P.S. this isn't an exhaustive list, but works that have deeply informed the work. Many of these works defy genre; categories provided as a general guide. Currently this list includes works that are not behind paywalls (read: most journal articles), so many are books or edited volumes - N. Jones

black feminism

• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

• Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society edited by Dr. Amie Breeze Harper

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

• Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander

black geographies

• Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle by Katherine McKittrick

• Black Geographies and the Politics of Place edited by Clyde Woods and Katherine McKittrick

• Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick

• Black Geographies of Quarantine: with Theresa Hice Fromille, Camilla Hawthorne, and Brandi T. Summers

black gardens, farming, and agricultural history

• Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith Carney

• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

• African American Gardens of the Rural South by Richard Westmacott

black plant knowledge and botany

• A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Ritual for the Body and Spirit by Stephanie Rose Bird

• In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff

• African Ethnobotany in the Americas edited by Robert Voeks and John Rashford

black culinary knowledge & praxis

• The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton Martin

• Cookbooks by Bryant Terry

• Afroculinaria.com and other works by Michael Twitty

• Rice by Michael Twitty

black environmental history & black ecologies

• To Love the Wind and the Rain: African-Americans and Environmental History edited by Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll

black performance and cultural criticism

• Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
  

critical and radical food studies

• Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman

• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch

• Liberatory Sustainability: Food Sovereignty, Survival, and Sustainability by Toi Scott

• Doing Nutrition Differently: Critical Approaches to Diet and Dietary Intervention edited by Allison Hayes-Conroy

healing and recovery

• Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery by bell hooks

more essays to live by

• Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin

• I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes

life affirming-works by Native/Indigenous Women and Women of Color

• This Bridge Called Home: Radical Visions for Transformation edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating

• Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women by Wilma Mankiller

• Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko

xicana/latina feminism and spiritual activism

• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

• Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives edited by Elisa Facio and Irene Lara

• Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices edited by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales

spiritual & mystical living

• Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy

• Company of Prophets: African American Psychics, Healers, and Visionaries by Joyce Elaine Noll

• LifeVisioning by Michael Bernard Beckwith

• The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi (translated by C. Barks and J. Moyne)

critical participatory action research

• Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation, and Place edited by S. Kindon, R. Pain, and M. Kesby

• Participatory Action Research by Caitlin Cahill (People, Place, and Space Reader)

transformative, embodied, and anti-racist pedagogy

• Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and Arts in Antiracist Teaching by Bell et al.

• Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues by AnaLouise Keating

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as a Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

women of color & health (testimonio/testimonies)

• Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness edited by Barbara Bair and Susan E. Cayleff