RECOMMENDED LITERATURE


Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
by James Allen

I brought him to Fisk when I taught there (he's white) and I have never seen an audience cry as much as I did when he should the absolutely brutal pictures of how, where and why We were lynched. This is very harsh stuff and everyone should be cautioned when they
see it.

100 Years of Lynching
by Ralph Ginzburg

Another book by a Jewish author but it is absolutely good.

The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews
by the Nation of Islam Research Department

This book is *very* controversial in the US, but is extensively footnoted. Of course the Jews here freaked out when it was published because it has a vague authorship. I know who published it, but am not at liberty to say. Jews want to make it appear that they had nothing to do with the TAST, but in fact much of the trade, particularly to the Caribbean was financed by Jewish merchants. Good book for documenting facts. I also like it because while the Jews are pointing fingers "for us" to the Arabs, they fail to see that four more are pointing to their own complicity in the trade.

King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild

Cikiah, you're familiar with this well-documented book on the horrors inflicted upon the Kongo by Belgium beginning in the middle part of the 19th century. An estimated 10,000,000 of our people were slaughtered and maimed by the only European country who *did* not have a colony in Afrika.

The Destruction of Black Civilization
by Chancellor Williams

No other book rivals the sheer scope of telling what happened to Us for the past 1000 years. Opinionated, Williams who taught at Howard before his death, believes that the rape of Afrika should not neglect the brutality of both Europe AND the Arabs. A powerful introduction to how the TAST began.

There is a River
by Vincent Harding

Tells the story of Afrikans in Amerikkka from their point of view from 1619 to the Civil War. They are the subjects of the narrative rather than just the objects.

Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans
by Asante, Molefi & Mattson, Mark (1991)

This book provides a panoramic view of the history of African Americans---from Egypt to the present. Asante provides a wealth of photographs, drawings and maps that help to locate African people geographically, historically and psychologically. A basic book for understanding African people. I like it because it is well- documented and shows the paths of the TAST and how various Afrikan groups were routed across the Atlantic.

Of Revelation and Revolution:Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa
by Comaroff, Jean and John (1991)

Presents the argument of how Western Christianity was the fundamental
rationale for the establishment of apartheid in South Africa.

Africanisms in American Culture
by Holloway, Joseph E. (1990)

This book examines the sometimes unnoticed influence that African culture had on the development of American linguistic formation, games, holidays and food. It shows the persistance of Afrikan culture during and after the TAST in the so-called west.Pieterse, Jan Nederven (1992) White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture.

A rare book that documents through extensive photographs and graphics how white supremacy was (is) interwoven throughout the history of European domination of the Earth. The Dutch author’s indictment of the cultural supports of white supremacy is rare among European social scientists.