The IRSOC Exec team has put together this brief list of phenomenal books to help our community explore Black History and International Relations, seeking to highlight narratives that have often been ignored in mainstream academia. This list is by no means exhaustive, but we hope that it will provide a starting point to engaged readers!
| Author | Title | Link |
| Michelle Alexander | The New Jim Crow | Link |
| WEB Du Bois | Black Reconstruction in America | Link |
| David Olusoga | Black and British: A Forgotten History | Link |
| Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson | Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life | Link |
| Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M. Gill | To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism | Link |
| Annette Gordon Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello | Link |
| Robert Vitalis | White World Order, Black Power Politics | Link |
| Angela Davis | Women, Race & Class | Link |
| William Darity and Samuel Myers | Persistent Disparity : Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945 | Link |
| Robyn Maynard | Policing Black Lives : State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present | Link |
| Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin | Black Against Empire: the History and Politics of the Black Panther Party | Link |
| Frantz Fanon | The Wretched of the Earth | Link |
| bell hooks | Ain’t I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism | Link |
| Robert Young | Postcolonialism : An Historical Introduction | Link |
| Lasse Heerten | The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering | Link |
| Jim Freedman | A Conviction in Question : the First Trial at the International Criminal Court | Link |
| Alcinda Honwana | Child Soldiers in Africa | Link |
| Hilary Matfess | Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses | Link |
| Mahmood Mamdani | When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda | Link |
| Elinor Sisulu | Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands 1980-1988 | Link |
| David Kenrick | Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979: A Race Against Time. | Link |