Black History Month: Books To Read To Support Black Authors
February is Black History Month and I would like to highlight a couple of black authors from romance novels to learning about systematic racial oppression. Here are 5 black authors to support this Black History month!
Bell Hooks “All About Love: New Visions”
Bell Hooks is a black author, theorist, educator, and social critic. She primary focus on interconnectedness of race, feminism, and class. Her book “All About Love: New Visions” explore several themes including the difference between infatuation and love, the importance of self-love, and the interconnectedness of love and justice.
2. Alan Pelaez Lopez “to love and mourn in the age of displacement”
Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous (Zapotec) poet, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México. Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented migrants in the United States, the Black condition in Latin America, and the intimate kinship units that trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence.
3. Jasmine Guillory “The Proposal”
Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author of novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese's Book Club selection The Proposal, and Drunk on Love. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. The proposal is cute romance novel and I quote “When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn’t come as a surprise — or happen in front of 45,000 people.”
4. Jayne Allen “Black Girls Must Be Magic”
Jayne Allen (pen name), in her life outside of writing, is a serial entrepreneur, Harvard-trained attorney, and engineer. "Black Girls Must Be Magic is In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life’s challenges and a happy surprise—a baby—with a little help and lots of love from friends old and new.
5. Michelle Alexander “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — the bestselling book that helped to transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice in the United States.
