Resources on the Black Experience

On this page, you will find resources on the Black Experience. If you have additional resources that you would like to submit for consideration for this page, please email diversegwu [dot] edu.

Books

• Collins, P. H. (2002). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge. 
• Lorde, A. (2012). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. Crossing Press.
• Hurston, Z. N. (1991). Their eyes were watching God. University of Illinois Press.
• Brown, R. N. (2013). Hear our truths: The creative potential of Black girlhood University of Illinois Press.

Articles

• The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement
• Miller-Young, M. (2010). Putting hypersexuality to work: Black women and illicit eroticism in pornography. Sexualities, 13 (2), 219-235
• Lindsey, T. B. (2013). “One time for my girls”: African-American girlhood, empowerment, and popular visual culture. Journal of African American Studies, 17(1), 22-34.
• Blackgirl, One Word: Necessary Transgressions in the Name of Imagining Black Girlhood
• Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth by Ruth Nicole Brown 
• Black Trans* Lives Matter by D-L Stewart
• African American women stand out as working moms play a larger economic role in families
• Our Grandmothers Maya Angelou
• Equating Black Girls With Bad Attitudes Is Not the Answer
• Put Some Respect On Our Name: Why Every Black & Brown Girl Needs to Learn About Radical Feminist Leadership 
• As a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always Political
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics
• How Slavery Affected African American Families
• Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
• Brittney Cooper Breaks Down Black Feminism
• Womanist: Alice Walker's Term for Black Feminism

Podcasts

• Pod Save The People 
• Small Doses
• Therapy for Black Girls 
• Ya Gay Aunties 
• Halfway Bougie 
• The Read 
• Gettin Grown
• Black Girl Podcast 
• Balanced Black Girl 
• With That Being Said  
• Affirm
• A Different Perspective 
• The Black Girl Healing Project Podcast
• The Friend Zone 
• Silence Is Not An Option - Don Lemon
• Up First 
• Stuff You Missed In History Class
• 7am Podcast
• Revisionist History 
• Pod Save America 
• Still Processing  

Film and Other Media

• Eight Black Women Discuss the Politics of Skin Tone 
• When they See Us -Ava DuVernay
• Chewing Gum
• Atlanta 
• POSE 
• Harriet  
• Queen and Slim
• Blind Spotting 
• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
• Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Malcom X
• Daughters of the Dust 
• I am The Chi 
• Insecure 
• The Hate You Give
• Being Serena 
• Fences  
• Hidden Figures 
•  For Colored Girls 
• Strong Island
• Dope 
• Moonlight 
• Pariah
• The History of Juneteenth 
• Miss Juneteenth 
• Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, PBS based on book by Douglas Blackmon
• Reconstruction, PBS based on book by Eric Foner
• BOSS: The Black Experience in Business, PBS documentary
• I’m Not Racist... Am I?
• The 13th Documentary
• Get Out