Caribbean
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 by explaining the history of the linguistic developments that took place as a result of Black enslavement in European...
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. The Martinican poet, writer, and politician originally produced this work in France in 1955, during the height of his...
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 Trinidad and wrote this book while being an academician in England. This book is one of the Marxist activist's seminal...
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 traditions of Cuba. A variety of authors, primarily Latinx, discuss and discover the country through a three-part exploration....
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 liberation. It covers the entire island of Santo Domingo, both the French side (Haiti) and the Spanish (The Dominican...
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 Surinamese woman who lived in 18th-century Dutch Guyana. McLeod studied Samson's life for over a decade to generate this...
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (translated by Charles Lam Markmann) (1986)
Book Review by Sandrine Jacquot Frantz Fanon was an important intellectual and activist of the decolonization movement in the post World War II era. Born in 1925, Fanon’s work has informed the fields of critical theory, Marxism, and postcolonial studies. As an...
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 placed it in the Caribbean. The popularization of the style and the use of the name "dreads" is no-doubt attributable to...
