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Elaine Mitchener's Sweet Tooth reading list

June 2020

Elaine Mitchener's music theatre work Sweet Tooth, a powerful engagement with the brutalities of slavery, its links to the British empire and the sugar industry, and its contemporary echoes, has been made available to stream online. Here Mitchener shares an extensive resource of relevant reading materials

This list first appeared appended to Chris Bohn’s 2017 interview, Breaking the chains: Elaine Mitchener on the British Empire’s legacy of cruelty. Watch Sweet Tooth on Vimeo.

Reading list:

Solar Throat Slashed by Aime Cesaire

Black Ivory: Slavery In The British Empire by James Walvin

Slavery And The Culture Of Taste by Simon Gikandi

The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion by Kei Miller

Testing The Chains: Resistance To Slavery In The British West Indies by Michael Craton

The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis by Katherine McKittrick

Slavery And Revolution blog by Dr Christer Petley, the historical consultant for Sweet Tooth

Cambridge by Caryl Phillips

Interesting Narrative Of The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Paul Edwards

History Of The Voice: Development Of Nation Language In Anglophone Caribbean Poetry by Edward K Brathwaite

Folk Culture Of The Slaves In Jamaica by Edward K Brathwaite

Art And Emancipation In Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario And His Worlds by Tim Barringer et al

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women And Feminism by bell hooks

Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music Of Jamaica: With Special Reference To Kumina And The Work Of Mrs Imogene ‘Queenie’ Kennedy by Olive Lewin

Mastery, Tyranny, And Desire: Thomas Thistlewood And His Slaves In The Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard

More Than Producers And Reproducers: Jamaican Slave Women's Dance And Song In The 1770s–1830s by Henrice Altink

Sugar Changed The World blog by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Slavery & Abolition: A Journal Of Slave And Post-Slave Studies edited by Gad Heumann

The Souls Of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois

Songs Of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison And "Slave Songs Of The United States" by Samuel Charters

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