This year’s Black History Month theme, ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’, honours the resilience, strength, and pursuit of progress that continues to define the Black community worldwide. The theme celebrates the extraordinary contributions of Black leaders, activists, and pioneers who have shaped history, while also looking ahead to a future rooted in empowerment, unity, and growth.
To mark the occasion, we’ve curated a selection of books and free to read journal articles that offer fresh and critical perspectives on Black history and culture. Explore the list below.
Journals from Liverpool University Press
The following journal articles have been made Free to Read throughout October to celebrate Black History Month:
- Abigail E Celis, ‘Marking Whiteness, Unmarking Blackness: Listening and Looking in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse and Amandine Gay’s Ouvrir la voix‘, French Studies (2022)
- Kathleen Chater, ‘The Guerin family: a footnote in Black British history’, Huguenot Society Journal (2019)
- Donna Palmateer Pennee, ‘Writing Canada’s antebellum Black history: the work of Fred Landon’, British Journal of Canadian Studies (2022)
- Suzie Telep, ‘Performing an ethos of a dominant Black woman in Paris through body and language: passing at the intersection of race, gender, and class’, CFC Intersections (2022)
- Jamie Sexton, ‘Everything About Being Indie Is All Tied to Not Being Black’: Indie Music, Race, and Identity in Medicine for Melancholy and Pariah‘ , Music, Sound and the Moving Image (2022)
- Vincent Lloyd, ‘Achille Mbembe as Black Theologian’ , Modern Believing (2016)
Browse a selection of our books on Black History:
A global labour history written through the immigrant leadership of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU), Militant Migrants rehabilitates Clements Kadalie’s mass organising throughout interwar Southern Africa.
Race and Theatre in France: by Sylvie Chalaye
Edited and translated by Judith G. Miller
Through documentation, historical analysis, close attention to productions, and witnessing by Black Francophone artists, Chalaye uncovers and critiques the unacknowledged racialization (and racism) that have circumscribed the careers of Black actors.
Tale of Black Histories: A Translation and Critical Edition
Translated and edited by Andrew Daily and Emily Sahakian
This first English translation of Histoire de Nègre by Édouard Glissant reveals Glissant’s early intellectual and aesthetic development and offers a landmark model of Caribbean consciousness-raising theatre.
Mad Fictions: Psychiatry, Disability and the Politics of Mental Distress in African Literature
Femi Eromosele
Mad Fictions explores madness in African literature, highlighting lived experiences, social justice, and nationalist contexts. The book offers a critical intervention in how madness is analyzed within African literary studies.
Televising Transnational Trauma: Visions and Versions of Slavery in the Americas
Myriam Mompoint
Televising Transnational Trauma examines how TV series across the Anglophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Francophone worlds portray the traumatic history of slavery in the Americas.
Legacies of Enslavement in the French Republic: Politics, Activism, Reparation
Nicola Frith
Legacies of Enslavement and the French Republic explores 25 years of activism addressing France’s colonial past, highlighting social change and critically examining the State’s responses to African enslavement.
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Latest in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series
Fontes Historiae Africanae/ Sources of African History is an international editing and publication project which was initiated in 1962 to organise a series of the sources of the history of sub-Saharan Africa.
Recently published:
- Great Sogolon’s House edited by David Courtney Conrad is an extraordinary version of the Sunjata epic; an extravagant demonstration of the extremes to which Mande bardic artistry can be carried.
- The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms by Mauro Nobili, Zachary V. Wright, and Ali Diakité is a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Liverpool Distribution Services:
Black History at University of Georgia Press
University of Georgia Press publish outstanding works on Civil Rights, Black America, and twentieth-century American history. Series include Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South, UnCivil Wars and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and are available through Liverpool Distribution Services.
Highlights include:
- A Monument to Blackness by Hannah E. Jeffery explores the history of Black muralism in the U.S. from the 1930s to today.
- Protest and Pedagogy by Alexander D. Hyres examines how Black high school teachers and students in Charlottesville and across the U.S. used protest and pedagogy to drive the Black freedom struggle.
- Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States.
- Protesting with Rosa Parks by John K. Bollard details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of 190 years.
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