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:
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.