What else is on my reading list?
The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, Jerald E. Podair (current read)
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson
How to Teach Black Children by Alton D. Rison --- This was one hard book to find (at least affordably!). Even the resellers on Amazon were at a loss. I kept at it and finally (finally) found it!
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey --This is currently en rout.
My Bondage and My Freedom and Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Up From Slavery: an Autobiography by Booker T. Washington (a reread)
Stolen Legacy by George James (a reread)
From the Browder Files by Anthony Browder (a reread)
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na'im Akbar---a definite reread.
The Goddess Black Woman by Akil--- (a reread) I was trying to get my niece and my stepdaughter to read this but they didn't show any interest :-(.
These are books I have to get a hold of:
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Destruction of Black Unity (Slave Chronicles) The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Willie Lynch. --I remember when I was a member of a particular website I'll leave unnamed (because I am still a member) when discussions on this book would come up. Naturally of course I read it at that time (2004/2005). I was in the minority that appreciated the work. The other "intellectual giants" on the site, the majority, belittled it, claiming it wasn't written during the time it claimed because some of the words used were not in popular usage during that period. Like any of that actually mattered. A true discussion of the content was lost in the battle for "who was more intelligent." I love black uplift sites. I just wish their focus was less on Eurocentric ideologies in regards to education, self....just plain living.
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima --This book is somewhere in my house.
The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life by Kevin Powell--I heard some good things about it. Worth a read if it concentrates on the African part of the black male and not the "European." I hesitate to buy it because I will be pissed off as the world if I see anything in it on how to live the so called "American Dream."
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
“Black people are not dark-skinned white people." I like this book already.
The Wise Mind of Emperor Haile Selassie I by Prince Ermias
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy Leary
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington
The Isis Papers by Dr. Francis Welsing
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Byrd, Lori Tharps --I bought and read this book at the beginning of my natural hair journey in 2004. This book is floating around the house somewhere.
Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by E. David Cronon
Visions for Black Men by Na'im Akbar
Know Thyself by Dr. Na'im Akbar and Asa G. Hilliard III
From Miseducation to Education by Na'im Akbar
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture by Damian Duffy and others
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by
A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the PresentAfrican Art
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
Black Art: A Cultural History
Assata: An Autobiography
Various writings of Dr. Malachi Z. York
Well I don't have a lot of these books yet but I will have them. I will make it my goal to learn and then to fill the minds of every young black child I get a hold of with their true history and let them know the real truth of our innate genius!
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