Black History Month 2023 Black History Month 2023 'Saluting
Our Sisters' 'Saluting Our Sisters' Reading list
The theme of Black History Month 2023, 'Saluting Our Sisters', celebrates the crucial role that Black women have played in shaping history, inspiring change, and building communities.
This Combined Academic Publishers reading list showcases remarkable contributions made by Black women to politics, social change, music, cinema, business, literature and more.
Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Home Girls, 40th anniversary edition
Edited by Barbara Smith
Rutgers University Press
October 2023
9781978838994
£21.99 II Paperback
Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of black feminist thought, features writing by black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound
Beyoncé in Formation
By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
University of Texas Press
The Truth That Never Hurts, 25th anniversary edition
By Barbara Smith
Rutgers University Press
October 2023
9781978839045
£21 99 II Paperback
This book gathers Barbara Smith's work in black women ' s literary traditions and in making connections between race, class, sexuality and gender
November 2018 II 9781477318393
£14 99 II Paperback
Tinsley takes her rich observations from her “Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism” course beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives
Music, Film & Media Studies
Black Diamond Queens
By Maureen Mahon
Duke University Press
October 2020
9781478011224
£26 99 II Paperback
By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.
Black Women Directors
By Christina N. Baker
Rutgers University Press
March 2022
9781978813335
£14 99 II Paperback
This book highlights the work of Black women directors in the United States, from pioneers of the silent era, to contemporary directors in Hollywood.
Adventures in Shondaland
Janaelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism
By Dan Hassler-Forest
Rutgers University Press
May 2022
9781978826687
£21 99 II Paperback
This provocative new study explores how Monáe’s work has connected different media platforms to strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics.
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
By Terri Simone Francis
Indiana University Press
January 2021
9780253223388
£20.99 II Paperback
Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself and her character into visual dialogue.
Edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D E Meyer
Rutgers University Press
September 2018 II 9780813596310
£34 00 II Paperback
This volume theorizes TV producer Shonda Rhimes’s contributions and influence by inspiring provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of twenty-first century television
Business & Entrepreneurship
Buy Black
By Aria S Halliday University
of Illinois Press
April 2022
9780252086359
£21 99 II Paperback
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in Black feminine identity since the 1960s.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
By Pamela Scully Ohio
University Press
April 2016
9780821422212
£14 99 II Paperback
Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving
By Tyrone McKinley Freeman
University of Illinois Press
September 2020
9780252085352
£21 99 II Paperback
Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C J Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s, but was also devoted to activist philanthropy.
Politics
Barbara Jordan
By Max Sherman
University of Texas Press
January 2022
9781477325049
£18 99 II Paperback
From the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson, Scully examines the life of a pioneering feminist politician.
Wangari Maathai
By Tabitha Kanogo
Ohio University Press
April 2020 II 9780821424179
£14.99 II Paperback
Described as "the most outspoken moral voice of the American political system" in the words of former President Bill Clinton, Barbara Jordan remains a reference for political ethics.
A biography of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to campaigning for environmental conservation, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty
Art, Literature & Poetry
Quantum Justice
By Crystal Leigh Endsley
University of Texas Press
November 2023
9781477328064
£25 99 II Paperback
How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.
Subversive Habits
The Color Pink
By Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
University of Texas Press
November 2022
9781477326442
£21 99 II Paperback
The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival During the Trump years, Black femmes created politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas
Activism
By Shannen Dee Williams
Duke University Press
May 2022
9781478018209
£26 99 II Paperback
Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy
Radicalism at the Crossroads
By Dayo F Gore
NYU Press
October 2012
9780814770115
£24.99 II Paperback
Gore unearths and examines a dynamic, extended community of black radical women during the early Cold War, including established activists, artists and writers
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016
By Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher
Nebraska Press
October 2018 II 9781496201270
£36.00 II Paperback
This book explores how black women experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France.
