Suggested Readings

Acuna, Rodolfo "Occupied America: The Chicano’s Struggle Toward Liberation"
Adoff, Arnold "My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry"
Agee, Philip "Inside the Company: CIA Diary on the Run"
Amnesty International "Annual Report"
"United States of America - Rights for All"
Aptheker, Herbert "A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States"
Aronowitz, A. & Giroux, H. "Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Debate Over Schooling"
Baldwin, James "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
"Jimmy's Blues"
Bantam Books "The Organizer’s Manual - The Organizer’s Manual Collective"
Baraka, Amiri "Blues People"
"Daggers and Javelins"
"Peace, Justice, Equality, and Socialism"
The Motion of History"
"Selected Poetry"
"Selected Plays and Prose"
Bennett, Jr., Lerone "Before the Mayflower"
Berkeley International Liberation School "Beat the Heat: A Radical Survival Handbook"
Bishop, Maurice "Education Is Production Too" (Speech)
"Grenada: Fight Unemployment With Production" (Speech)
Blackstock, Nelson "COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom"
Bolden, Tonya "Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men"
Bowles S. & Gintis, H. "Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life"
Boyd, Julia A. "In the Company of My Sisters: Black Women and Self-Esteem""
Bradley, Michael "The Iceman Inheritance"
Brown, Dee "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
Bunch, C. & Pollack, S. "Learning Our Ways: Essays in Feminist Education"
Cabral, Amilcar "Return to the Source: Selected Speeches"
"Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings"
Chomsky, Noam "Class Warfare"
"The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda"
"Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda"
"Struggle for Democracy: Political Writings of Noam Chomsky"
Chomsky, Noam & Herman, E. "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media"
Citadel Press "The Book of the Dead"
Clark, Austin "Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack"
Cockburn, Alexander "Corruptions of Empire"
Cockburn, Leslie "Out of Control"
Cone, James H. "Black Theology & Black Power"
Cooper, William "Behold A Pale Horse"
Cress-Welsing, Frances "The Isis Papers"
Cruse, Harold "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual"
Daniel, Lloyd "Liberation Education: A Strategy for the 21st Century"
Davidson, Harry "Somebody’s Trying to Kill You"
Davis, Angela "Women, Race & Class"
Dillard, J.L. "Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States"
Diop, Cheikh Anata "The African Origin of Civilization"
Dixon, Leon "Future in Our Hands"
"The Osirian Legend"
DuBois, W.E.B. "The Souls of Black Folk"
"The World and Africa"
Editorial El Coqui "Can’t Jail the Spirit (Political Prisoners in the U.S.)"
Fanon, Frantz "The Wretched of the Earth"
Ferencz & Keys, Jr. "Planet Hood"
Frazier, E. Franklin "Black Bourgeoisie"
Freire, Paulo "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
Freire Paulo & "Literacy: Reading the Word & the World"
Fremantle, Anne "Mao Tse-tung: An Anthology of His Writing"
Giroux, H. "Theory & Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Oppressed"
Giroux, H. & "The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education: Deception or Discovery"
Gregory, Dick "Cooking With Mother Nature"
"Nigger: An Autobiography"
"Callous on My Soul: A Memoir"
Greenlee, Sam "The Spook Who Sat by the Door"
Guevara, Che "Guerrilla Warfare"
Guinier, Lani "The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy"
Haley, Alex "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
Hamilton & Moser "In the Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World"
Hare, Nathan & Julia "Crisis in Black Sexual Politics" (eds.)
Harrington, Michael "The New American Poverty"
Hoffman, Abbie "Steal This Book"
Hooks, Bell "Ain’t I A Woman"
Horcasitas, Fernando "The Aztecs: Then and Now"
Hurston, Zora Neale "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Hutchinson, Earl Ofari "The Assassination of the Black Male Image"
Jackson, John G. "Introduction to African Civilizations"
James, George G.M. "Stolen Legacy"
Johnson, Oliver "Breaking the Chains of Cocaine: Black Male Addiction and Recovery"
Jordan, June "Civil Wars"
Karenga, Maulana Ron "Kwanzaa: Origins, Concepts, Practice".
Katz, William Loren "Breaking The Chains: African American Slave Resistance"
Kennedy, Paul "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
Kiernan, V.G. "America: The New Imperialism"
King, Jr., Martin Luther "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" (Speech)
Kozol, Johathan "Death at an Early Age"
"Illiterate America"
Kunjufu, Jawanza "Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys"
"To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group"
"Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children"
Lenin, V.I. "On Just and Unjust Wars"
Livingstone, D. "Critical Pedagogy & Cultural Power""
Madhubuti, Haki R. "Black Men: Obsolete, Single and Dangerous?"
"Don't Cry, Scream"
"Groundwork: New and Selected Poems from 1906 - 1996"
Marable, Manning "Blackwater: Historical Studies in Race, Class Consciousness and Revolution"
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America"
Matthiesen, Peter "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse"
Miami Herald July 5, 1987 (Plans for Martial Law)
July 19, 1987 (Plans for Martial Law)
Nader, Ralph "Big Boys: Power & Position in American Business"
Neimark, Philip John "The Way of the Orisa: Empowering Your Life Through the Ancient African Religion of Ifa"
Ngugi, Wa Thiong’O "Petals of Blood"
Nkrumah, Kwame "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism"
"Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare"
O’Reilly, Kenneth "Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America 1960 - 1972"
O’Shaughnessy, Hugh "Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath"
Parenti, Michael "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media"
Perfection Learning "Retold World Myths"
Perfection Learning "Retold African Myths"
Powell, William "The Anarchist Cookbook"
Randall, Dudley "The Black Poets"
Reed, Ishmael "Reckless Eyeballing"
Reitz, Charles "Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement With Herbert Marcuse"
Robinson, Randall "Defending the Spirit"
"The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks"
Rodney, Walter "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
Rogers, J.A. "Sex and Race" - Vol. 1-3
Salaam, Kalamu ya "Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling"
Sanchez, Sonia "Homegirls and Handgrenades"
Sankara, Thomas "Thomas Sankara Speaks"
Schaef, Ann Wilson "Women’s Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society"
Shange, Ntozake "Nappy Edges"
Shakur, Assata "Assata"
Sheehan, Daniel P. "Affidavit filed on December 12, 1986/April, 1987"
Singer, Pete "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals"
Smith, Mbembe Milton "Selected Poems"
Souljah, Sister "No Disrespect"
Staples, Robert "The World of Black Singles"
Stokes, Bruce "Helping Ourselves: Local Solutions to Global Problems"
Toffler, Alvin "Power Shift"
"Third Wave"
"Third Wave"
Toomer, Jean "Cane"
T’Shaka, Oba "The Political Legacy of Malcolm X"
Tzu, Sun "The Art of War"
Van Sertima, Ivan " They Came Before Columbus"
"African Presence in Early Asia"
"African Presence in Early Europe"
"Black Women in Antiquity"
Vanzant, Iyanla "The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman’s Guide Through Life's Dilemmas"
Walker, Alice "The Color Purple"
Welch, S. "Communities of Resistance and Solidarity: A Feminist Theology of Liberation"
West, Cornell "Race Matters"
Weyler, Rex "Blood of the Land: the Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement"
Williams, Chancellor "The Destruction of Black Civilizations"
"The Rebirth of African Civilization
Woodson, Carter G. "The Mis-education of the Negro"
Woodward, Robert "The Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987"
X, Malcolm "Malcolm X Talks to Young People"

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