Bookshelf

In each issue of Geez, we offer a list of books for further reading. Whether you’re sitting by the fireplace or on a blanket at the park, here are some books to deepen insight into the themes found in Geez.

Recent Issues

  • Issue 72
  • Issue 71
  • Issue 70
  • Issue 69

Further Reading

  • Everything Naomi Loved by Katie Yamasaki & Ian Lendler
  • Juneteenth: A Children's Story by Opal Lee
  • Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
  • WIlliam Still and His Freedom Stories by Don Tate
  • The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
  • Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and Vashti Harrison
  • Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard
  • A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church by Wilda C. Gafney
  • On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
  • I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
  • The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Jubilee by Margaret Walker
  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  • White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity by James Perkinson
  • Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community by Katie Geneva Cannon
  • We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
  • We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill
  • Notes of a Native Daughter by Keri Day
  • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging by Willie James Jennings
  • White Evangelical Racism by Athea Butler
  • The Religion of White Rage edited by Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray, Lori Latrice Martin
  • Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster and Hannah Giorgis
  • Just Us: An American Conversation Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
  • Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
  • Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese
  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
  • Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon
  • The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les and Tamara Payne
  • The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
  • Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
  • The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
  • How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

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