Below is a list of suggested reading that is by no means exhaustive. When you purchase from the links below, you are supporting the nation's oldest feminist bookstore, Charis Books and More, with whom Anansi's Daughters is proud to be in partnership.
New Orleans History
A story of East New Orleans, a forgotten part of the city, missing from maps handed out to tourists, and the story of Broom's family.
-This tells the story of how the majority of Black New Orleanians got relegated to the low-lying land of New Orleans East.
***The Strange History of the American Quadroon:***
Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
-This is the true history of the Free Women of Color in the US, and negates the fiction of the Quadroon Balls
Fire In The Hole: The Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors
-A book about the Mardi Gras Indians
Children’s and Young Adult Books with African Diasporic Folklore
Vodou & African Traditional Religions (ATRs)
*NOTE: This book is by a Caucasian priestess that has been reviewed by Black Haitian Mambos to ensure the information is accurate, including Mambo Marie Carmel. The author thanks Sally Ann Glassman in the back of the book; I want to be clear that as a Vodou Priestess and a woman of Color, I do not endorse Glassman and her practice.
Novels with African Traditional Religious Themes
