Inspired by
Melissa Harris-Perry's black feminism syllabus over at Feministing I've put together a version geared toward the specific experiences of being both black and Hispanic in the U.S.A and beyond.
- Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews
- Daughters of the Stone: A Novel by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
- Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 by Kathryn Joy McKnight
- The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States by Miriam Jiménez Román
- Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora by Marta Moreno Vega
- Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- The African Presence in Santo Domingo by Carlos Andujar
- Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies by Claudia Milian
- Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America by Antonio Lopez
- The African Experience in Spanish America by Leslie B., Jr. Rout
- Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil by Edward E. Telles
- Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century by Maria De Los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, Anne McLean
- Autobiography of a Slave Autobiografia de un esclavo by Juan Francisco
- Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon and Richard Philcox
- Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat and Michelle Cliff
- Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende
- Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity by Professor Kia Lilly Caldwell
- Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba by Mark Q. Sawyer
- Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place Paperback by Lowell Gudmundson, Justin Wolfe
- Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia by Peter Wade
- Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
- Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition SÏ€o Paolo and Salvador by Kim D. Butler
- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Peter Wade
- Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E. B. Candelario
- Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands by Kiran Asher
- Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico by Christina A. Sue
- Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times by Ben Vinson
- Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina by Solimar Otero, Toyin Falola
- Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos by Anani Dzidzienyo
- Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas by Bernd Reiter
- Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 by Suzanne Bost
What would you add? Let me know especially fiction and literature...
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