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  • Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki The best books to introduce you to African speculative short fiction Book cover of Omenana to Infinity Book cover of Africanfuturism: An Anthology Book cover of AfroSF Book cover of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Book cover of Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa
  • Keenan Norris The best books for coming of age while Black Book cover of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War Book cover of How to Love a Jamaican: Stories Book cover of The Poet X Book cover of David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World Book cover of The Residue Years
  • Raven Maragh-Lloyd The best books about internet activism (hint: the kids are actually alright) Book cover of Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace Book cover of Jamaica Labrish Book cover of Digital Black Feminism Book cover of The Water Dancer Book cover of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
  • Robert H. Mayer The best history books that actually engage and even excite young readers Book cover of The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Book cover of March: Book Three Book cover of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Book cover of Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Book cover of You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
  • Monique "Nikki" Murphy The best poetry books that explore communities of color Book cover of When We Make It Book cover of Long Way Down Book cover of Bone Book cover of If They Come for Us: Poems Book cover of Clap When You Land
  • Sarah Horowitz The best books about scandalous women you’ve never heard of Book cover of My Blue Notebooks: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan Book cover of Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France Book cover of Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England Book cover of The Trial of Madame Caillaux Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Angela Simms The best books on how the Black middle class reveals the racial reality of the United States Book cover of Black Picket Fences Book cover of Blue-Chip Black Book cover of The New Noir Book cover of Black Power in the Suburbs Book cover of Behind the Mule
  • Angela Stienne The best books to explain why there’s an Egyptian mummy in your back garden Book cover of The Mummy's Foot Book cover of The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie Book cover of Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain Book cover of The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it Book cover of Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
  • Jeroen Dewulf The best books in Atlantic cultural history Book cover of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 Book cover of National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance Book cover of Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World Book cover of Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition Book cover of Origins of a Creole: The History of Papiamentu and Its African Ties
  • Curdella Forbes The best genre-busting books about love and other improbable things Book cover of Love After Love Book cover of What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You Book cover of Gorée: Point of Departure Book cover of The Dutch House Book cover of Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Christian Pinnen The best books on race and slavery in the colonial lower Mississippi Valley Book cover of Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Book cover of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World Book cover of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana Book cover of Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana Book cover of Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803
  • Jendella Benson The best books to introduce you to Black London Book cover of Rosewater Book cover of Small Worlds Book cover of Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London Book cover of East of Acre Lane Book cover of The Lonely Londoners
  • Ana Lucia Araujo The best books on the material culture of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism Book cover of A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution Book cover of Making Money: Life, Death, and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast Book cover of Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality Book cover of The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo Book cover of Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
  • Joan Steinau Lester The best books on biracial marriage/families that take fascinating angles Book cover of The Vanishing Half Book cover of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets Book cover of Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White Book cover of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Book cover of The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
  • Kellie Carter Jackson The best books that center on black resistance to white supremacy with a path toward liberation Book cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Book cover of Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Book cover of In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action Book cover of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Book cover of Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
  • Elias Rodriques The best and most recent fiction by Jamaican women writers Book cover of These Ghosts Are Family Book cover of How to Love a Jamaican: Stories Book cover of The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Book cover of Patsy Book cover of Queenie
  • Eugen Bacon The best cultural anthologies in speculative fiction Book cover of Mothersound Book cover of Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions Book cover of African Ghost Short Stories Book cover of Ex Marginalia Book cover of Sinophagia
  • Kyoko M. The best books to celebrate Juneteenth that aren’t about black pain Book cover of Blackened Roots Book cover of Earthrise Book cover of Muscadine Wine Book cover of Better Angels Book cover of When Night Falls: Book One Of The Three Gifts
  • Ignacio López-Calvo The best books about transpacific studies and Asian-Latin American exchanges and cultural production Book cover of Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/O America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 Book cover of Between Empires: Martí, Rizal, and the Intercolonial Alliance Book cover of Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean Book cover of The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature Book cover of East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies
  • Manu Herbstein The best books for a deep dive into the Transatlantic slave trade Book cover of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Book cover of Elmina, 'The Little Europe': European Impact and Cultural Resilience Book cover of Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora Book cover of Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 Book cover of To Be a Slave in Brazil: 1550-1888
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