salt. Reading List

BOOKS

• Saidiyah Hartman – Lose Your Mother
• Saidiyah Hartman – Scenes of Subjection
• Kiese Laymon – Long Division
• Frantz Fanon – Black Skin White Masks
• Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth
• Jennifer Terry – Shuttles in the Rocking Loom: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction
• Paul Gilroy – The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness’
• Edouard Glissant – Caribbean Discourse
• Hortense Spillers – Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
• Ayi Kwei Armah – Two Thousand Seasons
• Maya Angelou – All God’s Children Need Walking Shoes
• Ayi Kwei Armah – The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born’
• Toni Morrison: Beloved
• Fran Ross – Oreo
• Toni Cade Bambara – The Salt Eaters
• bell hooks – Sisters of the Yam
• bell hooks –  All About Love
• James Baldwin – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Teju Cole –  Open City
• Toni Morrison –  God Help The Child
• This Bridge Called My Back
• Pearl Cleage – Things I Should Have Told My Daughter, Lies, Lessons and Love Affairs
• Kamala Kempadoo –  Sexing the Caribbean, Gender, Race and Sexual Labour
• Ann Reed – Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
• Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings
• Marlon James – The Book of the Night Women
• Marlon James – John Crow’s Devil
• Amiri Baraka – The System of Dante’s Hell
• Mixed Company, Three Early Jamaican Plays
• Nalo Hopkinson – The Salt Roads
• Octavia E.Butler – Bloodchild
• Gladstone Taylor – KingSun, The Testaments of Sunlight and Water
• Nayyirah waheed – Salt
• Nayyirah Waheed – Nejma
• Audre Lorde –  Sister Outsider
• Alice Walker –  In Search of Our Mothers Gardens
• Marcus Garvey – Ultimate Collection of Speeches and Poems
• Dionne Brand – Thirsty
• Dionne Brand – A Map To The Door Of No Return
• Pat Parker – Movement in Black
• Christina Sharpe – In The Wake, On Blackness and Being
• Simone Brown – Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness
• D.S. Marriott – Hoodoo Voodoo
• Bernadine Evaristo – Blonde Roots
• Grace Nichols – I is a Long Memoried Woman
• Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave
• Nell Irvin Painter – The History of White People

 

FILM

• Daughters of the Dust
• Lemonade
• Xala
• Welcome to the Terrordome
• Beloved
• Marley
• The Nine Muses
• The Stuart Hall Project

 

MUSIC

• Rihanna
• Drake
• Benjamin Clementine
• Kelsey Lu
• Cold Specks
• ESKA
• Laura Mvula
• Solange
• SZA
• Valerie June
• serpentwithfeet
• Kate Bush
• Mos Def
• Kendrick Lamar
• Kano
• James Blake
• King
• Marcia Griffiths
• Bob Marley
• Fatoumata Diawara
• Grace Jones
• Fred Locks
• Erykah Badu
• Soul II Soul
• Jimmy Cliff
• Dennis Brown
• Freddie Mc Gregor
• Sizzla
• Junglepussy

 

TWITTER

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• @littleglissant
• @blacklikewho
• @lmartods
• @alanalentin
• @hystericalblkns ‏
• @akwugoemejulu
• @jacquelspringer
• @againstgringpo
• @nairyasmin
• @keguro
• @queercruising
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