Inspiring Speakers Series Reading List - Illingworth Kerr Gallery

Inspiring Speakers Series: Reading List

The Illingworth Kerr Gallery is collaborating with the Luke Lindoe Library (Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) Library) to distribute a reading list curated by visual artist, community organizer and social activist Nura Ali. In anticipation of our yet to be announced event, every Friday leading up, we will release four (4) titles here in the Friday Flyer, the Bulletin, and on our Instagram. All titles are available for loan from the AUArts Luke Lindoe Library!

First Edition

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, eBook, 2009 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library.
bell hooks, Art On My Mind: Visual Politics, book, 1995
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel, book, 1937 / Also available at Calgary Public Library.
Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, book, 2016

Second Edition:

James Baldwin, I am not your Negro, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library.
Karina Vernon, The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, book, 2020 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the oppressed, book, 1997.
Saidiya Hartman, Lose your mother, book, 2007 / Also available at Calgary Public Library

Third Edition:

Katherine Mckittrick, Silvia Wynter, On being human as praxis, book, 2015
Dionne Brand, No language is neutral, book, 1998
Ralph Ellison, Invisible man, book, 1995 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
bell hooks, All about love: new visions, book, 1952/ Also available at Calgary Public Library

Fourth Edition:

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming human: matter and meaning in an anti-black world, book, 2020
Cheryl Foggo, Pourin’ down rain, book, 2020 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Librarylist
Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, Monstrous intimacies, book, 2010

Fifth Edition:

Bertrand Bickersteth, The response of weeds, book, 2020, Also available at Calgary Public Library
Ibram X Kendi, How to be an anti racist, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of relation, book, 1997 edition
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the mind, book, 1986

Sixth Edition:

bell hooks, Bone black: memories of girlhood, book, 1996
Richard Wright, The Outsider, book, 2003 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Dionne Brand, The blue clerk, book, 2019 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Fred Moten, In the break: the aesthetics of the black radical tradition, book, 2003 / Also available at Calgary Public Library

Seventh Edition:

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward lives, beautiful experiments, book , 2020 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Frantz Fanon, Black skin, white masks, book, ebook, 2008
James Baldwin, The fire next time, book, 1993 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library

Eighth Edition:

Suzette Mayr, Dr. Edith Vane and the hares of Crawley Hall, book, 2017 / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Katie Kellough, Magnetic equator, book, 2019 edition / Also available at Calgary Public Library
Claude Brown, Manchild in the promised land, book, 2012 edition
Fred Moten, The undercommons: fugitive planning and black study, book, 2013