics Success and Failure Among African-American Youth: The Roles of Sociohistorical Context, Community Forces, School Influence, and Individual Agency
Danny Bernard Martin, ISBN: 0805861424
Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students
Horace Hall, ISBN: 1578864305
Mixed: My Life in Black and White
Angela Nissel, ISBN: 0345481143
Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona, ISBN: 0807009490
Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
Jawanza Kunjufu, ISBN: 0913543020
Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl
Kitty Oliver, ISBN: 0813190916
New Arenas for Community Social Work Practice with Urban Youth
Melvin Delgado, ISBN: 023111463X
Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Green, Geoffrey L. Greif, ISBN: 195126424
Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice | Revised Edition (Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global…and Transdisciplinary Perspectives)
Greg Dimitriadis, ISBN: 1433105381
Picture Me Rollin’
Black Artemis, ISBN: 0451215133
Plain Talk – Volume 1
Corey Washington, ISBN: 144159342X
Profiles in Black: Phat Facts for Teens
Marvin A. McMickle, Efrem Smith, and Jean Alicia Elster, ISBN: 0817015086
Project Butterfly: Caterpillar Training Guide: Supporting Young Women and Girls of African descent Through the Transitions of Life
Niambi Jaha-echols, ISBN: 0972085424
Putting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS
Renee T. White, ISBN: 084768587X
Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans
Marvin D. Free, Jr., ISBN: 1881798550
Racism in College Athletics: The African American Athlete’s Experience
Dana D. Brooks and Ronald C. Althouse, ISBN: 1885693192
Rap and the Eroticizing of Black Youth
Michael Porter (forthcoming April 2007), ISBN: 1934155020
Reading for Children Without – Our Disadvantaged Youth (Reading Aids Series)
Gertrude Whipple and Millard H. Black, ASIN: B000JWG6KW
Readings on Black Children and Youth
Lula Beatty, ISBN: 9997894847
Real Deal: A Spiritual Guide for Black Teen Girls
Billie Montgomery Cook, ISBN: 0817014586
Real Role Models
Joah Spearman, ISBN: 0292718322
Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern, ISBN: 1879639866
Reconstructing ‘Dropout’: A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students’ Disengagement from School
George J. Sefa Dei, Josephine Mazzuca, Elizabeth McIsaac, ISBN: 080208060X
Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
June Cross, ISBN: 067088555X
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
Kelly Brown Douglas, ISBN: 1570752427
Smart and Sassy: The Strength of Inner-City Black Girls
Joyce West Stevens, ISBN: 0195121643
Something Rhythm, Sometimes Blues: Young African Americans on Love, Relationships, Sex, and the Search for Mr. Right
Taigi Smith, ISBN: 1580050964
Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Tom Sancton, ISBN: 159051243X
Souls Looking Back: Portraits of Growing Up Black
Tracy L. Robinson, Robert Kilkenny, Janie V. Ward, ISBN: 0415920620
Special Events for Youth Groups
Youth Specialties, ISBN: 0310220408
Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in 19th century American (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Wilma King, ISBN: 0253211867
Strange People with Books: A Twenty Year Follow Up of Students from a Summer Enrichment Program for Low Income Rural Black Youth from South Carolina
Nancy Gall-Clayton and Vernell Lee, ISBN: 096270640X
Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms
Venus E. E. Evans-Winters, ISBN: 0820471038
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Natasha Tarpley, ISBN: 0807009296
The African-American Male: An Annotated Bibliography
Jacob U. Gordon, ISBN: 0313306567
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities
Claire E. Alexander, ISBN: 0198279825
The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race
Bernard Headley, ISBN: 0809323192
The Black Adolescent Parent (Child & Youth Services Series: No.)
Stanly F. Battle, ISBN: 086656554X
The Black Youth Employment Crisis (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)
Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer, ISBN: 0226261646
The Boys of My Youth
Jo Ann Beard, ISBN: 0316085251
The Context of Youth Violence: Resilience, Risk, and Protection
Jack M. Richman and Mark W. Fraser, ISBN: 0275967247
The Education of Black Children and Youths: A Framework for Educational Excellence
Samuel L. Banks, ISBN: 093513204X
The Estrangement of Black Male Youth: from a teacher’s perspective
Jerald McNair, ISBN: 1411662628
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
Bakari Kitwana, ISBN: 0465029795
The Job Crisis for Black Youth by Sar A. Taggart
Robert Levitan, ASIN: B000IG2888
The Kaleidoscope of a Black Youth
John H. Jackson, ISBN: 143630699X
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma
Alex Kotlowitz, ISBN: 038547721X
The Real Deal: A Spiritual Guide for Black Teen Girls
Billie Montgomery Cook, ISBN: 0817014586
The State of Black Youth in Pittsburgh: Perspectives on Young African Americans in the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
Ph. D. Major Albert Mason; Ralph L. Bangs, ASIN: B000EHJMW6
Ties That Bind: Youth and Drugs in a Black Community
Kojo A. Dei, ISBN: 1577661990
Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black and Blue (Women & Therapy)
Carolyn M. West, Ph.D., ISBN: 0789019949
Violent and Non-Violent Disputes Involving Gang Youth
Lorine A. Hughes, ISBN: 1593320981
Voices of African-American Teen Fathers: I’m Doing What I Got to Do
Angelia M. Paschal, Ph.D., ISBN: 0789027372
Voices of the Talented Tenth: Values of Young Black Males in Higher Education
Odell Horne Jr., ISBN: 0761836373
Wake Up Young Black Males: Life is What You Make It
Steve Johnson, ISBN: 1592321143
What it Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
David L. Marcus, ISBN: 0618772022
When Tomorrow Comes: Thoughts, Reflections and Humorous Anecdotes for Today’s Black Youth
Sam Howard Hughes, ISBN: 1420872990
White Talk, Black Talk: Inter-racial Friendship and Communication amongst Adolescents (Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations)
Roger Hewitt, ISBN: 0521338247
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Beverly Daniel Tatum, ISBN: 0465083617
Why Pick on Me?: School Exclusion and Black Youth
Maud Blair, ISBN: 1858562317
Working with Black Youth: Opportunities for Christian Ministry
Charles R. Foster and Grant S. Shockley, ISBN: 0687461960
Wrong, Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
John A. Rich MD PHD, ISBN: 0801893631
Young Adult Fiction by African American Writers, 1968-1993
Debor Kutenplon, ISBN: 0815308736
Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, ISBN: 0865691800
Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa, 1990-1994: Discourses of Participation and the Politics of Identity in South Africa
Sibusisiwe Nombuso Dlamini, ISBN: 0802039111
Youth Culture in a Postmodern World
Jonathan S. Epstein, ISBN: 1557868514
Youth Ministry That Transforms
Merton P. Strommen, Karen Jones, and Dave Rahn, ISBN: 031023820X