Selected Books By and About African Americans Living Abroad
Alexandrov, V. E. (2013). The black Russian. New York, NY: Grove Press.
Bechet, S. (2002). Treat it gentle: An autobiography. New York, NY: Da Capo Press.
Braggs, R. K. (2016). Jazz diasporas: Race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Bricktop, & Haskins, J. (2000). Bricktop. New York, NY: Welcome Rain Publishers.
Campbell, J. (2003). Exiles in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and their circle on the Left Bank. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Carew, J. G. (2010). Blacks, reds, and Russians: Sojourners in search of the Soviet promise. Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Dunbar, E. (1970). The black expatriates: A study of American Negroes in exile. New York: Pocket Books.
Fabre, M. (1993). From Harlem to Paris: Black American writers in France, 1840-1980. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Gaines, K. K. (2008). American Africans in Ghana: Black expatriates and the civil rights era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Gallicchio, M. S. (2000). The African American encounter with Japan and China: Black internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Gartrell, D. (2015). 21 years of wisdom: One man's extraordinary odyssey in Japan : a memoir. Los Angeles, CA: Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.
Golden, L. (2002). My long journey home. Chicago, IL: Third World Press.
Goldstein, D. A. (2017). Alley-oop to aliyah: African American hoopsters in the holy land. NY: Skyhorse Publishing.
Harrington, O. W. (2010). Why I left America and other essays. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Heath, G. (1992). Deep are the roots: Memoirs of a black expatriate. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
Himes, C. B. (1972). The quality of hurt: The early years. New York, NY: Paragon House.
Imahkus, S. (2009). Returning home ain't easy but it sure is a blessing. Bloomington, IN: Trafford Publishing.
Khanga, Y., & Jacoby, S. (1992). Soul to soul: A black Russian American family, 1865-1992. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Lacy, L. A. (1970). The rise and fall of a proper Negro: An autobiography. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
McGee, A. E. (1941). Black America abroad. Boston, MA: Meador Pub. Co.
Osborne, A. K. (2015). The Black mzungu. LIFT.
Schofield-Childs, J. M. (2011). Take me home to Afrika: An autobiography of a returnee. iUniverse.com.
Smith, H. (1964). Black man in red Russia. Johnson Pub. Co.
Stovall, T. (1996). Paris noir: African Americans in the city of light. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.