I acquire books on Africa and the African Diaspora. My list seeks texts that explore African and Afro-diasporic cultural practices and quotidian life in the contemporary period by connecting them to historical, economic, and political causes. Books on racialization in Africa and its Diaspora, Black colonial and postcolonial life, Black/Afro-feminisms and womanisms, Black transnationalism and international connections, Black queer life and theory, Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American politics and identities, Black disability studies, and contemporary Black arts and cultures in the U.S.

Alwin A.D. Jones was raised in Guyana, South America, and came of age in Brooklyn, New York. He’s an alum of Boys and Girls High in Brooklyn, Tufts University and the University of Virginia. He is the author of Black Trinity (St. Bani Press/Alwin A.D. Jones, 2002), a book of poetry. A former professor of Literature and Global Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, he is currently an upper school English teacher at ECFS and the director of the Fieldston Summer Academic Program. His most recent project is his reggae/dub poetry album titled What is?