African American Readings... Short List

Below is a short list of African American Readings... I am most interested in non-fiction writing. I have plenty more ideas but hoping people can learn from this list and offer suggestions as well.

Ani, Marimba – Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior

Baldwin, James – The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name

Carmichael, Stokeley – Black Power

Crawford, Vikki – Women of the civil Rights Movement

Davis, Angela – Women, Race & Class

Diop, Cheikh Anta - The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

DuBois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folks

Fanon, Franz - Wretched of the Earth; Black Skin, White Masks

Giddens, Paula – When and Where I Enter

Hill-Collins, Patricia – Black Feminist Thought

Holsaert, Faith S. (ed) – Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC

hooks, bell – Black Looks; Killing Rage

King Jr., Martin – Where Do We Go From Here?; Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Paton, Alan – Cry, the Beloved Country

Pattillo-Beals, Melba – Warriors Don’t Cry

Tatum, Beverly – Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together at the Cafeteria Table?

van Sertima, Ivan – They Came Before Columbus
Welsing, Francis Cress- The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

West, Cornell – Race Matters

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean – Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French

Woodson, Carter G. – The Miseducation of the Negro

X, Malcolm – By Any Means Necessary; The Ballot or the Bullet