A Recommended Reading list: Understand and Then Empower

You cannot subjugate a man and recognize his humanity, his history and his personality; so, systematically, you
must take this away from him. You begin by telling lies about this mans role in history. John Henrik Clarke

Title & Author

Before The MayFlower
- Lerone Bennett
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy
Black Boys
- Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome:
America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and
Healing 1st Edition
- Dr. Joy DeGruy
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
Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search
for Power and Economic Justice
- Claud Anderson
Introduction to Black Studies, 4th Edition
- Dr. Maulana Karenga
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Colorblindness 1st Edition
- Michelle Alexander
Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis
- Dr. Maulana Karenga

Latest Printing
& Publisher
2008 - Johnson
Publishing
Company
2005 - African
American
Images
2005 - Uptone
Press

2006 - Three
Rivers Press

1994
PowerNomics
Corporation of
America
2010 - University
of Sankore Press

Synopsis
Traces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic
journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of
the 1960s and 1970s.
Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African American children, this book
explains how to ensure that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and
responsible men.
Resulting from years of historical and psychological research by Joy DeGruy (formerly Leary)
PTSS describes a set of behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to multigenerational trauma experienced by African Americans that include undiagnosed and untreated
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in enslaved Africans and their descendants.
. . . too many black Americans are in crisiscaught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of
school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and falling to the
bottom in twenty-first-century global economic competition. In Enough, Juan Williams issues a
lucid, impassioned clarion call to do the right thing now, before it is too late for many of us.

Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used
black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially
engineered into the lowest level life. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of
race. Dr. Anderson uses the analysis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem.
An invaluable contribution to history and humanity in terms of its afrocentric context in
analyzing and accurately introducing the rich and varied history and contribution of continental
Africans, African Americans and other Black peoples. This book is a must read.
2010 The New The book discusses race-related issues specific to African-American males and mass
Press
incarceration in the United States . . . Alexander's central premise, from which the book derives
its title, is that "mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow."
essential concepts, values and contentions of Maulana Karenga's philosophy of
2015 - University "Provides
of Sankore Press Kawaida and how they relate to current and enduring issues of culture, race, class, gender,
racial and social justice, nationalism, pan-Africanism, socialism, revolution and the struggle for
the good society and world."

Message to the People: The Course of

African Philosophy
Marcus Garvey

1986 The
Majority Press

100 Amazing Facts of the Negro

- J.A. Rodgers

1995
University Press
Of new England
1992 Transaction
Publishers
2010 Seven
Treasures
Publications
1988 Beacon
Press

The Golden Age of the Moors

- Ivan Von Sertima
The Mis-Education of The Negro
- Carter G. Woodson
Here I Stand
- Paul Robeson

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of

Black Inferiority
Tom Burrell

2010 SmileyBooks

The Cultural Unity of Black Africa : The

Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in
Classical Antiquity (Karnak History)
- Cheikh Anta Diop

2000 - Red Sun

Press

Marcus Garvey wanted to pass on the lessons he had learned, as head of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association, to the group best suited to carry the struggle forward. For one
month he instructed this elite student body, twelve hours a day, seven days a week. The
sessions were secret and much of the instruction was not written down. The students did,
however receive written copies of twenty-two lessons, which Garvey called the Course of
African Philosophy.
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel
Augustus Rogers columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. The
feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934 and ran through the 1960s.
This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the
significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula . . . it also
examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix . . . .
The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally
indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes
African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society.
The most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the
United States, his strong support of African independence, and his fascination with the Soviet
Union placed him under the debilitating scrutiny of McCarthyism. Blacklisted, his famed voice
silenced, Here I Stand offered a bold answer to his accusers. It remains today a defiant
challenge to the prevailing fear and racism that continues to characterize American society.
Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask
why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act
like slaves. Brainwashed . . . demands that we question our self-defeating attitudes and
behaviors. Racism is not the issue; how we respond to media distortions and programmed selfhatred is the issue.
Diop's works are respected in many international circles for being part of the scientific and
historical movement of re-examining human history and development and redefining our
history. This has been deemed an important task to challenge theories of human development
created during European colonialism and chattel slavery.

. . . a race that does not read must ever be a laggard race. Sutton Elbert Griggs

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