Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality
8 best books like Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality (Richard Thompson Ford): The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Wretched of the Earth, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister....
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
| Author | Carter G. Woodson |
| ISBN | 1564110419 |
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
| Author | Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts |
"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject....Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that--all of which this book displays in abundance." (Zadie Smith, Harper's)
A finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, and a New York...
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
| Author | George L. Jackson |
| ISBN | 1556522304 |
A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion...
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
| Author | Rebecca Walker |
| ISBN | 1593764170 |
Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women’s fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse as Staceyann Chin and Audre Lorde, Black...
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
| Author | Touré |
| ISBN | 1439177554 |
This is a good book. It's almost a 'how to behave yourself' manual fit for all races. I'd like to believe everyone would read this and we would all get our shit together.
There are aspects of race that we humans will always react to. There has been and always will be tribes because "birds of a feather...
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
| Author | Tom Burrell |
| ISBN | 1401925928 |
“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “No way!”...
