African History

1. The African Origins of Civilization - Cheik Anta Diop (1974)

2. Black Man of the Nile - Yosef ben-Jochannan
3. Africa: Mother of Western Civilizations - Yosef ben-Jochannan (1988)
4. Black Athena, Vols. I and II – Martin Bernal (1987, 1991)
5. Introduction to African Civilizations - John G. Jackson
6. The Destruction of Black Civilization – Chancellor Williams (1976)
7. The Cultural Unity of Black Africa - Cheik Anta Diop
8. Stolen Legacy - George G. M. James
9. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
1. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World - John Thornton
10. Africa Counts - Claudia Zaslavsky
11. The C.L. R. James Reader – Anna Grimshaw (1992)
12. World's Great Men of Color, Vols. I and II - J. A. Rogers
13. The Rise and Fall of the White Republic – Alexander Saxton (1990)
14. Sex and Race, Vols. I-III - J. A. Rogers
15. Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization - Anthony T. Browder
16. African Presence in Early Europe and Asia - Ivan Van Sertima (1987, 1988
)
17. Nile Valley Civilizations - Ivan Van Sertima
18. Light from Ancient Africa – Na'im Akbar
19. From Superman To Man – J. A. Rogers (1917)
20. African Origin of Biological Psychiatry - Richard King
African American History
1. From Slavery to Freedom - John Hope Franklin
2. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black Americans - Lerone Bennett, Jr.
3. Notes For An African World Revolution - John Henrik Clarke
4. African American History: A Journey to Liberation - Molefi K. Asante
5. Black Reconstruction - W.E.B. DuBois
6. David Walker's Appeal - David Walker
7. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
8. They Came Before Columbus - Ivan Van Sertima
9. There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America – Vincent Har
ding (1983)
10. Blacks in Science - Ivan Van Sertima
11. Black Inventors of America - McKinley Burt, Jr.
12. Great Negroes: Past and Present - Russell Adams
13. Introduction to Black Studies - Maulana Karenga
14. What They Never Told You in History Class – Kush
15. American Slavery - Peter Kolchin
16. American Slavery, American Freedom - Edmund Morgan
17. Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
18. Africa's Gift to America - J. A. Rogers
19. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey - Amy Jacques Garvey
20. Marcus Garvey, Hero - Tony Martin
21. Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa - John Henrik Clarke
22. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
23. A Taste of Power - Elaine Brown
24. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
25. Harriet Tubman - Ann Petry
26. The Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life fro
m the Last Decade of Its First Century - William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
27. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley
28. Malcolm X Speaks - George Brietman
29. Malcolm X, The Man and His Times - John Henrik Clarke
30. King, A Biography - David Lewis
31. Days Of Grace – Arthur Ashe
32. Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? – Reginald F. Lewis and Blair Walk
er
33. I Had a Hammer – Hank Aaron
34. Slave Culture - Sterling Stuckey
35. The Strange Career of Jim Crow - C. Vann Woodward
36. Sugar and Slaves - Robert Dunn
37. Tobacco and Slaves - Allen Kulikoff
Race and Culture
1. The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois (1903)
2. Two Thousand Seasons – Ayi Kwei Armah (1979)
3. The Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Gould (1981)
4. Afrocentricity – Molefi Asante (1988)
5. Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988 - John Hope Franklin (1989
)
6. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
7. Peculiar Institution - Kenneth Stampp
8. The Black Holocaust for Beginners - Sam Anderson
9. Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans – Molefi Asante & Mark
Mattson (1991)
10. Malcolm X as Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric Essays – Molefi Asante (1
993)
11. Crisis of Color and Democracy in America - Manning Marable
12. Race, Reform, and Rebellion - Manning Marable
13. And We Are Not Saved – Derrick Bell
14. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism – Derrick Bell (
1992)
15. The Racial Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future – Sandra Hardin
g (1993)
16. Africanisms in American Culture - Joseph E. Holloway (1990)
17. Cultural Genocide in the Black and African - Yosef ben-Jochannan (2004)
18. The Isis Papers - Frances Cress- Welsing (1991)
19. Women, Race, and Class - Angela Y. Davis
20. Black Power - Stokely Carmichael
21. Race Matters - Cornel West
22. Racial Matters - Kenneth O'Reilly
23. Sex and Race - Helga M. Rogers
24. Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver
25. Race, Writing, and Difference - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
26. Loose Canons - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
27. The Ruling Race - James Oakey
28. Seize the Time - Bobby Seale
Education
1. The Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
2. Afrocentricity - Molefi Kete Asante
3. Black Students Guide to Positive Education - Zak Kondo
4. African Centered Rites of Passage and Education – Lathardus Goggins II
5. Issues in African American Education - Walter Gill
6. For the Children - Madeline Cartwright
7. Africa Counts - Claudia Zaslavsky
8. The Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks - Auset Bakhufu
9. SBA:€The Reawakening of the African Mind - Asa G. Hilliard III
10. Maroons Within Us - Asa G. Hilliard III
11. Young, Gifted and Black - Asa G. Hilliard III, Theresa Perry, Claude Ste
ele
12. Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Cirriculu
m - Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, Larry Obadele Williams
13. The Failure of Public Education in the Black Community – Anyim Palmer
14. The Crisis and Challenge of Black Mis-Education in America - Gyasi A. Fo
luke
15. African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice - Diane S. Pollard
16. The Education of Black People - W.E.B. DuBois and Herbert Aptheker
17. Going to School:€ the African American Experience - Kofi Lomotey
18. Nationbuilding:€ Theory and practice in Afrikan-centered education - Kwame
Agyei Akoto
19. Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education - Mwalimu J. Shujaa
20. Sailing Against the Wind:€ African Americans and Women in U.S. Education -
Kofi Lometey
21. Educating Our Black Children:€New Directions and Radical Approaches - Rich
ard Majors
22. Unbank the Fire:€ Visions for the Education of African American Children -
Janice E. Hale
23. The White Architects of Black Education:€ Ideology and Power in America, 1
865-1954 - €€ William H. Watkins
24. Improving Schools for African American Students:€ A Reader for Educational
Leaders - Sheryl Denbo
25. Yurugu:€ An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Beh
avior - Marimba Ani (1994)
26. African-Centered Pedagogy:€ Developing Schools of Achievement for African
American Children - Peter C. Murrell, Jr.
27. Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students – Donna Y. Ford
28. Center Shift:€ An African-Centered Approach for the Multi-Cultural Curricu
lum - Joan D. Ratteray
29. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly D
aniel Tatum
30. Learning to Survive:€ Black Youth Look for Education and Hope - Atron A. G
entry
31. A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children (Outside of the Cla
ssroom) - Baruti K. Kafele
32. Introduction to Black Studies – Maulana Karenga (1982)
33. Dictionary of African Historical Biography - Mark R. Lipschutz and R. Ke
nt Rasmussen (1986)
Teaching Children
1. A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children - Baruti K. Kafele
2. A Talk With Jawanza - Jawanza Kunjufu
3. Black Students/Middle Class Teachers - Jawanza Kunjufu
4. Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education - Jawanza Kunjufu
5. Black Children - Janice Hale
6. Learning While Black - Janice Hale
7. Marva Collins Way - Marva Collins
8. Ordinary Children/Extraordinary Teachers - Marva Collins
9. I Choose To Stay - Salome Thomas-El
10. Black Teachers on Teaching - Michele Foster
11. From Rage to Hope:€ Strategies for Reclaiming Black and Hispanic Students
- Crystal Kuykendall
12. African-Centered Interdisciplinary Multi Level Hands-On Science - Bernid
a Thompson
13. Positive Afrikan Images for Children (Social Studies Curriculum) - Red S
ea Press
14. African American Children:€A Self-Empowering Approach to Modifying Behavio
r Problems and Preventing Academic Failure - Carolyn M. Tucker
15. Heritage - Joyce Jarrett
16. How to Teach Math to Black Students - Shahid Muhammad
Motivating & Inspiring Children
1. Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children - Amos N. Wilson
2. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children - Jawan
za Kunjufu
3. To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group - Jawanza Kunjufu
4. Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success - Jawanza Kunjufu
5. Harvesting New Generations:€ The Positive Development of Black Youth - Use
ni E. Perkins
Black Males
1. Black Man: Single, Obsolete Dangerous? – Haki Madhubuti (1980)
2. Makes Me Wanna Holler - Nathan McCall
3. Message to the Blackman - Elijah Muhammad
4. Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vols. I-IV - Jawanza Ku
njufu
5. Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: The Hare Plan - Nathan and Julia Hare
6. Educating African American Males: Detroit's Malcolm X Academy Solution -
Clifford Watson and Geneva Smitherman
7. Coming of Age - Paul Hill
8. African American Males in School and Society - Vernon C. Polite
9. Practical Application of Social Learning Theories in Educating Young Afr
ican American Males - George R. Taylor
10. Curriculum Strategies:€ Social Skills Intervention for Young African Males
- George R. Taylor
11. Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in
America's Classrooms - Michael Porter
Economics
1. Success Runs In Our Race: The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in
the African-American Community - George Fraser
2. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America - Manning Marable
3. Black Economics - Jawanza Kunjufu
4. Powernomics - Claud Anderson
5. The Judas Economy – William Wolman & Anne Colamosca
6. The End of Work – Jeremy Rifkin
7. Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
8. The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley & William Danko
9. Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow – Marsha Sinetar
10. The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
11. First Things First – Stephen Covey
12. What Makes The Great Great – Dennis Kimbro
13. Think & Grow Rich: A Black Choice – Napoleon Hill & Dennis Kimbro
14. Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
15. The Warren Buffet Way – Robert Hagstrom
16. The Unemotional Investor – Robert Sheard
17. Rich Dad's Guide To Investing – Robert Kiyosaki
Religion & Spirituality
1. African Religions and Philosophy – John S. Mbiti
2. African Origins of Major World Religions - Yosef ben-Jochannan (1970)
3. Man, God and Civilization - John G. Jackson
4. Christianity Before Christ - John G. Jackson
5. Introduction to African Religions - John S. Mbiti (1975)
6. Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousnes
s in South Africa – Jean and John Comaroff (1991)
7. The Spirit Of A Man – Iyanla Vanzant
8. There Is A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem – Wayne Dyer
9. Keeping Faith - Cornel West
Health
1. African Holistic Health - Llaila O. Afrika
2. Good Health For African Americans - Barbara M. Dixon
3. How To Eat To Live - Elijah Muhammad
4. The African American Kitchen - Angela Shelf Medearis (1997)
Inspiration / Motivation / Self-Help
2. Salvation: Black People and Love – Bell Hooks
3. Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem – Bell Hooks
4. The Four Agreements - D. Miguel Ruiz
5. Lanterns – Marion Wright-Edelman
6. Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan
7. The Power Of Now – Eckhart Tolle
8. The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
9. Way Of The Peaceful Warrior – Dan Millman
Psychology
1. Developmental Psychology of the Black Child - Amos N. Wilson
2. Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery - Na'im Akbar
3. African-Centered Psychology:€ Cultural Focusing for Multi-Cultural Compete
nce - Daudi Ajani Ya Azibo