This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

These are the books you should read. This is the canon.\nUpending our traditionally white-dominated 'to be read' piles, Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay push to the fore the voices and cultural perspectives that demand a place on everyone's shelves.\nFrom literary giants such as Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Chinua Achebe to recent Man Booker Prize winners Paul Beatty and Bernardine Evaristo, the novels recommended here are in turn haunting and lyrical; innovative and inspiring; edgy and poignant. They are books that reflect the wide and diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. They are books that represent voices that have for too long been silenced or side-lined.

Anim-Addo, Joan

Osborne, Deirdre

Sesay, Kadija

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Quercus

Review\n“First and foremost this book is a celebration of our history, politics and culture as Black women. I personally took pleasure in digesting the history chapter first. The book affirms the beauty of Black women and, in particular, our natural kinky hair. It then flowed seamlessly into the collection of hair journeys told by thirty Black women aged 18 to 80. The Aleea Rae artwork on the front cover and sprinkled throughout the book is absolutely stunning. Hairvolution is not just a book, it’s a movement!” -- Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA ― Review\n“Over the past decade, the reclamation of Black hair by Black women through the mobilisation of online communities has paved the way for actionable change through campaigns like that of The Halo Code and the ongoing ratification of the Crown Act in the US. Hairvolution is a triumphant ode to this Afro-centric hair revolution. The book offers historic deep dives alongside interviews with the key cultural names, such as MP Dawn Butler and Doreene Blackstock (of Sex Education fame), to depict an intimate and critical look at what it means to recentre Black hair, even within white spaces.” -- – Ata-Owaji Victor ― Stylist magazine\nDo you love your natural hair? Some of the world’s most inspiring black women tell us about their attitudes to, and struggles with, their crowning glory. Kinky, wavy, straight or curly, this book will help you celebrate your natural beauty, however you choose to style your hair. With an overview of the politics and history of black hair, the book explores how black hairstyles have played a part in the fight for social justice and the promotion of black culture while inspiring us to challenge outdated notions of beauty, gender and sexuality for young women and girls everywhere. The power is in our hair. And we’ve come to tell the world what ours can do! 
Interviewees include: Annika Allen; Eva Anek; Anita Asante; Caroline Blackburn; Doreene Blackstock; Dawn Butler; Anastasia Chikezie; Stella Dadzie; Sokari Douglas Camp; Stephanie Douglas Oly; Deitra Farr; Rachel Fleming-Campbell; Ruthie Foster; Jamelia; Judith Jacob; Bakita Kasadha; Angie Le Mar; Francine Mukwaya; Jessica Okoro; Anita Okunde; Stella Oni; Chi Onwurah; Olusola Oyeleye; Shade Pratt; Rianna Raymond-Williams; Djamila Ribeiro; Vivienne Rochester; Kadija George Sesay; Cleo Sylvestre; Carryl Thomas; Jael Umerah-Makelemi; Includes photos, poems and illustrations throughout

Hairvolution: Her Hair, Her Story, Our History

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Calliste, Saskia

Raghdo, Zainab

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Supernova Books

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