Featured image: From the American Negro Labor Congress: A Call to Action, 1925.
See also these reading lists from the African American Intellectual and Historical Society: Keisha Blain’s A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, as well as Part II of that bibliography (consisting of new texts published between 2016-2019), and Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson’s Readings on Transnational African American History, which categorize the readings by subject.
Hakim Adi: Pan-Africanism: A History.
Hakim Adi: Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939.
Carol Anderson: Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955.
Carol Anderson: Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960.
Gregg Andrews: Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle (Volume 1).
David Henry Anthony III: Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior.
David Austin: Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal.
Sarah Azaransky: This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement.
Davarian Baldwin and Minkah Makalani: Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem.
Kate Baldwin: Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963.
Fitzroy Baptiste & Rupert Lewis (editors): Caribbean Reasonings: George Padmore, Pan-African Revolutionary.
Kenneth C. Barnes: Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.
Monique Bedasse: Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization.
Keisha Blain: Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom.
Keisha Blain & Tiffany Gill (editors): To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism.
Thomas Borstelmann: The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena.
Lisa Brock: Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution.
Rudolph P. Byrd: Jean Toomer’s Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist, 1923-1936.
James T. Campbell: Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.
Joy Gleason Carew: Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.
Claude Andrew Clegg III: The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia.
Peter Cole: Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Marlene Daut: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism.
Carole Boyce Davies: Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones.
James Davis: Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean.
Mary Dudziak: Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
Mary Dudziak: Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey.
Ira Dworkin: Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State.
Brent Hayes Edwards: The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism.
Adam Ewing: The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics.
Adam Ewing & Ronald J. Stephens (editors): Global Garveyism.
Michel Fabre: From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980.
Ashley Farmer: Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era.
Robeson Taj Frazier: The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination.
Kevin Gaines: American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era.
Marc Gallicchio: The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945.
Anne Garland Mahler: From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity.
Adom Getachew: Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.
Félix Germain: Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974.
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness.
Keith Gilyard: Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice.
Dayo Gore: Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War.
Nicholas Grant: Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960.
Frank Andre Guridy: Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow.
Matthew Pratt Guterl: Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe.
Harry Haywood: Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist.
Claudrena N. Harold: The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-1942.
Joseph E. Harris: African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia 1936-1941.
Robert A. Hill & Edmond J. Keller: Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa.
Darlene Clark Hine & Jacqueline McLeod (editors): Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora.
Vincent Intondi: African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement.
Fred Ho and Bill Mullen: Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans.
Christian Høgsbjerg: C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain.
Gerald Horne:
- Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle.
C.L.R. James: A History of Pan-African Revolt.
Winston James: Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America.
Jennifer Jones, Tianna S. Paschel, & Petra Rivera-Rideau (editors): Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas.
Reginald Kearney: African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition?
Robin D. G. Kelley & Sidney Lemelle (editors): Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora.
Brendan I. Koerner: Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.
Azza Salama Layton: International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960.
John Lowney: Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music.
Daniel S. Lucks: Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.
David Luis-Brown: Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.
Sean Malloy: Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War.
Seth Markle: A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964–1974.
Marc Matera: Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century.
Minkah Makalani: In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939.
Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones: Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line.
William G. Martin, Michael O. West, & Fanon Che Wilkins: From Toussaint to Tupac: the Black International since the Age of Revolution.
Erik S. McDuffie: Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.
Rosemari Mealy: Fidel & Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting.
James Hunter Meriwether: Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961.
Bill Mullen: Afro Orientalism.
Bill Mullen: Un-American: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Century of World Revolution.
Bill Mullen & Cathryn Watson (editors): W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line.
John Munro: The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960.
Professor Nadia Nurhussein: Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America.
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo: Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas.
Yuichiro Onishi: Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa.
Sedat Pakay: James Baldwin in Turkey: Bearing Witness from Another Place.
Kennetta Hammond Perry: London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race.
Melinda Plastas: A Band of Noble Women: Racial Politics in the Women’s Peace Movement.
Brenda Gayle Plummer: Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960.
Brenda Gayle Plummer: In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974.
Brenda Gayle Plummer (editor): Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, & Foreign Affairs 1945-1988.
Millery Polyné: From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964.
Vijay Prashad: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.
Lara Putnam: Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age.
Barbara Ransby: Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson.
Heike Raphael-Hernandez & Shannon Steen: Afro Asian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics.
Vaughn Rasberry: Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination.
Russell Rickford: We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.
Cedric Robinson: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.
Meredith L. Roman: Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937.
Jonathan Rosenberg: How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam.
Julius Scott: The Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery.
William A. Shack: Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars.
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting: Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars.
Nico Slate: Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India.
Nico Slate: The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover.
Nico Slate (editor): Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement.
Michelle Ann Stephens: Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962.
Margaret Stevens: Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939.
Tyler Stovall: Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light.
Quito J. Swan: Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice.
Quito J. Swan: Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization.
Lindsey R. Swindall: The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955.
Benjamin Talton: In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics.
Ula Taylor: The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey.
Christopher Tinson: Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s.
W. Burghardt Turner & Joyce Moore Turner (editors): Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings, 1920-1972.
Imaobong Umoren: Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles.
Vanessa K. Valdés: Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
Robert Vitalis: White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations.
Penny M. Von Eschen: Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957.
Penny M. Von Eschen: Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War.
Irma Watkins-Owens: Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900–1930.
Bianca Williams: The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era.
Magdalena J. Zaborowska: Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France.
Magdalena J. Zaborowska: James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile.
Andrew Zimmerman: Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South.