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treasure within: Stories of remembrance & rediscovery by Chike Akua -Imani
Enterprises for Sankofa Educational Services, Inc/Trade Paper- $15.00
Marcus is trying to make the grades to go to a summer basketball camp. But
will a recent fight and suspension ruin his plans? Ptahotep, guides Marcus
through the mistakes he made in the past and helps him chart a course for the
future.
A Reason for Being:
Imani likes Jamal. Kia insists that Imani should wear the “right” clothes to get
Jamal’s attention. But when Imani is caught violating the school dress code and
her parents’ dress code, will she be able to get his attention? Ma’at shares
with Imani the ancient wisdom which helps her tap the hidden power within and
assists her in making better decisions.
Daniel & the Djembe Drum
Disillusioned by the death of his father and the mounting peer pressure to
engage in self-destructive behavior, Daniel finds Babatunde, a master drummer
from Ghana. Can Babatunde, through the ancient art of drumming, help him face
the pressures of growing up and dealing with the death of his father?
In these three compelling short stories, Marcus, Imani, and Daniel learn to
operate in today’s world with the moral, cultural, and spiritual wisdom of the
Ancestors. Each are taken back in time to learn higher knowledge from ancient
African Ancestral Guides.
“A Treasure Within is the book that many of us have been waiting
for. The deep thinking of Ancient Africa is grasped and communicated clearly
through these three powerful stories. Families, counselors, teachers, and the
community in general, can relate directly to these stories…I am thankful for
this outstanding contribution to our mental and spiritual liberation. Our
Ancestors are pleased. Amun is satisfied.”
Asa G. Hilliard III – Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, Ed.D.
Fuller E. Calloway Profesor of Urban Education
Georgia State University
A treasure within: Parent / Teacher Guide
by Chike Akua -Imani Enterprises for Sankofa Educational Services, Inc/Trade
Paper- $15.00
A text full of insightful, engaging, and exciting
activities for children surrounding the themes of the three stories above. For
each story, activities include:
· Ancient African Character Education
· synopsis, character analysis
· additional historical reading selections
· discussion questions
· vocabulary worksheet
· reading comprehension exercises
· grammar review exercises
· answer key
· artistic activities and much more
This text is a culturally
conscious, character education curriculum all by itself.
 Heal Thyself: For Health and Longevity by
Queen Afua
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This is a call to the United Nations, to the communities of
the world. This is a call to our leaders - political, spiritual, educational,
business and artistic - who have an even greater responsibility to purify, lest
the people be led to mass destruction.
 Assata:
An Autobiography by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds (Foreword), Assata
Shakur -Lawrence Hill Books (November 1, 1999)/Trade Paper- $16.95
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This black activist's memoir is like a freeze frame of the late
1960s and early 1970s. Though the polemical rhetoric is dated, the book is an
otherwise compelling tale of the impact of white racism on a sensitive and
powerful young black woman. Born Joanne Chesimard, she took an African name to
confirm her commitment to black liberation, joined militant organizations, and
was ultimately convicted of the murder of a New Jersey highway patrol officer in
1977. Her descriptions of life in prison and the vagaries of the court system
are especially wrenching. Living now in Cuba as an escaped felon, she continues
her utopian plea for revolution. Recommended for large libraries and
specialists. Anthony O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
 Before the
Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone
Bennett, Jr. -Johnson Publishing Company (IL); New Millen edition (April
2003)/Hard Cover- $44.95
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Before the Mayflower traces black history from its origins in western Africa,
through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the
Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an
exploration of the complex realities of African-American life in the 1990s. Here is the
most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey
of "the other Americans," together with vital portraits of black pioneers and
seminal figures in the struggle for freedom, as well as additional material on historical
developments in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years.
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Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist
intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the
canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist
framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific
experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses
the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and
the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of
a new country's national consciousness. As Fanon eloquently writes, "[T]he
unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the
mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive
moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps."
Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first
published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the
ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene
Holley, Jr.
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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, $12.50 Order
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I am talking of millions of men who have been skillfully infected with fear,
inferiority complexes, trepidation, servility, despair, abasement. --Aime Cesaire,
Discours sur le Colonialisme
"The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon... or too late. I do not come
with timeless truths. My consciousness is not illuminated with ultimate radiances.
Nevertheless, in complete composure, I think it would be good if certain things were said.
These things I am going to say, not shout. For it is a long time since shouting has gone
out of my life. So very long.... Why write this book? No one has asked me for it.
Especially those to whom it is directed. Well? Well, I reply quite calmly that there are
too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it."
Book Review: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.
This book is a brilliantly insightful look into the psyche of what V.S. Naipaul calls the
"mimic men", that is colonials of color who virtually completely lose their
identity in their quest to imitate European behaviors, values, and standards of living.
For some this book is harsh, yet its impact throughout the African Diaspora cannot be
understated. This book is best viewed as a companion piece to E. Franklin Frazier's, The
Black Bourgeoisie, a book that was just as stinging and just as important in its analysis
of the Black American 'middle class' on the eve of integration. Each are well worth the
read and speak to their subject matters as clearly today as they did when they were
written.
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Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon, $12.00 Order by CK, MO & Call-In Credit Cards
Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was
one of the greatpolitical analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modem
revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had
a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements
around the world.
A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the
Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and
embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors
as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year
of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable
dynamics of colonial oppression.
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African-American History by Jeffrey C. Stewart $15.95
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In short, eminently readable mini-essays, a distinguished historian takes readers on a
journey through 500 years of African American history. Within seven broad sections, Dr.
Stewart cover people and events, both well-known and obscure. 200+ photos.
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 Black Labor, White
Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Dr. Claud Anderson, $16.95 Order
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"What I like about the book is Anderson’s search for solutions. He offers
practical courses of action that blacks can take to become politically and economically
competitive in America." -Dorothy Gilliam, The Washington Post
"Dr. Anderson.. .methodically outlines and articulates strategies for blacks to
become a self-empowered people in America despite the obvious injustices imposed on them
throughout much of their history in this country." - William L. Clay, Member
of Congress
"A historical analysis and a financial blueprint for the future of Black Economic
empowerment." -Ebony Magazine
"Before Republicans kill affirmative action, they should read a new book by
historian Claud Anderson, Black Labor White Wealth. It shows how white wealth in the USA
was developed by black labor and is maintained by preferential treatment for whites."
-Barbara Reynolds, USA Today
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 David Walker's Appeal : To the Coloured Citizens of the World,
but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America by James Turner, $9.95 Order
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David Walker's appeal is an uncomprimising African-centered discourse that attacks
white injustices and advocates Black sekf-reliance. Its publication in 1830 intensified
the debate and struggle against slavery. Walker asserted the right of Black people to
defend themselves against a common enemy by any means neccessary. More than a petition
against slavery, the Appeal is a foundational document from which many comtemporary themes
in Black political philosophy have evolved.
About the Author
David Walker was born Sept. 28, 1785 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Though his
father was enslaved, his mother was a free woman. The law in North Carolina, determined
that children inherited the status of the mother. Walker's mother was able to pass on to
him her free status, and she raised her child with a profound outrage towards slavery.
Walker readily established himself in the abolitionist community as a politically
conscious person who regularly attended local meetings and lectured against slavery. This
version of Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens to the World is the complete text as
published in 1830.
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Ivan Van Sertima's Books
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient
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From The Back Cover:
"I can't praise this book enough!...I kept shaking my head over its power."
-Ishmael Reed
"This book is long overdue...of first importance in the history of the
Americas." -J.L. Dillard, author of Black English
"Brilliantly, I think, he has demonstrated that there is far more to black history
tha the slave trade....There is no question but that the book is a landmark." -John
A. Williams
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America Revisited, $25.00 Order by CK, MO & Call-In Credit Cards
Many claims have been made over the years by notable
black and white scholars—Woodson, Rogers, Lawrence, Jackson, Bailey Gordon, Irwin,
Jeffreys, Cauvet, Wiener. They have all been dismissed. Some of these claims failed to
convince anyone but the converted because they needed to be backed up by corroboration
from many disciplines. To claim, for example, that Columbus saw “blacks” in
Haiti is one thing. To prove that those “blacks” were Africans was another,
since there are dark-skinned American Indians in tropical zones of America. Botany
(cotton), linguistics (the origin of the word guanin), metallurgy (the metal alloys in the
spears the blacks gave the Americans in trade), navigation (African boats tested on the
Atlantic), oceanography (the currents that provided an easy circular route for the
pre-Columbian West African trade), archaeology (new skeletal finds of Africans in the
Caribbean in a grave dated 1250 A.D.)—all these disciplines provided the
corroboration that was needed to establish that single claim on a scientific basis. This
book is Van Sertima’s original contribution to the subject at the end of a century of
speculation the definitive proof.
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Egypt Revisited : Journal of African Civilizations , $25.00,
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Child of Africa, $29.95 Order by CK, MO & Call-In Credit Cards
Backcover Text:
EGYPT CHILD OF AFRICA: Editorial African Origin of Ancient Egyptian Civilization
Tribute to a Departed Scholar (In memory of Dr. Chancellor Williams)
Nile Genesis: Continuity of Culture from the Great Lakes to the Delta
The Racial Identity of Ancient Egyptian Populations Based on the
Analysis of Physical Remains
Egypt is in Africa, but was Egypt African?
Black Land of Antiquity
From the Center to the Fringe: The Persistence of Racial Myths in
Physical Anthropological Theory
The Myth of the Mediterranean Race
Science of the Egyptians
Bringing Maat, Destroying Isfet
The Sixth Napatan Dynasty of Kush
The Problem of the Bernal-Davidson School
Ra-Hotep and Nofret: Modern Forgeries of the Cairo Museum
Seven Times Seven: The Seven Hermetic Principles of Ancient Egypt
The Newtonian Synthesis in Physical Science and its Roots in the Nile
Valley
Mathematics and Engineering in the Nile Valley
Nile Valley Origins of the Science of the Mind
The Symbolism of the Crown in Ancient Egypt
Kemetic Concepts of Education
The Voodoo Gallery: African Presence in the Ritual and Art of Haiti
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The lineaments of a lost science are now emerging and
we can glimpse some of the once buried reefs of this remarkable civilization. A lot more
remains to be revealed. But enough has been found in the past few years to make it quite
clear that the finest heart of the African world receded into the shadow while its broken
bones were put on spectacular display. The image of the African, therefore, has been built
up so far upon his lowest common denominator. In the new vision of the ancestor, we need
to turn our eyes away from the periphery of the primitive to the more dynamic source of
genius in the heartland of the African world.
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Black Women in Antiquity, $25.00 Order by CK, MO & Call-In Credit Cards
In an earlier preparation for this special volume,
Black Women in Antiquity, we were tempted to dwell upon the controversy raging over the
first woman, our earliest known human ancestor, the African mother of all mankind,
"Lucy." We have been forced to resist that temptation. Archeology has its
fascination, yes, but apart from Lucy's age (three and a half million years), her height
(three feet), her weight (sixty pounds), and her place of origin (Ethiopia) next to
nothing of very real significance in the study of woman is known about her.
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African Presence in Early Europe, $25.00 Order
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This book places into perspective the
role of the African in world civilization, in particular his little known contributions to
the advancement of Europe. A major essay on the evolution of the Caucasoid discusses
recent scientific discoveries of the African fatehrhood of man and the shift towards
albinism (dropping of pigmentation) by the Grimaldi African during an ice age (the Wurn
Interstadial) in Europe. The debt owed to African and Arab Moors for certain inventions
usually credited to the Renaissance is discussed, as well as the much earlier
Afro-Egyptian influence on Greek science and philosophy. The book is divided into six
parts: The First Europeans: AFrican Presence in the Ancient Mediterranean isles and
Mainland Greece; Africans in the European Religious Hierarchy (madonnas, saints and
popes); African Presence in Western Europe; African Presence in Northern Europe; African
Presence in Eastern Europe.
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Sixteen years have passed since They Came Before Columbus appeared, in
which Van Sertima presented most of the facts that were then known about the links between
Africa and America before Columbus. But since then many more sculptures have emerged from
the earth or from the backrooms of private collections. New stone heads have surfaced in
recent excavations while a very old one with a seven-braided Ethiopian hairstyle has come
out of a century of obscurity into sudden prominence. Far more sophisticated analyses may
now be presented of ancient African astronomy, map-making, scripts, navigation, trade
routes, pyramidal structures, linguistic connections, technological and ritual complexes.
In this collective work, Van Sertima is joined by half a dozen other colleagues. The work
focuses largely on contact between Africa and America towards the close of the Bronze Age
(circa 948-680 B.C.) and the Mandingo-Songhay trading voyages (from early fourteenth to
late fifteenth century).
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African Presence in Early Asia by Ivan Van
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The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America
looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By
turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge
Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul
on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been
a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages
of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.
From the Back Cover "A collection of essays
straight out of Dante's Inferno. The hell is there, and its name is America...as
with Malcolm X, Cleaver's book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of a soul in
search of itself, groping toward a personal humanism which will give meaning to life...the
book is important...the book is extraordinary."
--Shane Stevens, The Progressive
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 Invisible Man by Ralph
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First published in 1952, Invisible Man revealed the pain of a black man's
existence in a white world. It was shocking then, but remains important literature today.
It is the story of a young man's journey--through the Deep South to the streets of Harlem,
through events and experiences that range from tortured to macabre. As he moves through
time, he learns about the black world, the white world, and a world of his own. His
passage is a frightening but at the same time enlightening pilgrimage, for the Invisible
Man and for all of us. (amazon.com)
Book Review: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison. Without
question my favorite book of all time, one that permanently changed the way I looked at my
life. This novel has so many layers of meaning that each time I read it it continues to
give back to me. Besides being a truly 'realistic' portrayal of a young brother's journey
from a naive striver to a seasoned organizer on a mision, Ellison's ability to describe
sights, sounds, smells, music, and feelings is uncanny. While I don't like to knock many
of the contemporary fiction authors, every Black American novelist has to use this book as
the yardstick to judge his/her work. This book is best read together with Richard
Wright's, The Outsider. While they are two different books, reflecting two distinct points
of view, the two authors shared some interests and experiences and it shows. dotheknowledge@hotmail.com
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"Mis-Education of the Negro is a treasured classic within the pages of written
history. Without this book, a large "chunk" of the puzzle concerning
contemporary affirmative action policy debates would be amiss. Woodson offers much needed
answers & solutions and encapsulates them in a style that is still very much relevant
today." Wrote Leif A. Rivera M.S.W. (lrivera@tamu.edu) from College Station, TX.
Black folks who own this title also own these:
- Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles; Janice E.
Hale-Benson
- Black Bourgeoisie; Edward Franklin Frazier, et al
- Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of Euroean Thought and Behavior;
Marimba Ani
- The Souls of Black Folks; W. E. B. Dubois, et al
- The Isis Papers: Keys to the Colors; Frances Cress Welsing
- From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans; John Hope
Franklin, Alfred A. Moss (Contributor)
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This Book is more than just a critical examination of the war to revitalize the
African Worldview for the survival of people of African descent. Intellectual Warfare
offers insight and instructional methods to assist those individuals ready to make
African-centeredness a part of their lives; thereby choosing position in the battle to
defend the African Worldview.
By invoking the works of great teachers of our past, Intellectual Warfare
leads us back home to our "black" selves, our ideas and our spirituality.
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An attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not the Greeks, but
the peoples of Egypt. (From the Publisher)
Black folks who own this title also own these:
- The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality; Cheikh Anta Diop,
Mercer Cook (Editor)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The
Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985); Martin Bernal
- Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology; Cheikh Anta Diop,
Meema Yaa-Lengi Ngemi (Translator)
- Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500B.C.
to 2000A.D.; Chancellor Williams
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My Life in Search of Africa by John Henrik Clarke,
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"Dr. Clarke turns to the problems of historiography and the future agenda of
Pan African scholarship. He explains the colonization of our history and the exclusion of
African historians from world history, asserting that he is not a 'revisionist' but a
'correctionist'.
In Professor Clarke's opinion, Africans can best change the world by changing oruselves
first. To promote that kind of change, John Henrik Clarke has become a role model for
African Eldership those of us who are his disciples are struggling to hold erect the staff
that he has passed to us." Jocob Carruthers, ---From the "Introduction"
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2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams, $17.95 Order
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A "Must Read" for all Afro-Americans
"Chancellor Williams does an excellent job of not only identifying the issues
that we have endured as a people but he leaves you with something unique..... An Answer.
How often have you read a book telling us about all the problems in Black America and
abroad but then leave you with a feeling of " O.K. what do we do about it?" Well
this book does just the opposite. You are left with viable solutions. A most-excellent
book!!" Wrote Punisha25@aol.com from Brooklyn, NY
Black folks who own this title also own these:
- Stolen Legacy : Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
by George G. M. James
- The African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality; Cheikh Anta Diop,
Mercer Cook (Editor)
- They Came Before Columbus; Ivan. Van Sertima
- The Isis Papers: Keys to the Colors; Frances Cress Welsing
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Souls of Black Folk : With a New Introduction by Randall Kenan (Signet Classic)
by W. E. B. Dubois, et al, $4.95 Order by CK, MO & Call-In Credit Cards
First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained
history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from
Harvard and studied in Berlin, these 14 essays contain both the academic language of
sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow
songs." New introduction by Randall Kenan. Major school adoption title.
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- Malcollm X
- James Baldwin
- Fredrerick Douglas
- Eldridge Cleaver
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Black Men : Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? : The
Afrikan American Family in Transition : Essays in Discovery, Solution and Hope by Haki R. Madhubuti, $15.95 Order
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THIS BOOK IS A LANDMARK IN BLACK THOUGHT!
"AN EXCELLENT BOOK. I RECOMMEND ALL BLACK MEN TO READ THE THOUGHTS AND IDEAS THAT MR.
MADHUBUTI HAS TO SAY IN THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING BOOK DEALING WITH THE LIFE AND STRUGGLE OF
THE SO CALLED AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE. THIS BOOK WILL HELP ANY BLACK MAN SEEKING KNOWLEDGE
FIND ENLIGHTENMENT." (Wrote MyBug@aol.com from MEMPHIS, TN)
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 The Isis Papers: Keys to the Colors by Dr. Frances
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"White America validates the Isis Papers every day. "
"Only those who choose to keep their heads in the sand and remain in denial can
dispute the Isis Papers. You cannot judge people by how articulately they explain away
their intentions but solely on the merits of their deeds. The deeds of white America have
remained largely unchanged for the past three hundred years. It's time for all those
"good" "non-racist" whites to stand on the front lines and help
dismantle racism. Oh, but maybe if the playing field were leveled you might not win as
often. Hmmmmm.....could this be the real reason? Suggested reading to prove or disprove
the Isis Papers - audio tape "Great Black Speeches" our ancestors were
struggling against the EXACT same indignities in 1893 that face African-Americans in
1999." (Wrote digimill@hotmail.com)
Book Review: It is my opinion that
this book by Dr Frances Cress Welsing will find it self among the great literary and Human
rights works of all time. It has been said that Facts change but the truth never
changes, Time will show the world the truth in this extraordinary work of kindness to
humanity. This book can not be Appreciated or even understood fully without a
complete examination of self. One will emerge at the end of this book at the beginning of
self-examination and Re-examination of the world around him or her, Then you will read it
Again. Humans will find Flaws within the individual and flaws within the work it
self, but humanity will find no flaws within the value of this work. (by F. Emanuel Vernon
vernonf@marketweb.net.tr )
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Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America by
Nathan McCall, $14.00
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An explosive, true-life Native Son for the 1990s--a black Washington Post reporter who
served time recounts his life and brilliantly shows why prison has become a rite of
passage for many young black men. McCall's accounts of the hidden prejudice encountered in
seemingly liberal, integrated bastions of the newsroom are eye-opening. Examining the
complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an
African-American journalist recalls his own troubled childhood, his rehabilitation while
in prison, and his successful Washington Post career.
Black folks who own this title also own these:
- What's Going On: Personal Essays; Nathan McCall
- Manchild in the Promised Land; Claude Brown
- Native Son; Richard Wright
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcolm X, et al
- Soul On Ice; Eldridge Cleaver
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Laughing in the Dark : From Colored Girl to
Woman of Color--A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines, $14.00
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An award-winning Washington Post reporter explores the twisted path she traveled
to find her place as a confident black female in a world that values whiteness and
maleness. Here is a rich and insightful story of a life lived on the edge by a woman
formerly preoccupied with pleasing everyone but herself.
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Book Review: 11-10-00 I AM CURRENTLY READING
MONSTER KODY AND AM QUITE IMPRESSED WITH THE DETAIL AND HONESTY THAT THIS MAN POSSESES. TO
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Autobiographical novel by Claude Brown, published in 1965. The work was noted for its
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Book Review: 7-13-00 I read this book when I was 13 years old
and am now 31. I felt the pain and struggle of the Harlemites, through and through.....I
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our people and the beginning of the break down of the Black Family Structure. I recommend
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