To be clear – Black history is in the making every day and should thus be celebrated every day, but we still want to take the opportunity of Black History Month 2023 to highlight Black feminist voices. In the last year, our team has grown quite a bit – with that comes more people to ask about their favourite essays, books, poems and articles! We did exactly that and compiled the second edition of CFFP’s Black Feminist Reading List for you. You can download it below. If you’re based in Germany and want to order one of the books online while still supporting local bookshops, consider www.genialokal.de.
And if that’s not enough for you, make sure you have a look at the first edition which also includes podcasts. Enjoy!
CFFP’s favourites 2.0
- Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, 1981, bell hooks
- Algorithms of Oppression, 2018, Safiya Umoja Noble
- Assata: An Autobiography, 1988, Assata Shakur
- Binti, 2015, Nnedi Okorafor
- Black Cake, 2022, Charmaine Wilkerson
- Call Us What We Carry, 2021, Amanda Gorman
- Daughters of Africa, 1992, Margaret Busby (ed.)
- Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, 2021, Akwaeke Emezi
- Efuru, 1966, Flora Nwapa
- European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, 2011, Fatima El-Tayeb
- Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, 2018, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, 2015, Angela Davis
- His Only Wife, 2020, Peace Adzo Medie
- Hood Feminism, 2020, Mikki Kendall
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, 2017, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- If They Come in the Morning: Voices of resistance, 1971, Angela Davis
- Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, 1987, Ifi Amadiume
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, 2020, Ijeoma Oluo
- Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, 2021, Michaela Coel
- Mobilising Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the making of a transnational movement, 2020, Tiffany Florvil
- Nervous Conditions, 1988, Tsitsi Dangaremba
- Rassismus. Strukturelle Probleme brauchen strukturelle Lösungen!, 2021, Natasha A. Kelly (German)
- Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, 2021, Minna Salami
- The Girl with the Louding Voice, 2020, Abi Daré
- The Intersectional Environmentalist, 2022, Leah Thomas
- The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, 1997, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
- The Other Black Girl, 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris
- There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities, 2018, Ingrid R. G. Waldron
- Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, 2020, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, 2019, Sadiya Hartman
- Why We Matter: Das Ende der Unterdrückung, 2021, Emilia Roig (German)
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 1982, Audre Lorde