Every June in the U.S. is heralded as National Caribbean American Heritage Month, since Congresswoman Barbara Lee and the Institute of Caribbean Studies advocating a bill for its recognition that was approved by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in 2006. We marked this #CAHM with a special series #30DaysOfStrictlyFactsReads. In case you missed the series on social media, be sure to check out our Caribbean history book recommendations below!
Capitalism & Slavery – by Eric Williams
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 - by Lucille Mathurin Mair
The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora - by Gloria Wekker
The Chinese in the West Indies: A Documentary History – by Walton Look Lai
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm – by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón
The Wretched of the Earth – by Frantz Fanon
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye - by Andaiye and Alissa Trotz
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - by C.L.R. James
Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance And Accommodation, 1838-1920 – by Lamarsh Roopnarine
Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica – by Deborah A. Thomas
A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States - by Isaac Dookhan and Richard B. Sheridan
The History of Mary Prince – by Mary Prince
Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago: A History – by Rhoda Reddock
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays - by Edouard Glissant
Writing Gender Into the Caribbean: Selected Essays 1988 to 2020 – by Patricia Mohammed
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective – by Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Rock It Come over: The Folk Music of Jamaica – by Olive Lewin
Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings) – by Stuart Hall
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition – by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity (Latin America in Translation) – by Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra
Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions – by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Cricket without A Cause – by Hilary McD Beckle
The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology – by Anténor Firmin
Race, Class, Politics and the Struggle for Empowerment in Barbados, 1914-1937 – by David V.C. Browne
Women in Caribbean Politics – by Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Prehistoric Guiana – by Denis Williams
Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture – by Brenda F. Berrian
The Groundings With My Brothers – by Walter Rodney
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal – by Olive Senior
Making Waves: How the West Indies Shaped the United States – by Debbie Jacob