Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas

Marcel Griaule

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

Ytasha L. Womack

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Richard Marshall

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

Tricia Rose

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism (Discovering America)

Paul Youngquist

After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party

Noel Hankin

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

Free Jazz (The Roots of Jazz)

Ekkehard Jost

Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey

Dorothy Patricia Chin

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Sylviane A. Diouf

Third Wave

Alvin Toffler

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook

James Boggs

Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music (Mit Press)

Maria Eriksson

May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

Imani Perry

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture)

Saidiya Hartman

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner

Saidiya Hartman

Music Is History

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction

Kodwo Eshun

Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity

Tsitsi Jaji

Assembling a Black Counter Culture

DeForrest Brown

The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground Week by Week By Vince Aletti

Vince Aletti

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Tricia Rose

Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979

Tim Lawrence