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COLLECTIVE READING

Recent works by BIPOC scholars (2021/22)

Blain, Keisha N. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.


Byrd, Brandon R., Leslie M. Alexander, and Russell John Rickford, eds. Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022.


Card, Maisy. These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2021.

Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2021.

Colbert, Soyica Diggs. Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. S.l.: Yale University Pres, 2022.


Coles, Michelle. Black Was the Ink. New York: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., 2021.


Davis, Angela Y. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2021.


Davis, Angela Y., Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth Richie. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2022.


Delmont, Matthew F. “Everyday History in African-American Newspapers.” Black Quotidian. Stanford University Press, January 1, 1970. http://www.blackquotidian.org.

Emejulu, A., and L. Bassel. Rep. Women of Colour Resist: Exploring Women of Colour’s Activism in Europe. Coventry: University of Warwick, 2021.


Ewoodzie, Joseph C. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.


Field, Corrinne T, and La Kisha M Simmons, eds. The Global History of Black Girlhood. S.l.: University of Illinois Press, 2022.


Givens, Jarvis R. Fugitive Pedagogy. Harvard University Press, 2021.

Godfrey, Mark, and Allie Biswas, eds. The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2021.

Greene, Robert, Tyler D. Parry, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Henrie M. Treadwell. Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2021.


Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. London: Peguin Random House UK, 2021.


Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Watson Renée. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water. New York: Kokila, 2021.

hooks, bell. All about Love: New Visions. New York, NY: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.


Hurston, Zora Neale. You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays. Edited by Margaret Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates. New York, NY: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.


Jeffers Honorée Fanonne. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. London: 4th Estate, 2022.


Jelks, Randal Maurice. Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2022.


Kendi, Ibram X., and Keisha N. Blain, eds. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. : Penguin Random House UK, 2021.

Mackenthun, Gesa, and Christen Mucher. Decolonizing "Prehistory" Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021.


McDaniels, Darryl DMC, Shawnee Warfield, Johnny Warfield, Adam Padilla, and Tristan Tait. Darryl's Dream. New York: Random House, 2022.


Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. : Random House, 2022.

Okorafor, Nnedi. Akata Woman. New York: Viking, 2022.


Perry, Imani. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. New York, NY: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.

Ribianszky, Nik. Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2021.


Rosado, Anna, Gideon Cohn-Postar, Mimi Eisen, and Zinn Project Education team. “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail To Teach The Truth About Reconstruction.” Reconstruction Report. Zinn Education Project, January 21, 2022. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/national-report-on-teaching-reconstruction/.


Stewart Danté. Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle. New York: Convergent, 2021.

Terry, Bryant. Black Food: Stories, Art & Recipes from across the African Diaspora. California: Ten Speed Press, 2021.

Trotter, Joe William. African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2022.

Williams, Kidada E. “Seizing Freedom Podcast.” Zinn Education Project, January 12, 2022.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/seizing-freedom-podcast/.

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