During day 3 of the Raising Proud Black Children Challenge chat, someone asked me to post my reading list. This is an incomplete list, but a very good one, in my opinion, and one that is an ongoing concern.
LET ME KNOW HOW MANY YOU HAVE READ, WHICH BOOKS YOU’VE READ, WHAT YOU PLAN ON READING AND WHAT YOU’D RECOMMEND FOR ME AND US?
I’VE READ:
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation https://amzn.to/3aeoalI
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism by Amos Wilson https://amzn.to/3rLjtFT
Brainwashed – Tom Burrell https://amzn.to/3acBNlg
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrik Clarke https://amzn.to/3tPNfLE
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr. Joy Degruy https://amzn.to/3aX3tKi
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na’im Akbar – https://amzn.to/2Wfm3Wu
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington – https://amzn.to/2YhZwew
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson Ph.D. – https://amzn.to/2YhQApn
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz Malcolm X – https://amzn.to/2Sipnio
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima – https://amzn.to/3f5sJ24
Stolen Legacy by George J.M. James – https://amzn.to/2W432WU
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey – https://amzn.to/2SiVP4v
Patrice Lumumba: Ahead of His Time by Didier Ndongala Mumbata – https://amzn.to/2WeXtoI
Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – https://amzn.to/3f5HjXh
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran https://amzn.to/2Z9wGw2
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire – by Carol Jenkins – https://amzn.to/3d2KjSq
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun by Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker – https://amzn.to/3f3aU3Q
Succeeding Against the Odds by John H. Johnson – https://amzn.to/3d0GdKE
Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Heroes And Other Troublemakers by Dr. Claud Anderson and Brant Anderson – https://amzn.to/2YjtFtK
Blueprint for Black Power by Amos Wilson – https://amzn.to/3f3QS9h
The Outline of History by H.G. Wells https://amzn.to/3ahVJ6F
ON MY UPCOMING READING LIST
Black Labor, White Wealth by Claud Anderson – https://amzn.to/3d2KAVs
Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams – https://amzn.to/2YgaFMG
The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar – https://amzn.to/2W9YT43
The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop – https://amzn.to/3cXBPfu
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While in school I read
*’Up from Slavery’ by Booker T Washington
*Autobiography of Malcolm X’ by Alex Haley *Attallah Shabazz Malcolm X
\\\\\///// I also read
‘The Testimony of Steve Biko’ by Steve Biko
‘Voices of Liberation’ by Steve Biko
Went on to read these – just because
*’The Mis-Education if the Negro’ by Carter Godwin Woodson, Ph.D
*’They Came Before Columbus’ by Ivan Van Sertima
*Stolen Legacy’ by George J.M. James
And this one because of fascination of him due to a story my Dad told me on how he came to my name —-(Patrice)
*’Patrice Lumumba: Ahead of His Time’ by Didier Ndongala Mumbata
I’ll be adding others as well as what you have here on your list of Read and Upcoming reads.
Give Thanks
Yes, can’t believe you’ve not read MalcomX and more on the actual Movement, here in the US. I managed to complete a minor (3 courses) in AAS – African American Studies; which really opened my mind to the Black experience. As I’m the Brown experience researching the similarities in our mis-education. We were req’d to study/read the early politicians and philosophers dating back to the 1700’s. I actually visited the home of Dredd Scott in D.C. And read the readings of Marcus Garvey, Gloria Watkins, Angela Davis, Fredrick Douglas, Anne Cooper etc.
Where did you get the impression that I haven’t read Malcolm X from? That is in the “I’ve Read” section. In addition, this isn’t a complete list of everything I’ve read in my life. I’ve read hundreds of books. Can’t put them all in a beginners list. It would overwhelm them and they wouldn’t read anything.
Instead, I place a few books that I thought might be a good intro for people to get rolling on this assignment.
Appreciate your comment.
I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, I read Behind The Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, Along this Way by James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman, The Wife of his youth by Charles Chestnut. I read all of Toni Morrison. They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima. I read most of these books when I was in college. I took an AA history course and my undergraduate degree is in International Economics with a focus on ECOWAS! So I am firmly grounded in African languages, art and culture.