Black Literature, Cinema, and Thought Recommendations
Here's a big list of all my recommendations for anyone curious about black literature, history, cinema, and thought. Thank you to @sh1-n0bu for inspiring this! Make sure to always do your own research further than what I've listed. There's a plethora of criticisms, thoughts, and perspectives that contribute and challenge the texts I list here, and it's always important to not let one text be the end all be all of your thoughts and opinions. This list will mostly focus on cinema, literature and art because that's what I study :)
Black Literature
Ark of Bones and Other Stories by Henry Dumas
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
The Belly by Tchicaya U Tam’si
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
Communion by bell hooks
The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Assata Shakur
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Mouth of Rain Anthology by Various Writers
Small Island by Andrea Levy
In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo
Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
Soul by Soul by Walter Johnson
Zami by Audre Lorde
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
1943: Surrealism and Us by Suzanne Césaire
Erasure by Percival Everett
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
Black Cinema
Atlantique dir. Mati Diop
Atlanta dir. Donald Glover
Sorry to Bother You dir. Boots Riley
La Noire de …. dir. Ousmane Sembène
Get Out dir. Jordan Peele
I’m A Virgo dir. Boots Riley
Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler
And So Angels Die dir. Moussa Sène Absa
The Blackening dir. Tim Story
Ginja and Hess dir. Bill Gunn
American Fiction dir. Cord Jefferson
Candyman dir. Nia DaCosta
Black Culture and Media Youtube Video Essayists
F.D. Signifier
Princess Weekes
Prince Shakur
Khadija Mbowe
Anansi’s Library
Black Art Movements
Afrosurrealism
Négritude
Harlem Renaissance
Black Artists
Jean Michel Basquiat
Kara Walker
Kool Keith
Ekow Nimako
Sun Ra
Harmonia
