Anansi Studios


Project founded by Devon Kayne; magnifying black thought & rhetoric through providing free archives, resources, & exhibitions specifically to descendants of Africans & Indigenous peoples.

Below are full pdf essentials.


hidden in the open: a photographic essay of black american male couples: early 19th century

curated by trent kelley

the miseducation of the negro author: carter g woodson

the miseducation of the negro

author: carter g woodson

assata: an autobiography author: assata shakur

assata: an autobiography

author: assata shakur

soledad brother: the prison letters of george jacksonauthor: george jackson

soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson

author: george jackson

women, race, & classauthor: angela davis

women, race, & class

author: angela davis

the autobiography of malcom xauthor: malcom x & alex haley

the autobiography of malcom x

author: malcom x & alex haley

belovedauthor: toni morrison

beloved

author: toni morrison

womens liberation excerpt from black panther party newspaperauthor: safiyah bukhari-alston

womens liberation excerpt from black panther party newspaper

author: safiyah bukhari-alston

the souls of black folkauthor: w.e.b dubois

the souls of black folk

author: w.e.b dubois

the african american experience: a history of black americans from 1619 - 1890’sauthor: quintard taylor

the african american experience: a history of black americans from 1619 - 1890’s

author: quintard taylor

fred hampton: 20th commemorationauthor: december 4th committee

fred hampton: 20th commemoration

author: december 4th committee

photo vault: black panther party circa 1960’sshot by: ruth marion baruch & pirkle jones

photo vault: black panther party circa 1960’s

shot by: ruth marion baruch & pirkle jones

intellectual biography of amy jacques garveyauthor: zelaika clarke

intellectual biography of amy jacques garvey

author: zelaika clarke

philosophy & opinions of marcus garveyauthor: marcus garvey & amy jacques garvey

philosophy & opinions of marcus garvey

author: marcus garvey & amy jacques garvey

amy ashwood garvey: the first mrs. garvey: pan-african & feminism in the early 20th century british colonial caribbeanauthor: rhoda reddock

amy ashwood garvey: the first mrs. garvey: pan-african & feminism in the early 20th century british colonial caribbean

author: rhoda reddock

narrative of sojourner truth: a northern slave emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of new york in 1828author: sojourner truth

narrative of sojourner truth: a northern slave emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of new york in 1828

author: sojourner truth

timeline of events leading up to the assassinations of fred hampton & mark clarkauthor: mike gray

timeline of events leading up to the assassinations of fred hampton & mark clark

author: mike gray

archived scans from the black panther party newspaperauthor: black panther party

archived scans from the black panther party newspaper

author: black panther party

full fbi vault: cointelpro records: “black extremists”author: pigs

full fbi vault: cointelpro records: “black extremists”

author: pigs

the warmth of other other suns

author: isabel wilkerson

full review of records & timeline of events: cointelpro, fbi counterintelligence, covert cperations, black bag jobs & the church committeeauthor: ward churchill & jim vander wall

full review of records & timeline of events: cointelpro, fbi counterintelligence, covert cperations, black bag jobs & the church committee

author: ward churchill & jim vander wall

black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity

author: c. riley snorton

afeni shakur: evolution of a revolutionary

author: jasmine guy

the will to change: men, masculinity, & love

author: bell hooks

wayward lives, beautiful experiments: intimate histories of social upheaval

author: saidiya hartman

a taste of power

author: elaine brown

thursday’s child

author: eartha kitt

not straight, not white

author: kevin j mumford

medical apartheid

author: harriet a washington

black queer studies

author: e patrick johnson

ready for revolution

author: stokely carmichael

butch queen in pumps

author marlon bailey

revolutionary suicide

author: huey p newton

concentrate

author: courtney faye taylor

neighbors and other stories

author: diane oliver

all about love

author: bell hooks

or, on being the other woman

author: simone white

spoken word: a cultural history

author: joshua bennett

just as i am

author: cicely tyson

braiding sweetgrass

author: robin wall kimmerer

in pursuit of flavor

author: edna lewis

archive of vintage ebony magazines digitized scans full issues from the 1950’s to 2000’s

author: ebony magazine