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Black Organizing Project

"An Octaroon"

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

Brent Hayes Edwards

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

C. Riley Snorton

“From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried”

Carrie Mae Weems

"Joao de Deus Nascimento"

Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910

Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Heavy

“Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”

Kimberle Crenshaw

"Pickett's Charge"

"Lynch Fragments"

Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative

http://nbjc.org

National Black Justice Coalition

Patricia Hill Collins

"Julie"

Rhiannon Giddens

Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America

Robin D.G. Kelley

"The Sewing of Memory"

Bad Feminist. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2014.

Critical Inquiry podcast on "unfreedom"

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

"Underexposed"

Shooting without Bullets

Dark Matters: On Surveillance and Blackness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.

“Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics." Critical Sociology 36(1), 2010: 131-150.

"Brick House"

Spillers, Hortense. 'Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book' (1987)

https://alp.org

The Audre Lorde Project

"Black Archive"

Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.

Listening to Images. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

Beloved

"Melanin(a)"

Walter Thompson-Hernández

Media Representation

Benbow, Candice. Lemonade Syllabus (2016)

Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names (2013)

Caddoo, Cara. Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life (2014)

Cervenak, Sarah. Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom (2014)

"Black Still Life." Keynote at Symposium II "Performances of No-thingness" of the "Colonial Repercussions/Koloniales Erbe" series at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, on May 26-27, 2018.

Christina Sharpe

Chude-Sokei, Louis. The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2006)

Color of Change

Coogler, Ryan. Black Panther (2018)

Copeland, Huey. Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (2013)

Dash, Julie. Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Davies, Carole Boyce. Black Women, Writing, and Identiyt: Migrations of the Subject (1994)

duCille, Ann. Technicolored: Reflections on Race in a Time of TV (2018)

Ebrahim, Haseenah. 'Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema' (2007)

Edwards, Brent Hayes. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (2003)

Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat

Ellen Gallagher

ESPN. The Undefeated (2016- )

Field, Allyson, Jan-Christopher Horak, Jacqueline Stewart, eds. LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015)

Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms

Frank Wilderson

Gillespie, Michael. Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film (2016)

"Notes on the Margin of the Black Book"

Griffin, Farah. 'Who Set You Flowin'?' The African American Migration Narrative (1995)

Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2006)

HBO. The Shop (2018- )

Hintzen, Percy, and Jean Muteba Rahier, eds. Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (2003)

Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture

Hortense Spillers

Indiana University Press. Black Camera: An International Film Journal

Jafa, Arthur. Dreams are Colder than Death (2014)

"A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby"

Keeling, Kara. The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (2007)

Khabeer, Su'ad Abdul. Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (2016)

Livingston, Jennie. Paris is Burning (1991)

"Billie" series

Lyle Ashton Harris

Mock, Janet, Brittney Cooper, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, CeCe McDonald, and Mey Valdivia Rude. "Redefining Realness: A Salon in Honor of Janet Mock" (2014)

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye (1970)

Pew Research Center. "African Americans and Technology Use: A Demographic Portrait" (2014)

Rae, Issa. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2015)

Robinson, Phoebe. You Cant't Touch My Hair, And Other Things I Still Have to Explain (2016)

Sharpe, Jenny. Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archive of Black Women's Lives (2002)

Smith-Shomade, Beretta. Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences (2012)

"Poem for Some Women"

Thurston, Baratunde. Hot to Be Black (2012)

Tschabalala Self

Waters, Mary. Black Identities: West Indian American Dreams and American Realities (2001)

Wilderson, Frank. Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms (2010)

Ziegler, Kortney Ryan. Still Black: A Portrait of Black Trans Men (2008)

Voter Disinfranchisement

Ahmed, Adeel, and Ashwin Gandbhir. Unforgiven (2016)

Alim, H. Samy, and Geneva Smitherman. Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the US (2012)

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son (1955)

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (1963)

Black Youth Project 100

Bryant, Howard. The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism (2018)

Carrington, Ben. Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010)

Clay, Andreana. The Hip Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism, and Post-civil Rights Politics (2012)

Color of Change

Cooper, Brittney. Eloquent Rage (2018)

Democracy Now! 'Meet Crystal Mason, the Black Texas Mother Facing 5+ Years in Prison for Voting in the 2016 Election' (2018)

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (1845)

Edwards, Brent. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (2003)

Edwards, Harry. The Revolt of the Black Athlete (1969)

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (1952)

Ellison, Treva. "Black Trans Reproductive Labor" (2017)

Farred, Grant. In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (2014)

Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (1997)

Haywood, D'Weston. Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement (2018)

Hooker, Juliet. Race and the Politics of Solidarity (2009)

Houston Justice

Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2008)

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861)

James, C.L.R. Beyond a Boundary (1963)

Jeffries, Michael P. Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (2013)

Kiwana, Bakari. Hip Hop Activism in the Obama Era (2012)

Lisa Marie Cacho

Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider (1984)

Marc Lamont Hill

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich: Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

Mary Frances Berry

Newkirk, Vann R. 'Voter Suppression is Warping Democracy''(2018)

Obama, Michelle. Becoming (2018)

Parker, Frank. Black Votes Count : Political Empowerment in Mississippi after 1965 (1990)

Ratna, Aarti, and Samaya Samie, eds. Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women (2017)

Redmond, Shana. Anthem: Social Movements ands the Sound Solidarity in the African Diaspora (2013)

Richardson, Marilyn, ed. Maria W. Stewart, America's First/Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speechees (1987)

Ross, Charles. Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality On and Off the Field (2004)

Sexton, Jared. 'The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism' (2011)

Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)

Sharpe, Christina. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2009)

Sylvia Wynter, 'Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation'And Argument' (2003)

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (1997)

Thomas, Hank Willis. 'The Cotton Bowl' (2011)

Watkins, S. Craig. Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (2005)

Wright, Richard. Black Boy (1945)

X, Malcolm, Alex Haley , and Sam Sloan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)

Young, Cynthia. Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (2006)

Art & Performance

Andre, Naomi. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (2018)

Avilez, GerShun. Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism (2016)

Baraka, Amiri. Black Music (1967)

Barrett, Lindon. Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (2008)

Best, Stephen. None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (2018)

Beyonce'. 'Formation' (2016)

Brooks, Daphne. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (2006)

Campt, Tina. Listening to Images (2017)

Celeste, Manouchecka. 'Black Media Studies' (2018)

Chude-Sokei, Louis.The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2006)

Cohen, Lara, and Jordan Stein, eds. Early African American Print Culture (2012)

Crawford, Margo. Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics (2017)

Crawley, Ashon. Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016)

deFrantz, Thomas, and Anita Gonzalez. Black Performance Studies (2014)

Delbanco, Andrew. The Abolitionist Imagination (2012)

Gaines, Malik. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible (2017)

Haywood, D'Weston. Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement (2018)

Holiday, Billie. 'Strange Fruit' (1939)

Hord, Fred, ed. Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity (2005)

Jaji, Tsitsi. Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (2013)

Marriott, David. Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (2007)

Mbembe, Achille. Critique of Black Reason (2003)

Mitchell, Koritha. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (2011)

Moten, Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003)

Orejuela, Fernando, and Stephanie Shonekan. Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (2018)

Perry, Imani. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (2018)

Rabaka, Reiland. Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Right Movement (2016)

Rickford, John Russeell, and Russell John Rickford. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (2000)

Robinson, Cedric. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983)

Saunders, Tanya. Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity (2015)

Smith, Christen. Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (2016)

Smitherman, Geneva. Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America (1986)

Solange. A Seat at the Table (2016)

Spillers, Hortense. Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (2003)

Thompson, Katrina. Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery (2014)

Thompson, Krista. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (2015)

Tinson, Christopher. Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s (2017)

Warren, Calvin. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (2018)

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