Black Lives Movement: Books and Novels

Books

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010)
• Andrews, George Reid. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. OUP USA, 2004
• Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Vintage International, 1963.
• Beth Richie, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (New York University Press, 2012) 
• Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. Knopft Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992
• Bryant, Howard. The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism. Beacon Press, 2018.
• Camp, Jordan T. and Christina Heatherton. Policing the Planet: Why Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter. Verso, 2016.
• Carruthers, Charlene. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Beacon Press, 2018
• Cherrie Morgan and Gloria Anzaldua. This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983
• Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Chin, Staceyann. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. Scribner, 2009
• Clark, John Henrik. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism. Eworld Inc, 2011.
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. One World Publishing, 2017.
• Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Taylor & Francis, 1990
• Crow Dog, Mary. Lakota Woman. Grove Atlantic, 1990
• Daisy Jernandez, Bushra Rehman, and Cherrie Moraga. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Basic Books, 2002
• Davis, Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003)
• Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016.
• Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Women’s Press, 1974
• Delaney, Lucy A. From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891, available online through UNC “Documenting the American South)
• DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Beacon Press, 2018
• Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.  Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Ink, 2018).
• Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Richard Philcox, Grove Atlantic, 2007
• Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. University of Minnesota Press, 1993
• Fulton, Sybrina and Tracy Martin. Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin. Spiegel & Grau, 2017.
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007)
• Hadden, Sally. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Harvard University Press, 2001).
• Haley, Sarah. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).
• Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2010
• Hartman, Saidya.  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Norton,  2020)
• Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press, 2017).
• Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Pluto Press, 1984
• Hooks, Bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Henry Hold and Company, 1996
• Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. Atria Books, 2004
• Hoston, William T. Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston. Peter Lang, 2018
• Hull, Gloria T. All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies. Feminist Press, 1982
• Jackson, Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anti-Black World. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson. NYU Press, 2020
• Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. NYU Press, 2020.
• Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants the Alchemy of Race. Harvard University Press, 1998
• Jimenez Roman, Miriam and Flores, Juan. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Duke University Press, 2009
• Kendi, Ibram X.  Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. (New York: Nation Books, 2016).
• Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and Bandele, Asha. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2018).
• Kidada Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me:  African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I (NYU Press, 2012).
• Lebron, Christopher J. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Lorde, Audre. Zami: a New Spelling of My Name. Crossing Press, 1982
• Magee, Rhonda V. The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities. TarcherPerigee, 2019.
• Malo, Pelo. Directed by Mariana Rondón, performances by Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, and Beto Benites, Global Lens, 2013
• Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Translated by Steve Corcoran, Duke University Press, 2019
• Mogul, Joey L. and Ritchie, Andrea J. Queer (In) Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Beacon Press, 2011
• Moore, Darnell L. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. PublicAffairs, 2018
• Muhammed, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2nd ed., 2019).
• Nkrumah, Kwame. Neocolonialism: The Last State of Imperialism. Panaf, 1974
• Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. W.W. Norton, 2010
• Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Beacon Press, 2019.
• Perry, Imani. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
• Powell, Kevin. The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood. Atria Books, 2015
• Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso, 2018
• Sapphire. American Dreams. Vintage Books, 1996
• Shakur, Assata. Assata. L Hill Publisher, 2001
• Shange, Savannah. Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco. Duke University Press, 2019
• Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press. 2016
• Smith, Barbara, ed. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. New York: Kitchen Table- Women of Color Press, 1983.
• Smith, Barbara. Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom: The Truth that Never Hurts. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998.
• Snorton, C. Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2017
• Stanley, Eric A. and Smith, Nat. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition (AK Press, 2015) 
• Sudbury, Julia (ed.). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex (Routledge, 2005)
• Taylor, Keenga-Yamahtta. From #BLACKLIVESMATTER To Black Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.
• Vitale, Alex S. The End of Policing. Verso Books, 2017
• Watkins, D. The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America. Hot Books, 2015.
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings (1892; Dover Publications, 2014 reprint)
• West, Cornel. Race Matters. Beacon Press, 1993
• Wilderson III, Frank B. Afropessimism. Liveright Publishing, 2020.
• Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2004
• X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Random House Publishing Group, 1965

 

Novels

• Stone, Nic. Dear Martin. Crown Books, 2017.
• Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give. Balzer & Bray (HarperCollins Publishers), 2017.