RESOURCES
Here are some helpful resources if you're looking for some more information, whether you're interested in recipes, health, or scholarly resources centering on animal oppression, racial oppression, and social justice.Some of these resources are from non-Black people and tackle subjects that relate to food justice, racial justice, and different articulations of "the human." and "the animal."
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Business
Critical/social justice:
Culture/lifestyle
Vegan Health
Books:
New to Veganism Books
Children's books
Julia Feliz Brueck. Libby Finds Vegan Sanctuary.
Kawani AJ Brown. Where Does Dinner Come From?: A Plant Based Children's Book.
Ruby Roth. Vegan is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action.
Cookbooks
Ama T. Opare. Food For The Soul From Ama's Kitchen: Soulful Vegan and Raw Vegan Recipes.
Claiborne, Jenne. Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul
Bryant Terry. Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed.
Bryant Terry. Vegan Soul Kitchen.
Koya Webb. Koya's Kuisine: Foods You Love That Love You Back.
social justice/critical studies book
Amie Breeze Harper, Ph.D. Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society.
Lisa A. Kemmerer. Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice.
Aph Ko and Syl Ko. Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters.
Aph Ko. Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out.
Sunaura Taylor. Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
Carol J. Adams. The Sexual Politics of Meat.
Health/Lifestyle Books
Brandi Y. Rollins. Raw Foods on a Budget: The Ultimate Program and Workbook to Enjoying a Budget-loving, Plant-based Lifestyle.
Latham Thomas. Mama Glow: A Hip Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy.
Kirt Tyson, N.M.D. The Raw Truth: The Recipe For Reversing Diabetes.
Tracye McQuirter. By Any Greens Necessary.
Scholarly Books and Articles
(The scholarly book titles are italicized. Also, the author's last name is placed first).
Bennett Joshua. Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Boisseron Benedicte. Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Che Gossett. Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign. Verso Books. September 2015
Jackson, Zakiyyah. Animal: New Directions in the Theorization of Race and Posthumanism
Jackson, Zakiyyah. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anti-Black World
Johnson, Lindgren. Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1839-1934
Kim, Claire Jean. Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age
Kim, Claire Jean. Murder and Mattering in Harambe's House. Politics and Animals. p. 37-51. March 2017
Lugones, Maria. Toward a Decolonial Feminism
McKittrick, Katherine. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
Mignolo, Walter. Who Speaks for the Human in Human Rights?
Mwangi, Evan Maina. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Roberts, Mark S. The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression
Washington, Harriet. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Weheliye, Alexander G. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Vegan Starter Guides
Tracye McQuirter, MPH, released an African American Vegan Starter Guide. Download your FREE copy at africanamericanveganstarterguide.com.