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. KelleyÂ
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Discourse on Colonialism by AimĂŠ CĂŠsaire
The Belly by Tchicaya U TamâsiÂ
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Uses of the Erotic by Audre LordeÂ
Communion by bell hooksÂ
The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Assata Shakur
A Black Womenâs History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Mouth of Rain Anthology by Various Writers
Small Island by Andrea LevyÂ
In the Company of Men by VĂŠronique Tadjo
Death and the Kingâs 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 CĂŠsaire
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 âŚ. dir. Ousmane Sembène
Get Out dir. Jordan Peele
Iâm 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
Anansiâs Library
Black Art Movements
AfrosurrealismÂ
NĂŠgritude
Harlem Renaissance
Black Artists
Jean Michel Basquiat
Kara Walker
Kool Keith
Ekow Nimako
Sun Ra
HarmoniaÂ


















