Afro-Swedish archives, Nordic scholarship and Denmark adoption research. Coverage will grow across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland; the initial records do not claim equal coverage of every country.
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Rigsarkivet (Danish National Archives)
An archival research guide to adoption files, useful alongside BGHRA’s existing work on Black German adoptees in Denmark. These are personal-record access instructions, not an openly downloadable collection of adoptee case files.
Michael McEachrane (editor); foreword by Paul Gilroy
An edited collection on African diasporic experiences, racial inequality and the legacies of empire in Nordic societies. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Ryan Thomas Skinner; foreword by Jason Timbuktu Diakité
A study of Afro-Swedish history, cultural life and community knowledge drawing on oral history, archival research and ethnography. Includes an Afro-Swedish foreword, credited separately from the principal author.
Afrosvenskarnas Riksorganisation
The organization’s own history documents its formation in 1990 and its work for Afro-Swedish rights and equality.
Black Archives Sweden
A contemporary community archive centered on Afro-Swedish and Black experiences, cultural production, activism and queerfeminist diasporic perspectives.
Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye (editors)
Essays connecting Sweden’s colonial histories to present questions of racial identity, Indigenous resistance and international justice. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye (editors)
A Swedish-language anthology examining how colonial histories and ideas about race continue to shape Sweden, national identity, migration and cultural life. The title translates as Sweden and the Others: Postcolonial Perspectives.