Image: Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay, addressing the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, Moscow, 1922. Separate resource pages on major figures such as McKay are forthcoming. To be notified of new releases, join the Patreon or follow on Facebook.
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Hakim Adi: Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939.
B.D. Amis: B.D. Amis: African American Radical: A Short Anthology of Writings and Speeches.
Gregg Andrews: Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle.
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.
David Beasley: A Life in Red: A Story of Forbidden Love, The Great Depression, and the Communist Fight for a Black Nation in the Deep South.
Maria De Los Reyes Castillo Bueno: Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century.
Joy Gleason Carew: Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise.
Carole Boyce Davies: Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones.
Robeson Taj Frazier: The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination.
Dayo F. Gore: Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War.
Harry Haywood: Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist.
Christian Høgsbjerg: C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain.
Gary Edward Holcomb: Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance.
Gerald Horne:
- Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle.
- Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party.
Hosea Hudson & Nell Irvin Painter: The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical.
Langston Hughes: I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990.
C.L.R. James: A History of Pan-African Revolt.
Winston James: Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, 1889-1923.
Howard Eugene Johnson: A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club.
Yasuhiro Katagiri: Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South.
Robin D.G. Kelley:
- Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.
- Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
Clarence Lang & Robbie Lieberman: Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: Another Side of the Story.
Patrice Lumumba: May our People Triumph: Poem, Speeches & Interviews.
Minkah Makalani: In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939.
William Maxwell: New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars.
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.
Karen Y. Morrison: Cuba’s Racial Crucible: The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000.
Mark Naison: Communists in Harlem during the Depression.
Cedric Robinson: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.
Robert Robinson: Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union.
James Edward Smethurst: The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946.
Homer Smith: Black Man in Red Russia: A Memoir.
Mark Soloman: The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936: Communists and African Americans, 1917-36.
Mary Stanton: Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950.
Margaret Stevens: Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939.
Mary Helen Washington: The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s.
James Zeigler: Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism.