- Listening to Images, Tina M. Campt, 2017
- Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, Katherine McKittrick, ed., 2015
- Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2007
- Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, Katherine McKittrick, 2006
- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul, Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing, 2006
- Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895–1960, Owen White, 1999
- Romanticism and Colonial Disease, Alan Bewell, 1999
- African American Art: The Long Struggle, Crystal A. Britton, 1996
- Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, Robert J. C. Young, 1995
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, Anne McClintock, 1995
- The Famished Road, Ben Okri, 1991
- The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, Thomas Pakenham, 1991
- African Perspectives on Colonialism, A. Adu Boahen, 1987
- Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, Robert Farris Thompson, 1983
- Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977, Michel Foucault, 1980
- The Exotic White Man: An Alien in Asian and African Art, Cottie A. Burland, 1968
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, 1958
- Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin, 1955
- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola, 1954
- Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Aimé Césaire, 1939
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1899
This reading list first appeared in the exhibition catalogue 2019 SECA Art Award: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, Marlon Mullen, edited by Linde B. Lehtinen and Nancy Lim and published in 2019 by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. © 2019 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.