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20 BLACK LATINX WRITERS TO READ NOW



The Latina Book Club supports our Black Brothers and Sisters  and our Afro Latinx / Black Latinx Communities during these hard times.  

Black Lives Matter.  
We See You. We Hear You. We Support You.

Aside from donating money to the different organizations supporting the movement and the protesters, we want to support Afro-Latinx / Black Latinx authors by purchasing and reading their books.  Below is a short list in no particular order.  We welcome additions to this list.   

Happy Reading.  Take care and Stay Safe.



 20 AFRO LATINX  /  BLACK LATINX WRITERS 


NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: FIGHTING RACISM AND STATE VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER 
by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis (Haymarket Books)

AN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINX HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
By Paul Ortiz (Beacon Press)

13 WAYS TO LOOK AT A BLACK BOY
By Tony Medina & 13 Artists  (Penny Candy Books)

THE LATINX POETRY PROJECT
Produced by Davina Ferreira  (Alegria Magazine)

VOICES FROM THE ANCESTORS: XICANX AND LATINX SPIRITUAL EXPRESSIONS AND HEALING PRACTICES
Editors Martha R. Gonzales and Lara Medina  (University of Oklahoma Press)

RESIST: 35 PROFILES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ROSE UP AGAINST TYRANNY AND INJUSTICE
By Veronica Chambers (HarperCollins)

DAUGHTERS OF THE STONE
By Dhalma Llanos-Figueroa (self-published)

THE POET X
By Elizabeth Acevedo (Quill Tree Books)

DOMINICANA
by Angie Cruz (Flatiron Books)

RAISE YOUR BROWN BLACK FIST 2: MORE POLITICAL SHOUTS FROM AN ANGRY AFRO LATINO
By Henry Sabio (Outskirts Press)

NIGHT-BLOOMING JASMIN(N)E: PERSONAL ESSAYS AND POETRY
By Jasminne Mendez (Arte Publico Press)

AMERICAN SWEETHEARTS
By Adriana Herrera (Carina Press)

THE WORST BEST MAN
By Mia Sosa (Avon)

COLOR ME IN
By Natasha Diaz (Delacorte Press)

WHAT LANE?
By Torrey Maldonado (Nancy Paulsen Books)

FURQUAN’S FIRST FLAT TOP / EL PRIMER RECORDE DE MESITA DE FARQUAN
By Robert Liu-Trujillo  (Come Bien Books)

HALSEY STREET
By Naima Coster  (Little A Books)

GHOST SQUAD
By Claribel A. Ortega  (Scholastic Press)

SHADOWSHAPER LEGACY
By Daniel Josè Older (Scholastic Press)

LOVE WAR STORIES
By Ivelisse Rodriguez  (The Feminist Press at CUNY)



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