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
FILMS
- 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
- @nanpansky
- @littleglissant
- @blacklikewho
- @lmartods
- @alanalentin
- @hystericalblkns
- @akwugoemejulu
- @jacquelspringer
- @againstgringpo
- @nairyasmin
- @keguro
- @queercruising
- @ruffneckrefugee
- @ztsamudzi
- @kojorte
- @xaymacans
- @rellativity