Black Writers


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Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart, Anthills of Savannah, The Trouble with Nigeria
Akbar, Na'im: Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery, From Miseducation to Education
Akbar, Na'im: Natural Psychology and Human Transformation
Alexander, Margaret Walker: Jubilee, Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius, This is my Century: New and Collected Poems
Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Armah, Ayi Kwei: Two Thousand Seasons, The Healers, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments
Asante, Molefe Kete: Afrocentricity, The Afrocentric Idea

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Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Another Country, Price of the Ticket
Bambara, Toni Cade: The Sea Birds Are Still Alive, The Salt Eaters, The Black Woman(ed.)
Baraka, Amiri: Black Magic Poetry 1961-1967, Home: Social Essays, In Our Terribleness (With Billy Abernathy), Black Music, Blues People
Beason, Jake Patton: Why We Lose
Bell, Derrick: Are We Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Reform
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef: Black Man of Nile, African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"
Bennett, Jr., Lerone: Before The Mayflower, The Shaping of Black America
Biko, Steve: I Write What I Like
Blackwell, James E.: The Black Community: Diversity and Unity
Bontemps, Arna: Black Thunder
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau: Islands, Masks, Rights of Passage, Sun Poems
Brooks, Gwendolyn: Blacks: Collected Works, Report From Part One, To Disembark, Winnie, Primer for Blacks
Browder, Anthony T.: From the Browder File
Brown, Claude: Manchild in the Promised Land
Brown, Sterling: Collected Poems of Sterling Brown

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Carruther, Jacob: The Irritated Genie, Science and Oppression, Essays In Ancient Egyptian Studies
Cesaire, Aime: Discourse on Colonialism, Collected Poems
Chinweizu: Decolonizing The African Mind, The West and the Rest of Us
Cliff, Michelle: The Land of Look Behind
Clifton, Lucille: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, Next: New Poems
Cortez, Jayne: Coagulations: New and Selected Poems
Cress: Welsing, Frances: The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
Cruse, Harold: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Plural But Equal

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Davis, George and Clegg Watson: Black Life in Corporate America
Diop, Cheikh Anta: The African Origin of Civilization, Pre-Colonial Africa, Black Africa: the Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
Douglass, Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Drake, St. Clair: Black Folk Here and There: An Essay in History and Anthropology, The Redemption of Africa and Black Religion
Du Bois, W.E.B.: The World and Africa, The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn, etc.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: Collected Poems
Dumas, Henry: Rope of Wind, Ark of Bones, Goodbye, Sweetwater

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Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man
Evans, Mari: Black Women Writers: 1950-1980, I Am a Black Woman: Poetry, Nightstar: Poetry

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Fanon, Frantz: The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism
Fields, Julia: East of Moonlight
Frazier, E. Franklin: Black Bourgeoisie, The Negro Family in the United States
Fuller, Hoyt W.: Journey to Africa
Fuller, Neely: The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept

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Gaines, Ernest J.: In My Father's House, A Gathering of Old Men, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Gary, Lawrence E. (ed.): Black Men
Gayle, Jr., Addison: The Black Aesthetic(ed.), Richard Wright, The Way of the New World, Wayward Child: An Autobiography
Giddings, Paula: When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Gilbert, Herman: The Negotiations
Gordon, Vivian: Black Women, Feminism and Black Liberation: Which Way?
Greenlee, Sam: The Spook Who Sat by the Door

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Hale, Janice E.: Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles
Harding, Vincent: There is a River
Hare, Nathan & Julia: The Endangered Black Family, Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood, The Black Anglo-Saxons (Nathan Hare), Crisis in Black Sexual Politics (eds.)
Hayden, Robert: Collected Poems
Head, Bessie: A Question of Power
Himes, Chester: Third Generation, If He Hollers Let Him Go
Hooks, Bell: Ain't I A Woman
Hurston, Zora Neale: Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tell My Horse, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Dust Tracks on a Road

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Jackson, John G.: Man, God and Civilization, Christianity Before Christ, Introduction to African Civilization
Jackson, George L.: Blood in My Eye, Soledad Brother
James, George G. M.: Stolen Legacy
Johnson, James Weldon: Autobiography of An Ex: Colored Man
Jones, Reginald L. (ed.): Black Psychology
Jordan, June: Civil Wars

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Karenga, Maulana: Introduction to Black Studies, The Husia, Kawaida Theory: An Introductory Outline, Kwanzaa: Origins, Concepts, Practice
Kelly, William Melvin: A Different Drummer, A Drop of Patience, Dancers on the Shore
Kenyatta, Jomo: Facing Mount Kenya
King, Jr., Woodie (ed.): New Plays for the Black Theatre

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Ladner, Joyce A.: Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman, The Death of White Sociology
Landry, Bart: The New Black Middle Class

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Madhubuti, Haki R.: Don't Cry, Scream, Book of Life, From Plan to Planet, Enemies: the Clash of Races, Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions, Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors, Black Men: Obsolete, Single and Dangerous?
Mandela, Nelson: The Struggle is My Life
Mandela, Winnie: Part of My Soul Went With Him
Marable, Manning: How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Marshall, Paule: Brown Girl, Brownstones
Martin, Tony: Race First
McAdoo, Harriette Pipes (ed.): Black Families (2nd ed.), Black Children (with John Lewis McAdoo)
McCall, Nathan: Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
McKay, Claude: Selected Poems, A Long Way From Home, Banana Bottom
Monroe, Sylvester: Brothers: Black and Poor: A True Story of Courage and Survival
Moore, Mafori and others: Transformations: A Rites of Passage Manual for African- American Girls
Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved

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National Urban League: The State Of Black America 1989 (annual report)
Neal, Larry: Hoodoo Hollerin Bebop Ghosts, Visions of a Liberated Future
Nettleford, Rex M.: Identity Race and Protest in Jamaica
Ngugi, Wa Thiong'o: Petals of Blood, Devil on the Cross
Nkrumah, Kwame: Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Nobles, Wade: Africanity and the Black Family, Understanding the Black Family: A Guide for Scholarship and Research (with Lawford C. Goddard), African-American Families: Issues, Insights and Directions (with Goddard, Cavil and George)

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Obadele, Imari: Free the Land!, Repartions Yes! (with Lumumba and Taifa)

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Padmore, George: Pan-Africanism or Communism
Parks, Carole (ed.): Nommo: A Literary Legacy of Black Chicago 1967-1987
Perkins, Useni Eugene: Home is a Dirty Street, Harvesting New Generations, The Explosion of Black Chicago Street Gangs
Pinkney, Alphonso: The Myth of Black Progress, The American Way of Violence, Red, Black and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States

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Randall, Dudley: The Black Poets, Homage to Hoyt Fuller
Reed, Ishmael: Reckless Eyeballing, Flight to Canada, The Last Days of Louisiana Kid, Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper
Robeson, Paul: Here I Stand
Rodney, Walter: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Rogers, J.A.:Sex and Race Vol. 1-3, Great Men of Color, Vol. 1&2

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Salaam, Kalamu ya: Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling, Revolutionary Poems, What is Life
Sanchez, Sonia: I've Been a Woman, Love Poems, Under a Soprano Sky, Homegirls and Handgrenades
Shakur, Assata: Assata
Shakur, Sanyika: Monster
Smith, Barbera A.: Home Girls
Southern, Eileen: The Music of Black Americans
Soyinka, Wole: The Man Died, Ake, Season of Anomy
Staples, Robert: Black Masculinity: The Black Male's Role in American Society, The Black Family: Essays and Studies, The World of Black Singles
Stedy, Filomina Chioma (ed.): The Black Woman Cross-Culturally

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Terry, Wallace: Bloods
Toomer, Jean: Cane
Travis, Dempsey: Real Estate is the Gold in Your Future

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Van Sertima, Ivan: They Came Before Columbus, Journal of African Civilizations (ed.): Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern Black Women in Antiquity, Nile Valley Civilizations African Presence in Early Asia,
African Presence in Early Europe, Great African Thinkers (Cheikh Anta Diop)
African Presence in Early America, Great Black Leaders Ancient and Modern
African Presence in World Cultures

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Walker, Alice: The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Living By the Word, Horses Make Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Temple of My Familiar
Wallace, Phyllis: Black Women in the Labor Force
Walters, Ronald W.: Black Presidential Politics in America: A Strategic Approach
Walton, Hanes: Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior
Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery
White, Evelyn C.: Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women Dealing with Physical and Emotional Abuse
Williams, Chancellor: The Destruction of Black Civilization, The Rebirth of African Civilization
Williams, John A.: The Man Who Cried I Am, Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, Jacobs Ladder
Williams, Richard: They Stole It But You Must Return It
Williams, Terry: The Cocaine Kids
Wilson, Amos: The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
Wilson, Julius: The Truly Disadvantaged
Woodson, Carter G.: The Mis-education of the Negro, etc.
Wright, Bobby E.: The Psychopathic Racial Personality and other Essays
Wright, Bruce: Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Justice System Doesn't Work for Blacks
Wright, Richard: Black Boy, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children, The Outsider, White Man, Listen!, Black Power

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X, Malcolm: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Yette, Sam: The Choice

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