Reading List for Black History Month

and for the rest of the year as well

1. Afrofuturism / Black Futurism

   a. Kodwo Eshun, Further Considerations on Afrofuturism

   b.Grace Gipson, Creating and Imagining Black Futures through Afrofuturism

   c. Black Native Identity & Futurity

2. Sociology / Gender Studies

   a. The White Gaze vs. the Black Soul

   b. African Gender Studies

   c. Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

   d. Ain’t I a Woman

   e. Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas

   f. Bringing Flesh to Theory: Ethnography, Black Queer Theory, and Studying Black Sexualities

   g. Strong, female and Black: Stereotypes of African Caribbean women’s body shape and their effects on clinical encounters

3. Architecture Studies and Black Spaces

   a. The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race: Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape

   b. Non-Western Sacred Sites: African Models

   c. Reimagining Blackness and Architecture

   I will take time to update the list further during the week. I am always open to recommendations, suggestions and/or modifications. If you have time, there are also short courses offered by Coursera, to educate yourself properly about Black History, Culture, Arts etc. and remember that theory is only valuable alongside praxis.