Xavier's Top Recommended Reads for Black Food Organizers and Advocates:
- Black Rice by Judith A. Carney
 
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
 
- In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
 
- Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malinda Patrice Some
 
- Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and the Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malinda Patrice Some
 
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
 
- Land Justice: Re-imaging Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States
 
- Land & Power: Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans, by Various Authors & Editors
 
- Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
 
- Freedom Farmers: Agriculture Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Dr. Monica M. White
 
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
 
- As in the Heart, So in the Earth : Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil by Pierre Rabhi