Enjoy this list, I’ am not your educator but these people have taken the time to write about their personal experiences/lives/poetry/statics/facts on racism and sexism and intersectionality that is often times ignored. But simultaneously all happening at the same time in the same situation.
————————————————————————————————————— Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington Learning to be white by Thandeka Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum Black skin, white masks by Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann Black Looks : Race and Representations by Bell Hooks The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison The Soul of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Donald B. Gibson (Introduction), Monica M. Elbert (Notes), Monica E. Elbert (Annotations) Ain’t I a woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Vincent Harding (Introduction) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Nobody Knows my name by James Baldwin The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Lee Smith, Winona LaDuke (Foreword) Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema & the Colonization of American Indians by Ward Churchill Collected Articles of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglas The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes Brainwashed by Tom Burrell Conversations with Audre Lorde (Literary Conversations) by Joan Wylie Hall (Editor) The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V Harris-Perry The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara (Editor), Eleanor W Traylor (Introduction) The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper (Editor), Anthony Walton (Editor) But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies by Gloria T. Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor)
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. Singleton (Editor), Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton (Editor) The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Things fall of Apart by Chinua Achebe Arrow of god by Chinua Achebe Native son by Richard Wright Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by Leonard Harris The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906 - 1960 by W.E.B. Dubois Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Author), David Levering Lewis The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations) by Ivan Van Sertima Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora by Marimba Ani (Author), Richards Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present by Jacob H. Carruthers The Eloquence of the Scribes by Ayi Kwei Armah Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
Read a few and have been meaning to read a few for some years now!!! Let’s have a book club and knock this list out!! Whose with me????
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