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Take Me To The Water: Histories Of The Black Pacific

Recommended books related to African Americans and their histories in the Pacific Ocean in ways that transformed their lives, communities, and, at times, nations, between the 1500s and mid-1900s.

San Diego Public Library

15 items

  • Black Jacks

    African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

    Bolster, W. Jeffrey
    BookCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997. — 387.5/BOLSTER
  • BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — 797.32096/AFRO
  • Better Than Good

    a Black Sailor's War, 1943-1945

    Newton, Adolph W., 1925-
    BookAnnapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1999. — B/NEWTON
  • Conquering the Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    Reséndez, Andrés,
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — 959.90109/RESENDEZ
  • Slaves, Sailors, Citizens

    African Americans in the Union Navy

    Ramold, Steven J.
    BookDeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2002. — 973.758/RAMOLD
  • Up Periscope!

    How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

    Swanson, Jennifer,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — B/MONTAGUE
  • Black Yanks in the Pacific

    Race in the Making of American Military Empire After World War II

    Green, Michael Cullen, 1977-
    BookIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010. — 940.5403/GREEN
  • Sharks Don't Sink

    Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

    Graham, Jasmin,
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2024] — B/GRAHAM
  • BookOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. — B/FORTEN