National African American Read-in

Now in its 24th year, the National African American Read-In is sponsored by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English. For more information, visit the NCTE website.

TNCC’s African American Read-In will be on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 12:30 – 1:30 pm in room 229 inside the Library in Wythe Hall. To participate select and read any book by an African-American author and come to the the event on Feb. 26th to share your thoughts and hear about other readers selections.

Selected books by African American authors will be on display for the month of February and available for check out at any time.  If you’d like some ideas, check out this booklist from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Tell us what book(s) you’ve selected and what you thought of them by entering your comments here.

2 thoughts on “National African American Read-in”

  1. I have three books to share today. One is FALLEN ANGELS by Walter Dean Myers. I first read it with my sons when they were in high school and found that Myers is an author that can “hook” teenage boys. Next, I have WE BEAT THE THE STREET, which is the YA version of THE PACT, the story of three African-American males who grew up in projects in New Jersey and made a promise to stay in school to become doctors. Despite the obstacles they face, they completed their education and two are physicans and one is a dentist. Finally, I selected Malcolm Gladwell’s BLINK. We have studied this book in my reading classes, and it is always a hit because it has something for students planning to study criminal justice, business, marketing, education, social science, well, you get the picture. It is about the power of thinking without thinking. Gladwell’s father is British and his mother is Jamaican. Every book he has written has made it to the NY Times Bestseller list. His book OUTLIERS is also a great read.

  2. One interesting work which can be read online is Recollections of Slavery Times by Allen Parker. First published in 1895, Parker’s Recollections tells the saga of his years as a slave in the coastal region of North Carolina from his birth in 1838 to his flight to a Union gunboat in 1862. Parker provides a remarkably comprehensive view of slavery and antebellum society in at least one corner of the rural South. The entire work and related materials are online at http://core.ecu.edu/HIST/CECELSKID/dcintro.htm

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