| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Black Mask-ulinity: A Framework for Black Masculine Caring(New York: Peter Lang, 2016) | Lisa Bass (Editor), Vanessa Siddle Walker (Foreword), Roderick Jones (Contributor), Floyd D. Beachum (Contributor), Amber Jones (Contributor), Carlos R. McCray (Contributor), Mark A. Gooden (Contributor), Vonzell Agosto (Contributor), Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas (Contributor), Daniel D. Spikes (Contributor), Julia Camille Ransom (Contributor), James Earle Davis (Contributor), Paul F. Bitting (Contributor), Robert A. Horne (Contributor), Brian Freeland (Contributor) | Non-fiction, Essay, Gender, African American studies, Feminism and Feminist theory / Permanent Collection |
 | Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013) | Vincent Katz (Editor), Robert Creeley (Contributor), Kevin Power (Contributor), Martin Brody (Contributor) | Art, Art theory, Contemporary art, Art criticism, Artist biography, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America(Wesleyan University Press, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017) | C. Riley Norton (Author) | Race, Gender, African American studies, Trans studies / Permanent Collection, NYC Trans Oral History Project |
 | Black People are Cropped: Skin Set Drawings 1997-2011 (Zurich, Switzerland:JRP Editions, 2013) | William Pope.L (Artist), Helen Molesworth (Contributor), Iain Kerr (Contributor) | African American art, Drawing, Typography, Contemporary art, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2020) | Thabiti Lewis (Author) | Biography, Black Studies, Criticism and interpretation, African American studies, African American literature, Black Feminism, Feminism and Feminist theory / Residency Collection, Workshops |
 | Black Performance Theory(Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014) | Thomas F. DeFrantz (Editor), D. Soyini Madison (Foreword), Anita Gonzalez (Editor), Nadine George-Graves (Contributor), Koritha Mitchell (Contributor) | Theatre, Critical theory, African American studies, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Black Radical Imagination (Los Angeles: Dominica, 2015) | Erin Christovale (Author), Martine Syms (Editor), Amir George (Author) | Exhibition catalog, Art, Black Studies, Afrofuturism, Film and Film Studies, Afro-Surrealism / Permanent Collection |
 | Black Rooms (Elisabeth Molin, 2017) | Elisabeth Molin (Author) | Books about books, Architecture / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Black Skin, White Masks (New York : Grove Press, 2008 [1952]) | Frantz Fanon (Author), Charles Lam Markmann (Translator), Paul Gilroy (Introduction) | Blackness, Black Studies, Race, Colonialism, Political science, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Black Star. A Retro-Prospective of the Work of Eugenia Martínez and Other Women (Mexico City, Mexico: Terremoto, 2023) | Tonatiuh López (Editor), Santiago Martínez Alberú (Designer) | Anthology, Spanish language, Bilingual, Monograph, Feminist art history, Mexican art -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | Black Sun(New York: Columbia University Press, 1989) | Julia Kristeva (Author), Leon Roudiez (Translator) | Philosophy, History, Essay, Literary criticism, Literary studies, Art criticism / Permanent Collection |
 | Black Sunlight (London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024 [1980]) | Dambudzo Marechera (Author) | African literature, Fiction, African fiction / Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Black Tickets: Stories(Vintage (2001), Edition: Reprint, 288 pages, 2001) | Jayne Anne Phillips (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 2008) | Barbara Thompson (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Black Feminism, Body and Body Politics / Permanent Collection |
 | Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) | Hortense J. Spillers (Author) | American literature, Black Studies, Race, Literary studies, African American literature |
 | Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016) | Ashon T. Crawley (Author) | Aesthetics, Performance studies, Black Liberation |
 | Blacks (Chicago, IL: Third World Press Foundation, 1987) | Gwendolyn Brooks (Author) | African American poetry, American poetry -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
 | Blank Forms: Issue One(Brooklyn, NY: Blank Forms, 2017) | Lawrence Kumpf (Editor), Greg Bear (Contributor), Bruce Russell (Contributor), Joe McPhee (Contributor), Dennis Hermanson (Contributor), Shelley Hirsch (Contributor), Bill Dietz (Contributor), Adrian Rew (Contributor), Brandon W. Joseph (Contributor), Dawn Kasper (Contributor), Ian Nagoski (Contributor), Joe Bucciero (Editor), Francois Bonnet (Contributor), Richard C. Skidmore (Contributor), Sharon Gong (Designer) | Fiction, Non-fiction, Music, Essay, Sound, Performance, Periodical, Art theory, Art criticism, Drama and Performance studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Blessing and Transgressing: A Live Institute (Rotterdam, Netherlands: Witte de With, 2018) | Defne Ayas (Editor) | Contemporary art, Curatorial practice / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Blood and Guts in High School(NY: Grove Press (2017), 2017) | Kathy Acker (Author), Chris Kraus (Introduction) | Experimental fiction, Fiction, Post-punk feminism / Permanent Collection |
 | Blood Child (New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2003) | Octavia E. Butler (Author) | Science fiction, Fiction / Permanent Collection |
| Blood Makes Me Faint But I Go For IT(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014) | Natalie Lyalin | Permanent Collection |
 | Blood, Bread, and Poetry(New York City: W.W. Norton, 1986) | Adrienne Rich (Author) | LGBTQ, Poetry, Politics, American poetry -- 20th century / Permanent Collection |
| Blue and Red Things(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007) | Laura Solomon | Permanent Collection |
 | Blue Has Run(Berlin: Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2016) | Rosmetti Costales | Mexico, Poetry, Anthropology, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
Blue Lyre: New Poetry (Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2018) | Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (Author) | American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection | |
 | Blueprint for Counter Education Expanded Reprint (Los Angeles: Inventory Press, 2016) | Maurice Stein (Author), Marshall Hendricks (Author), Paul Cronin (Author), Larry Miller (Author), Adam Michaels (Author) | Pedagogy / BAM Reading Room (2017), Erizo Residency |
 | Bluets(Seattle : [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Wave Books ; Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2009., 2009) | Maggie Nelson | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Bodega (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2019) | Su Hwang (Author) | Memoir, Immigration, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |