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Dreads (1999)
This book about the history of the hairstyle dubbed "dreadlocks" is hard to place in just one geographic category but, for simplicity's sake, I've ...
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Caribbean Talk... 1000 proverbs and sayings from the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora (2003)
Julian H.A. Neijorst's 139-page book captures 1000 proverbs and sayings from rich African oral history traditions in the Caribbean. The book starts...
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Discourse On Colonialism (2001)
This version of Aimé Césaire's (1913-2008) seminal work was released with a forward from the eminent African Diaspora historian Robin D.G. Kelly. T...
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A History of Pan-African Revolt (1938 & 1969)
It is hard to put this book into just one category, but let's go with Caribbean and Europe because the historian C.L.R. James was originally from T...
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AfroCuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture (2002)
This anthology was edited by a Black Cuban writer and a White British academic joined in a mutual appreciation for cultural life and literary tradi...
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The Black Jacobins (1989)
This book depicts the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that empowered the entire African Diaspora to seek self-rule and autonomous li...
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The Free Negress Elisabeth (2008)
Dutch-Surinamese author Cynthia McLeod (1936-) retells a fictionalized version of the life story of Elisabeth Samson, a wealthy free Black Surinam...
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