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Black Diaspora/Psychology Bibliography
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Recommended Readings
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Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery – Na’Im Akbar
Colonialism and Homosexuality – Robert Aldrich
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
The Invention of the White Race – Theodore W. Allen
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California – Tomas Almaguer
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior – Marimba
Ani
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap – Mehrsa Baradaran
Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today – Jacqueline
Battalora
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology - Joseph Beam
African American Psychology: From Africa to America (4th ed.) – Faye Z. Belgrave & Kevin W.
Allison
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice – Derrick Bell
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World
War II - Douglas A. Blackmon
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence – Darius
Bost
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough:
Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home - Keith Boykin
African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows - Fanny Brewster
The Condemnation of Little B: New Age Racism in America – Elaine Brown
Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans – Farai
Chideya
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment –
Patricia Hill Collins
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership –
Harold Cruse
Another white Man's Burden: Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire –
Tommy J. Curry
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood - Tommy J. Curry
Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Y. Davis
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing - Joy Angela
DeGruy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God – Kelly Brown Douglas
The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in
Modern America) – Mary Dudziak
Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing – Joe R. Feagin
How Blacks Built America: Labor, Culture, Freedom, and Democracy - Joe R. Feagin
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual
Orientation – Lourdes Dolores Follins & Jonathan Mathias Lassiter
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
100 Years of Lynchings – Ralph Ginzburg
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men - Essex Hemphill
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery – bell hooks
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo – Zora Neale Hurston
The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism - Aida Hurtado
Spirited: Affirming the Soul And Black Gay/lesbian Identity – G. Winston James & Lisa C.
Moore
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology - E. Patrick Johnson
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No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies - E. Patrick Johnson
The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music –
Ferdinand Jones & Arthur C. Jones
The African Personality in America: An African-Centered Framework - Kobi Kazembe Kalongi
Kambon
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics – Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America – Richard Majors & Janet Mancini
Billson
Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process - Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts
and Bodies – Resmaa Menakem
The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) – Toni Morrison
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (The
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) – Kevin Mumford
Handbook of African American Psychology – Helen A. Neville; Brendesha M. Tynes; & Shawn
O. Utsey
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
Seeking the Sakhu: Foundational Writings for an African Psychology – Wade W. Nobles
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Cathy O'Neil
The History of White People – Nell Irvin Painter
Psychology of Blacks: Centering Our Perspectives in the African Consciousness – Thomas A.
Parham; Adisa Ajamu; & Joseph L. Whites
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men's Communities (Critical Perspectives on the
Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies) – Damien W. Riggs
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard
Rothstein
Mama Black Widow - Iceberg Slim
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton
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Black masculinity: The Black Male's Role in American Society – Robert Staples
The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America – Mwalimu J. Shujaa &
Kenya J. Shujaa
The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire
– Greg Thomas
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health
Crumbled – Deborah Wallace & Rodrick Wallace
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from
Colonial Times to the Present – Harriet A. Washington
From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity – Miles White
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law- James Q.
Whitman
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid – Frank B. Wilderson, III
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation – Angela Kyodo Williams; Lama Rod
Owens; & Jasmine Syedullah
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting – Terrie M. Williams
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture
(Sexual Cultures) – Vincent Woodard
The Mis-Education of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America – George
Yancy
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America – George Yancy &
Linda Martin Alcoff
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights - Kenji Yoshino
Movie - 13th & Moonlight