Reading List
Want to add new material to your reading list? Dive into our list of literary favorites from across the African diaspora. Selections made by MoCADA Staff, board and guest curators. Updated regularly.
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Title: Freshwater
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Selected by: Khethiwe Mmganga
Title: The Intuitionist
Author: Colson Whitehead
Selected by: Macy Rajacich
Title: Black Skin, White Masks
Author: Frantz Fanon
Selected by: Moctar Diarra
Title: Assata: An Autobiography
Author: Assata Shakur
Selected by: Grey Stricker & Melissa Howell
Title: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Women, Race & Class
Author: Angela Y. Davis
Selected by: Diamond Marie Gonzalez St. Baptiste & Grey Stricker
Title: Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Author: Charlene Carruthers
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Author: Kwame Ture (Formerly known as Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Thirteen Cents: A Novel
Author: K. Sello Duiker
Selected by: Khethiwe Mnganga
Title: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Author: Damon Young
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: homegirls & handgrenades
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Selected by: Melissa Howell
Title: Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Author: H. Rap Brown
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style
Author: Shantrelle P. Lewis
Selected by: Melissa Howell
Title: Homegoing: A Novel
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Selected by: Khethiwe Mnganga + Melissa Howell
Title: Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and The Caribbean
Author: Michael Richardson
Selected by: Laura Walton
Title: Eyes, Breath, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Selected by: Diamond Gonzalez St. Baptiste
Title: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Author: Paul Gilroy
Selected by: Diamond Marie Gonzalez
Title: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Author: adrienne maree brown
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Faces At the Bottom of The Well: The Permanence of Racism
Author: Derrick Bell
Selected by: Run P.
Title: Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Author: Saidiya Hartman
Selected by: Khethiwe Mnganga
Title: The Wretched of the Earth
Author: Frantz Fanon
Selected by: Laura Walton + Run P.
Title: The Freedom Artist
Author: Ben Okri
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Big Machine
Author: Victor LaValle
Selected by: Moctar Diarra
Title: Nervous Conditions
Author: Tsitsi Dangaremba
Selected by: Khethiwe Mnganga
Title: Radical Dharma:Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Author:
Selected by: Laura Walton
Title: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age
Author: Lewis R. Gordon
Selected by: Audrey Lyall
Title:The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Selected by: Lindsey Norward
Title: Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Author: Beth Lesser
Selected by: Run P.
Title: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Selected by: Audrey Lyall
Title: Parable of the Sower
Author: Octavia Butler
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play
Author: Wole Soyinka
Selected by: Diamond Marie Gonzalez
Title: Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas
Author: Jan Carew
Selected by: Laura Walton
Title: Black Moses
Author: Alain Mabanckou
Selected by: Amy Andrieux
Title: Going to Meet the Man (Short Stories)
Author: James Baldwin
Selected by: Macy Rajacich
