Book Club
Want to do some reading? Check out our must reads by the different events! You can also find the works of our fabulous speakers.
Black Fashion
Carter-David, S. D. (2014). “‘To Mirror the Happier Side of Negro Life’: Ebony and Jet in Black Cultural and Print History.” In J. Lott, J. James, L. Haynes, & H. Ringle (Eds.), "Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art" Exhibition Catalog. Retrieved from www.studiomuseum.org
Ford, Tanisha C. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Ford, Tanisha C. Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion. St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Gainer, Nichelle. Vintage Black Glamour: Gentlemen's Quarters. Rocket 88, 2016.
Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Duke University Press, 2010.
Tulloch, Carol. The Birth of Cool. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
White, Constance C. R. How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens & Kings of Black Style. Rizzoli New York, 2018.
White, Shane, and Graham J. White. Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Cornell University Press, 1999.
OWAAD: Defining Black Female Activism in Britain
Asher, Kiran. ""Seeing Through the Eyes of Black Women: Afro-Colombian Women's Activism in the Pacific Lowlands.".(WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENTS)." Resources for Feminist Research 32, no. 3-4 (2007): 228.
Bryan, Beverley, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe. The Heart of the Race : Black Women's Lives in Britain. New] Edition / Foreword by Lola Okolosie. ed. 2018.
Dadzie, Stella Abasa. Kick In the Belly : How West Indian Women Resisted Slavery. Verso, 2020.
Farmer, Ashley D. "Mothers of Pan-Africanism: Audley Moore and Dara Abubakari." Women, Gender, and Families of Color 4, no. 2 (2016): 274-95.
Feldstein, Ruth. ""The World Was On Fire": Black Women Entertainers and Transnational Activism in the 1950s." Magazine of History 26, no. 4 (2012): 25-29.
Hill Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought : Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Keisha N. Blain, Asia Leeds, and Ula Y. Taylor. "Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism." Women, Gender, and Families of Color 4, no. 2 (2016): 139-45.
Lindsey, Treva B. "Negro Women May Be Dangerous: Black Women's Insurgent Activism in the Movement for Black Lives." Souls: Combahee at 40: New Conversations and Debates in Black Feminism 19, no. 3 (2017): 315-27.
Perkins, Margo V. Autobiography as Activism. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.
Silkey, Sarah L. Black Woman Reformer. University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Live Oral History of the Black Power Movement
Angelo, Anne-Marie. "The Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic." Radical History Review 2009, no. 103 (2009): 17-35.
Baldwin, James. The Fire next Time. Penguin Twentieth-century Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1964.
Fanon, Frantz, and Richard. Philcox. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove, 2004.
Matera, Marc. Black London : The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century. California World History Library ; 22. 2015.
Nkrumah, Kwame. Africa Must Unite. London: Panaf, 2007.
Spencer, Robyn C. The Revolution Has Come. North Carolina: Duke University Press Books, 2016.
Waters, Rob. "Thinking Black: Peter Fryer’s Staying Power and the Politics of Writing Black British History in the 1980s." History Workshop Journal 82, no. 1 (2016): 104-20.
Black Art
Kaufmann, Miranda. Black Tudors : The Untold Story. 2017.
Smith, Michelle. "Blackening Europe/Europeanising Blackness: Theorising the Black Presence in Europe." Contemporary European History 15, no. 3 (2006): 423-39.
Smith, Shawn Michelle. "'Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others': W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition." African American Review 34, no. 4 (2000): 581.