Here is a synopsis of a few popular and interesting books on black American history-
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat
Marable, Manning, Paradigm Publishers, January 2005, Paperback:
It brings out the interconnections, unity, and consistency of W. E. B. Du Bois's life and writings. Marable covers Du Bois's disputes with Booker T. Washington, his founding of the NAACP, his work as a social scientist, popular figure, and his involvement in politics, placing them into the context of Du Bois's views on black pride, equality, and cultural diversity. Marable stresses that, as a radical democrat, Du Bois viewed the problems of racism as intimately connected with capitalism.
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son:
Wise, Tim, Soft Skull Press, January 2005, Paperback
In "White Like Me," Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a narrative that is at once readable and scholarly, analytical, and accessible.
A Personal Odyssey:
Sowell, Thomas, Free Press, 2000, Hardcover
This is the gritty story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry.
Black History and Black Identity: A Call for a New Historiography by W. D. Wright. 247 pgs.
This study contends that historians and intellectuals failed to understand the difference between race and ethnicity, which has in turn impaired their ability to understand who Black people are in America. The author argues that Black Americans are to be distinguished from other categories of black people in the country: black Africans, West Indians, or Hispanics.
While Black people are members of the black race, as are other groups of people, they are a distinct ethnic group of that race. This conceptual failure has hampered the ability of historians to define Black experience in America and to study it in the most accurate, authentic, and realistic manner possible.
Other books on black American history-
The Book of the Glory of the Blacks
The Golden Age of West African Civilization
Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo
The Turning Tide: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1946-1958)
by Margaret Dornfeld. 119 pgs.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Sep 7, 2010)
Afrikan Genesis, Volume I
African Origins of the Major Western Religions
Royal Arts of Africa
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics) by Booker T. Washington and Louis R. Harlan (Jan 7, 1986)
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
The Irritated Genie
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Frederick Douglass and David W. Blight (Dec 25, 2002)
The Zimbabwe Culture
Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of Africa & Arabia
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