Reading List
Foundational Books
- Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North. Holmes & Meier, 1999.
- Jackson, George. Blood in My Eye. Black Classic Press. 1996.
- Fanon, Frantz, et al. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 2021.
- Soledad Brothers: George Jackson, 1941-1971, John Cluchette, 1943-, Fleeta Drumgo, 1945-
- Rickford, Russell John. We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1972.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches. Chicago, A. G. McClurg, 1903. New York :Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968.
- Shakur, Assata, author. Assata : an Autobiography. Chicago, Illinois :Lawrence Hill Books, 2001.
- Wood, Peter H. Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America. , 2003.
- Fromont, Cécile. Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, 2015.
- Robinson, Cedric. The Time of the Black Radical Tradition. Polity. 2021.
- Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press. 2005.
- Payne, Les & Payne, Tamara. The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Liveright. 2020.
- Bukhari, Safiya. The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind. The Feminist Press at CUNY. 2010.
- Muntaqim, Jalil. We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings. Arissa Media Group/PM Press. 2010.
- James, Joy. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.
- Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism : The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000.
- hooks, bell. All About Love: New Vision. William Morrow Paperbacks. 2001.
- Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996. Negroes with Guns. New York :Marzani & Munsell, 1962.
- hooks, bell. The Will to Change. Atria Books. 2004.
- hooks, bell. Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, 2). William Morrow Paperbacks. 2002.
- Wright, Richard. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth. Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.) 1945.
- hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody. Routledge. 2014.
- Crenshaw, Kimberle. On Intersectionality. The New Press. 2022.
- Woodson, Carter. The Mis-Education of the Negro. 12th Media Services. 1999.
