Here are some books for your mind, body, and soul!
A word of caution-you can not approach any of the following with a closed mind!
Instead, they will all enable you to see the world in which we all live in from a broader perspective!
I, too, was skeptical of some of them myself!
Nevertheless, no pain . . . no gain!
1. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
2. George Orwell, 1984
3. George Orwell, Animal Farm
4. Frederick Douglas, Narrative of Frederick Douglas
5. Claud Anderson, Ed.D., Black Labor, White Wealth
6. Claud Anderson, Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Its Heroes and Other Trouble Makers
7. Leonard P. Curry, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850
8. Harold Cruse, Plural But Equal
9. Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
10. Lewis Lipsitz, American Democracy
11. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
12. Joseph Boskin, Sambo: The Rise and Demise of An American
13. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14. August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, From Plantation to Ghetto
15. Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress
16. Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization
17. Stanley Lebergott, The Americans: An Economic Record
18. Daniel J. Curran and Claire M. Renzetti, Social Problems
19. Peter Bergman, The Chronological History of the Negro in America
20. James Jennings, The Politics of Black Empowerment
21. John A. Garraty, The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1817 7th ed.
22. Eric Black, Our Constitution: The Myth That Binds Us
23. Madison and Jay Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
24. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
25. Norman E.W. Hodges, Black History
26. Vann Woodward, American Counterpoint: Slavery and Racism in the North/South Dialogue
27. James R. Kluegel and Eliot R. Smith, Beliefs About Inequality
28. Eric Foner, Reconstruction 1863—1877: American’s Unfinished Revolution
29. Haki R. Madhubuti, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
30. C. Eric Lincoln, My Face Is Black
31. David Brian Davis, Slavery and Human Progress
32. Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro
33. Thomas Sowell, The Economics and Politics of Race
34. Robert William Fogel, Without Consent of Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
35. Carl N. Degler, Neither Black or White
36. Dan Lacy, The White Use of Blacks In America
37. Douglas G. Glasgow, The Black Underclass: Poverty, Unemployment, and Entrapment of Ghetto Youth
38. James F. Davis, Who is Black: One Nation’s Definition
39. J.M. and M.J. Cohen, A Dictionary of Modern Quotations
40. Mortimer Chambers, et al., The Early Modern Period: The Western Experience 3rd ed.
41. E.N. Elliot, Cotton is King and Pro-Slavery Arguments
42. George M. Frederickson, The Arrogance of Race
43. E.W. Norman, Kipling
44. William N. Parker, The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South
45. John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990s
46. Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer, Pictorial History of the Negro In America
47. Richard A. Long, African Americans
48. James Dugan and John Hammond, An Early Black Music Concert From Spirituals to Swing, The Black Perspectives in Music
49. Rayford Logan, The Betrayal of the Negro
50. David M. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism