Black History Month Reading List 2022

As part of our Black History Month social media initiatives, we at FERA have compiled a reading list, just in time for February reading week! These works have been recommended by FERA's executive, committee, and general members. Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments!

Books

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie

Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism

By bell hooks

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beloved

By Toni Morrison

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo, Julia Osuna Aguilar (translator)

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By Mikki Kendall

The Other Black Girl

by Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power

by Desmond Cole

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

by Eternity Martis

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Women, Race & Class

by Angela Y. Davis

Essays

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

by Zadie Smith

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators

by bell hooks