Faisal Abdu’Allah: DARK MATTER Reading List

Videos

• Facet of the Community Film
• Barbering the Art, Dir. Andy Mundy Castle
• The Fade, Dir. Andy Mundy Castle

Books

• Black Folk Tales by Julius Lester
• How to Teach West Indian Children English (UK)
• Black Book by Toni Morrison
• They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
• Secret Society
• 3 Black Panther First Edition Comics
• Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch (UK)
• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (UK)*
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (UK)
• The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• Cutting Along the Color Line by Quincy T. Mills
• Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (UK)
• Madison Uncut: Incarcerated Tears by DD Armstrong (UK)
• Nature Knows No Color-Line by Joel Augustus Rogers
• REPRESENTATION by Stuart Hall (UK)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Art for a Few by Jackie McManus (UK)
• Before Color Prejudice by Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
• A Change is Gonna Come by Craig Hansen Werner
• Black and British by David Olusoga
• Nina Simone, Autobiography
• Gordon Parks, Autobiography
• Malcom X, Autobiography
• Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Marley and Me: The Real Bob Marley Story by Don Taylor
• Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
• How the Arts Can Save Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Instruction by Erica Rosenfeld Halverson
• Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack by Paul Gilroy (UK)
• Welcome to the Jungle by Kobena Mercer

Additional Book List

• Alexander, C. (1996). The Art of Being Black. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Araeen, R. ed. (1989). The Other Story: Afro- Asian Artists in Post War Britain.
• Bleich, E. (2003). Race Politics in Britain and France. Cambridge University Press.
• David Butler, D. and Reiss, V. eds. (2007). The Art of Negotiation. Cornerhouse /Arts Council England.
• Golden, T. (1994). Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. New York.
• Hall, S. (2005). Assembling the 1980: The deluge-and after. Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s in Britain.
• Hall, S. (2006). Black diaspora artists in Britain: Three ‘moments’ in post-war history
• Hall, S. and Sealy, M. (2001). A Historical Context, Contemporary Photographers and Black Identity.
• Hegel, G. W. F. (2002). The philosophy of history (1899).
• Hooks, B. (1995). Reconstructing black masculinity. In: Perchuk, A and Posner, H. eds.
• Ligon, G. (1995). A Feast of scraps. In: Perchuk, A. and Posner. H. eds.
• The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Locke, A. ed. (1997). The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Lord, C. ed. (1993). Theatre of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism.
• McMillan, M. (2009). Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home. Black Dog Publishing.
• Mercer, K. (2005). Iconography after identity. In: Bailey, D. A., Baucom, I, and Boyce, S. eds. Shades of Black. Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain. John Hope Franklin Centre Book. Duke University Press.
• Pieterse, J. N. (1992). White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture
• Snowden, F. (1971). Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience
• Tawadros, G. and Clarke, V. eds. (1999). Black art now. In: Chamber, E. (Annotations 5)
• Thompson, R. (2007). Emancipation of Jamaica. In: Barringer, T; Forrester, G.

Sample Song List

1. Glen Lewis – Faceless
2. Soulive & Karl Denson – Povo from SPARK!
3. Herbie Hancock – Chameleon
4. Kool & the Gang – Summer Madness*
5. Mila J – Kickin’ Back*
6. Outkast – SpottieOttieDopaliscious
7. De La Soul – Much More*
8. Jeffery Osbourne – Love Ballad*
9. Jhene Akio – Stay Ready
10. SZA – Doves in the Wind (Ft. Kendrick Lamar)
11. Taurus Riley – Love Created I
12. Bob Marley – Duppy Conqueror
13. Dennis Brown – Wolf & Leopards
14. Minnie Riperton – Inside my Love (Bootleg by UCP Berlin)*
15. Minnie Riperton – Inside my Love*
16. Kenny Dope – Who Loves You More (Ft. Raheem Devaughn)
17. Keni Burke – Keep Rising to the top
18. Lira – Hamba
19. Louis Hayes – Kelly Colors
20. Johnny Hammond – Star Borne
21. Earth, Wind & Fire – You Want My Love (Ft. Lucky Daye)
22. Silk Sonic – Love’s Train
23. Con Funk Shun – Love’s Train
24. DJ Jazzy Jeff – For the Love of the Game
25. Tank and The Bangas – Black Folk (Ft. Masego)
26. Evil Needle – Delight
27. Michael Manson – Lovely Day
28. The Blackbyrds – Mysterious Vibes
29. Grand Puba – I Like It
30. Summer Walker – Still Over it

Films

• Yellow Jazz Black Music, Marketus Presswood
• The Cry of Jazz, a 1959 documentary film by Ed Bland
• Black Like Me
• Come Back Charleston Blue
• Sapphire (1959)
• Flame in the Streets (1961)
• The Learning Tree (1969)
• Killer of Sheep
• Black Girl
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door
• The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

Youth Books

• Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams
• Black Panther #1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard
• Shuri by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Mysterious Thelonius by Chris Raschka
• My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi Cabrera
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
• The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy is Enlightening by Chris Raschka
• Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia
• Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey
• The Falcon by Frank Berrios
• Wanda by Mathabo Tlali and Sihle Nontshokweni