See: Robin M. Boylorn, “On Being at Home with Myself: Blackgirl Autoethnography as Research Praxis,” International Review of Qualitative Research 9, no. 1 (2016): 44–58; Ruth Nicole Brown, Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013); Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019); bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Boston: South End Press, 1993); Jennifer C. Nash, “Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality,” Meridians 11, no. 2 (2013): 1–24; Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (San Diego: Harcourt, 1983).
Chinyere Okafor, “Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism,” Meridians 16, no. 2 (2018): 373–381.
Marcus Anthony Hunter, Mary Pattillo, Zandria F. Robinson, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry,” Theory, Culture & Society 33, no. 7–8 (2016): 31–56.
ThisisSignified, “SIGNIFIED: Alexis Pauline Gumbs,” YouTube, September 7, 2012, ➝.
See: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Introduction,” in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, ed. Rebecca Walker (New York: Catapult, 2012); Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020); Mychal Denzel Smith, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education (New York: Bold Type Books, 2016).
Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).
See: Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018); Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness, eds. Andrea Smith, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Jenell Navarro (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).
See: Brandi Thompson Summers, Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019); Ashanté M. Reese, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
See: M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005); Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
See: Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism (Milton Park: Routledge, 2004); bell hooks, “Homeplace (A site of resistance),” in Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1990), 41–49.
Okafor, “Black Feminism Embodiment.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937).
Barbara Smith, “A Press of Our Own Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 10, no. 3 (1989): 11–13.
See: Satoshi Kanazawa, “Why Black Women Are Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women,” Psychology Today, May 16, 2011 (article has been redacted due to controversy); Akiba Solomon, “The Pseudoscience of ‘Black Women Are Less Attractive,’” Colorlines, May 17, 2011, ➝.
See: Maxine Leeds Craig, Ain't I a beauty queen?: Black women, beauty, and the politics of race (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015); Noliwe M. Rooks, Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996).
Joshua Espinoza, “Stream Jill Scott and Erykah Badu’s ‘Verzuz’ Battle,” Complex, May 10, 2020, ➝.
Naima Cochrane, “Jill Scott vs. Erykah Badu ‘Verzuz’ Battle of Neo-Soul Titans: See Billboard’s Scorecard and Winner For the Showdown,” Billboard, May 10, 2020, ➝.
God-is Rivera (@GodisRivera), “I hope after tonight folks really understand and appreciate what Brandy and Monica gave to young Black girls in the 90s. They gave us songs to have our first crushes to, songs to fall in love to, songs to get thru our first heartbreak. They gave us a vision of ourselves #Verzuz,” Twitter, August 31, 2020, ➝.
Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing.