Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month Reading Some of Our Favorite Books

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!

1. Capitalism & Slavery – by Eric Williams

2. A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 - by Lucille Mathurin Mair

3. The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora - by Gloria Wekker

4. The Chinese in the West Indies: A Documentary History – by Walton Look Lai

5. Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm – by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

6. The Wretched of the Earth – by Frantz Fanon

7. The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye - by Andaiye and Alissa Trotz

8. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - by C.L.R. James

9. Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance And Accommodation, 1838-1920 – by Lamarsh Roopnarine

10. Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica – by Deborah A. Thomas

11. A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States - by Isaac Dookhan and Richard B. Sheridan

12. The History of Mary Prince – by Mary Prince

13. Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago: A History – by Rhoda Reddock

14. Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays - by Edouard Glissant

15. Writing Gender Into the Caribbean: Selected Essays 1988 to 2020 – by Patricia Mohammed

16. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective – by Antonio Benitez-Rojo

17. Rock It Come over: The Folk Music of Jamaica – by Olive Lewin

18. Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings) – by Stuart Hall

19. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition – by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

20. Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity (Latin America in Translation) – by Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra

21. Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions – by Nathaniel Samuel Murrell

22. Cricket without A Cause – by Hilary McD Beckle

23. The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology – by Anténor Firmin

24. Race, Class, Politics and the Struggle for Empowerment in Barbados, 1914-1937 – by David V.C. Browne

25. Women in Caribbean Politics – by Cynthia Barrow-Giles

26. Prehistoric Guiana – by Denis Williams

27. Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture – by Brenda F. Berrian

28. The Groundings With My Brothers – by Walter Rodney

29. Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal – by Olive Senior

30. Making Waves: How the West Indies Shaped the United States – by Debbie Jacob