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Alexander, M. Jacqui. Pedagogies of Crossing Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2005.
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2020.
B., Du Bois W. E. The Souls of Black Folk: the Unabridged Classic. New York, NY: Clydesdale, 2019.
Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: on the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Davis, Angela Y., and Robin D. G. Kelley. The Meaning of Freedom: and Other Difficult Dialogues. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2012.
Davis, Angela Yvonne. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. New York: Vintage, 1999.
DuBois, William Edward Burghardt, Henry Louis. Gates, and Elelyn Brooks. Higginbotham. Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Ford, Tanisha C. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Words of Fire: an Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New York: The New Press, 1996.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: a Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.
Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
James, Joy. Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Julien, Isaac, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stuart Hall, and Verges Franco̧ise. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. San Francisco, CA, USA: Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Kelley, Robin D. G. Freedom Dreams: the Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon, 2002.
Lorde, Audre Geraldine. Zami ; Sister Outsider ; Undersong. New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984.
Moten, Fred. In the Break the Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Mustakeem, Sowande' M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Nelson, Alondra. The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations and Reconciliation after the Genome. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016.
Quayson, Ato. Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.
Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: the Making of the Black Radical Tradition. United States: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Shakur, Assata. Assata: an Autobiography. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 2001.
Spillers, Hortense J. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe.” Feminisms, 1987, 384–405. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14428-0_24.
Walcott, Rinaldo. Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies. London: Insomniac Press, 2016.
Wekker, Gloria. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Wilderson, Frank B. Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile & Apartheid. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Wilderson, Frank B. Red, White & Black Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Wright, Michelle M. Physics of Blackness: beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Young, Hershini Bhana. Illegible Will: Coercive Spectacles of Labor in South Africa and the Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.