My Book List: As requested
NOTE: This isn’t my entire book list. I can’t even find my entire book list, which is seriously annoying; so all I have right now is a looong list of history books. (Not counting my Sci-Fi stuff.) I’ll update this list when I can. I haven’t even read all of these books yet. So if any of you have read any of these books, then let me know how they are.
So, in no particular order:
The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses - Sharon Ewell Foster
Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery by Charles Johnson
Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fannon
God is Red: A Native View of Religion - Vine Deloria, Jr.
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier -Scott Zesch
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America - James Wilson
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt - Daniel Rasmussen
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why - Jabari Asim
My Bondage and My Freedom - Fredrick Douglas
The Future of the Race - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Assassination of the Black Male Image - Earl Ofari Hutchinson, PhD.
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage - William Loren Katz
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation of Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A. Washington
Hope on a Tightrope - Cornel West
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Isses of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. - Chancellor Williams
Race Matters - Cornel West
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure that Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It. - Juan Williams
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity - Beverly Daniel Tatum
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America - Ivan Van Sertima
The Black History of the White House (City Lights Open Media) - Clarence Lusane
100 Years of Lynchings - Ralph Ginzburg
The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization - Diana West
Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality became the New Conformity - Hal Niedzviecki
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
Hua Song: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora - Su-chen Christine Lim
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature - Victor H. Mair
Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History and Identity in the African American Experience by Dr. Jose V. Pimienta-Bey
Treatise on Blacks by Uthman Amr Ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South by by Alex Lichtenstein
The American Experiment: A History of the United States by Steven M. Gillon
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Studies in Comparative World History by John Thornton
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades by Patrick Manning
Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams
Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
Blessed Are The Peacemakers by Daniel L Buttry
Ask A Mexican - Gustavo Arellano
YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American - Phoebe (Forward by) Nam Vickie and Eng
The Massacre and El Mozote - Mark Danner
NTC’s Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words: The Complete Guide to key Words that Express How the Mexicans Think, Communicate and Behave - Boye Lafayette De Mente
Muy Macho - Ray Gonzalez
His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in The U.S. - Geraldo Rivera
The End of Food - Paul Roberts
Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of letters, Speeches, Interviews and Autobiographies - John W. Blassingame
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? - Ellis Cose
Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors - Bill Cosby
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence - Fox Butterfield
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America - Charisse Jones
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture - Bakari Kitwana
No Disrespect - Sister Souljah
1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History - Jeffrey C. Stewart
Narrative of Sojourner Truth -Sojourner Truth
Nigger: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader - David L. Lewis
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History - James Mellon
The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans - Kathy Russell
World’s Great Men of Color, Volume 1 - J.A. Rogers
The Killing of Crazy Horse - Thomas Powers
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World - Jack Weatherford
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage - William Loren Katz
Black Indian Slave Narratives - Minges
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality - Elizabeth D. Leonard
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader - Michael Eric Dyson
In Search of the Old Ones - David Roberts
Growing Up Native American - Bill Adler
Native American History: A Chronology of a Culture’s Vast Achievements and Their Links to World Events - Judith Nies
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy - Kent Nerburn
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux - John Gneisenau
Fools Crow - Fools Crow
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations - Jerry Mander
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: The Illustrated Edition: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Alexander Brown
Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America: 1st Edition - James F. Brooks
Black in Latin America - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subjects - Kirsten Buick
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies - Matthew Parker
Living For Change by Grace Lee Boggs
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915 by Sidney Harring
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South by Alex Lichtenstein
Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen
The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti
Democracy For the Few by Michael Parenti
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger
“The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile” by Muhammad Ali
Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellerson
Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
“The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez” and “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex” by Angela Y. Davis
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
‘Action Will Be Taken’: Left Anti-intellectualism and Its Discontents by Liza Featherstone
Prison Labor, Slavery & Capitalism in Historical Perspective by Stephen Hartnett
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood
Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany by Ilka Huegel-Marshall
The Black Woman Cross Culturally edited by Filomena Chioma Steady
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverly Brian, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe (absolute favorite)
Negras in Brazil: Re-Envisions Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity by Kia Lilly Caldwell
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out edited by Mary Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz
From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters edited by Rahila Gupta
Women’s Organization and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority by Shireen Hasim
Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cherryl Walker
Motherland: West Indian Women to Britain in the 1950s by Elyse Dodgson
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