It’s that time of year again! Since 2017 I’ve compiled a list of books written by or about Black women and Black feminism. This year’s list is somewhat short, likely due to delayed publication dates for some projects.
As always, please contact me if you don’t see a book on the list. The only requirement is that it was published in 2020 and written by or about Black women or Black feminism throughout the diaspora. Most of these books are written by U.S.-based authors, so suggestions written by non-U.S. authors are most welcome!
- Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays – Maisha S. Akbar
- Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy – April Baker-Bell
- A Black Women’s History of the United States – Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism – Barbara Boswell
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America– Marcia Chatelain
- Demystifying the Engineering PhD – Monica Cox
- Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920 – Le’Trice D. Donaldson
- Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic – Erika Edwards
- Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America – Brigitte Fielder
- Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement – Tiffany N. Florvil
- Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press – Kim Gallon
- The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation – Thavolia Glymph
- Intersectional Tech: The Transmediated Praxis of Black Users in Digital Gaming – Kishonna Gray
- Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals – Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting – Patricia Hamilton
- The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America – Kimberly C. Harper
- Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture – Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
- Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World – Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
- The Age of Phillis – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World – Jessica Marie Johnson
- Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry – Angela Jones
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All – Martha S. Jones
- Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire – Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
- Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice – Zakiya Luna
- From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture – Koritha Mitchell
- Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France– Robin Mitchell
- Laughing to Keep From Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-first Century – Danielle Fuentes Morgan
- Dengos e zangas das mulheres-moringas: vivências afetivo-sexuais de mulheres negras – Bruna Pereira
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies – Deesha Philyaw
- Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights– Samantha Pinto
- »Schwarze Schwester Angela« – Die DDR und Angela Davis: Kalter Krieg, Rassismus und Black Power 1965-1975 – Heidelberg University’s Faculty of Philosophy
- Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism – Allissa V. Richardson
- Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon – Jeremy Schipper and Nyasha Junior
- Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen– Samantha N. Sheppard
- Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage – Dianne M. Stewart
- Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty – Cheryl Thompson
- Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity – Artress Bethany White
- Steve Biko: The Radical Gospel of Black Consciousness – Traci D. Wyatt
Thank you to the following people for submitting additional titles: Linda Garber; Patricia Hamilton; Andre E. Johnson; Bruna Pereira; Ariel Stevenson; Artress Bethany White;
