Bookworms unite.

[brianold]

anyone else with books they have been meaning to read but havent gotten around to it yet?

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Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Slave Culture
Sterling Stuckey

The Gift of Black Folk
WEB DuBois

Black Power Ideologies
John T. McCartney

The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Malidoma Patrice Some

The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah

Economic Democracy
Martin Carnoy and Derek Chearer

The Healers
Ayi Kwei Armah

[kamille]

I'm trying to get into these!

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III--an ASCAC scholar--said "serious Africans will read":

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois-(you're well on your way, b!)

MDW NTR: Divine Speech, A Historiographical Reflection of African (this is what Steph reviewed in 5.1...)

Deep Thought From The Time of tile Pharaohs to tile Present
by Jacob Carruthers

Pan Africanism and Education by Kenneth King

SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind by Asa G. Hilliard III

The Education of Blacks in the South: 1860-1935 by James Anderson

The Education of the Negro: Ten Critiques by W.E.B. DuBois
by Herbert Aptheker, Editor

The Orions of Black Scholars by Horace Mann Bond

The Social History of Timbuktu by Ellis Saad

[Nathaniel]

Finally into Cruse's Crisis of The Negro Intellectual....

Headed to Tanzania for about a month...taking Rasta and Resistance by Horace Campbell, as well as Cruse...

Race Rebels by Robin Kelley

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

I May Not Get There With You by Michael Eric Dyson

Intellectual Warfare by Jacob Carruthers

Before The Mayflower by Lerone Bennett

Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan Negro Patriot by Hollis Lynch

Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane

also want to pick up some fiction....but damn, it just doesnt seem like there is much time!! Too many heavy books to mentally bench press, er read LOL...

[brianold]

not that i've even gotten through my initial list (or those that ya'll posted that i'm interested in) but i do want to explore some of these as well:

http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/Whitenessbib.html

[brianold]

Still haven't even made a dent in that prior list... but I picked up Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" on the low and am almost done with it. lol. This joint is genius!

Oh and "Fast Food Nation" is dope so far as well.

[brianold]

I think I have ADD when it comes to sticking to my reading list... I recently started:

WEB DuBois Speaks

and

Ready For Revolution: The Autobiography Of Stokley Charmichael

[brianold]

Kodwo Eshun