The Catalog


Diagram of ship's hull showing extremely confined and crowded layout of enslaved passengers
Graphic showing statistics on black men at SIUE: 5% of undergraduate students and 2% of graduate students are black men; 3% of undergraduate degrees and 2% of graduate degrees were awarded to black men; and 2% of faculty are black men
Image of Adrian Matejka's book The Big Smoke
Image of the Vintage Hughes anthology of Langston Hughes poems
Graphic showing 3 people out of 100, indicating that as of 2021, 3% of professors at SIUE are black men
Image of Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Image of the comic book Killmonger
Two black and white images of a boy, first labelled 'Contraband Jackson, Servant in Confederate Army,' and second 'Drummer Jackson, 29th U.S.C.T.'
Image of Rob Guillory's comic book Farmhand
Image of Kevin Young's poetry collection, Dear Darkness
Image of Ta-Nehisi Coates's book, Between the World and Me
Image of Cornelius Eady's poetry collection, Brutal Imagination