Black History Month: Black Joy to Black Liberation
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To mark Black History Month we've partnered with Edinburgh Uni's BME Officer Maryam Yusuf to collate a list of recommended reads to expand your understanding of Black History, Black experiences and Black writing more generally.
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- Rethinking Africa : Indigenous Women Re-Interpret Southern African pasts
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- Muthien, Bernedette
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- History of Islam in Africa
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- Levtzion, Nehemia, Pouwels, Randall L.
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- Whispering Out Loud: Voices Of Africana
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- Tillotson, Michael
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- Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
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- French, Howard W.
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- Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa : Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
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- Lumumba-Kasonga, Tukumbi
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- The New Black Middle Class in South Africa
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- Southall, Roger (Customer)
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- What Britain Did to Nigeria : A Short History of Conquest and Rule
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- Siollun, Max
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- Brazil: Mixture Or Massacre?
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- Nascimento, Abdias do
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- The Last Slave Ships : New York and the End of the Middle Passage
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- Harris, John
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- The Color of Money : Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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- Baradaran, Mehrsa
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- African Europeans : An Untold History
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- Otele, Olivette
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- African and Caribbean People in Britain : A History
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- Adi, Hakim
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- Uncommon Wealth : Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
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- Koram, Kojo
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- This is the Canon : Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books
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- Anim-Addo, Joan, Osborne, Deirdre, Sesay George, Kadija
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- The Lamplighter
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- Kay, Jackie
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- Open Water
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- Caleb Azumah
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- Carefree Black Girls : A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture
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- Blay, Zeba, Amfo, Clara
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- What White People Can Do Next : From Allyship to Coalition
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- Dabiri, Emma
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- Crosshairs
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- Catherine Hernandez
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- Children of Blood and Bone
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- Adeyemi, Tomi
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- Get a life, Chloe Brown
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- Talia Hibbert
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- Love in Colour
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- Babalola, Bolu
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- Sista Sister
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- Brathwaite, Candice
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- The Essential June Jordan
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- Trust, The June Jordan Literary Estate, Keller, Christoph, Levi, Jan Heller, Brown, Jericho
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- The Bluest Eye
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- Morrison, Toni
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- Slay In Your Lane : The Black Girl Bible
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- Adegoke, Yomi, Uviebinene, Elizabeth
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- Black Joy
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- Brinkhurst-Cuff, Charlie, Various, Sotire, Timi
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- Women, Race & Class
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- Davis, Angela Y.
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- Heart Of The Race : Black Women's Lives in Britain
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- Bryan, Beverley, Dadzie, Stella, Scafe, Suzanne
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- Sister Outsider
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- Lorde, Audre
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- We Still Here : Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
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- Hill, Marc Lamont, Barat, Frank, Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
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- Quicksand & Passing : Two Novellas
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- Larsen, Nella
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- Wide Sargasso Sea
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- Rhys, Jean