 | Never Drank the Kool-Aid: Essays by Toure
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.54 Toure is a fascinating hip hop journalist with an incredibly unique perspective on contemporary black music, culture, and identity.
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 | Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic by Mark Antho Neal
Buy new: $22.23 / Used from: $13.13 Introducing the new concept of the "Post-Soul Aesthetic" Neal gives a vibrant critical analysis of black popular culture: its beauty, its contradictions, and its complexities.
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 | Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation by Mark Antho Neal
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $10.00 Neal creates a remarkable, sensuous space to expound upon the ever perplexing terrain of black popular music.
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 | The Michael Eric Dyson Reader by Michael Eric Dyson
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.96 Dyson can be quite abstract, but if you can follow him, he will lead you into an intellectually captivating space of social, religious, and popular criticism exploring our cultural complexities.
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 | When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan
Buy new: $10.14 / Used from: $1.93 This is Morgan's brilliant account about being an intellectual black female coming of age in the hip hop generation. It's bold, witty, and courageous.
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 | The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson
Buy used from: $1.50 Powerful and absorbing. Masterful and engaging. Informative and Brilliant.
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 | Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback) by James Baldwin
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $1.99 This is a searing masterpiece from America's most fascinating and genius essayist. No one can engage and light up the mind like Baldwin at his best. Stellar.
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 | The Devil Finds Work: Essays by James Baldwin
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $1.93 A deeply intelligent essay regarding America's delusional images, obsessions, and eroded dreams.
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 | The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $2.45 This searing portrait of Baldwin's spiritual and racial awakening. He not only writes with fiery passion but with unsettling wit and candor.
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 | Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $13.84 A dense, analytical and fascinating account of our richly complex cinematic experience.
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 | The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader by Amiri Baraka
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $0.01 Baraka is one of the most engaging, challenging, and intellectual thinkers of our time. A revolutionary mind with an extraordinary gift for words.
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 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.91 One of my favorite books. Probably the richest, most riveting autobiographies ever written.
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 | Three Negro Classics by Booker T. Washington
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.05 A comprehensive collection of some of the greatest writing on the African-American experience: The Souls of Black Folks, Up from Slavery, and The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man.
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 | A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King
Buy new: $16.31 / Used from: $9.00 King was brilliant and more militant than the media paints him. A must-read.
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 | The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
Buy used from: $12.90 Unflinching and brilliant. A powerful psychological analysis of Black people in America. Only read it if you're REALLY ready for the truth.
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 | The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave by Kashif Malik Hassan-El
Buy used from: $4.95 It may be passed off as fiction. But thats not the point. This is a must read book about the psychic scarring of the black mind because of the slavery/hellacaust.
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 | Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.37 Very informative account on the government's attempt to control and destroy the black body.
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 | They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.38 An immensely informative and comprehensive historical documentation on the complexity of our history.
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 | Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane Diouf
Buy new: $18.81 / Used from: $7.25 Chronicles the African Muslim peoples during the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in America.
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 | Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $7.48 The teachings from the Egyptian mystery schools stolen by the Greeks. Know your history.
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 | Islam in Black America by Edward E. Curtis IV
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $17.64 Explores the multi-dimensional realms of African American Islamic thought.
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 | Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition by Lerone Bennett
Buy used from: $0.36 Immense, thought-provoking, important and insightful.
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 | A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn
Buy used from: $7.27 Zinn's uncompromising, radical and vibrant account blowing the lid off America's increasingly dark, severely complex history.
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 | Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey (Dover Thrift Editions) by Marcus Garvey
Buy new: $4.00 / Used from: $1.78 Powerful! This is an amazing collection of his speeches and essays. Garvey was militant, brilliant, and courgeous like no other.
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 | Betty Shabazz by Rickford
Buy used from: $0.36 Immense and extraordinary. Not just Malcolm X's widow but also an insightful biography about being a black leader in her own right. An important book.
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