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Bookworms Unite! 003
Julie Mehretu
the drawings
Angel Kyodo Williams
Being Black
Megan McCafferty
the Jessica Darling series
Joseph Needham
Science and Civilisation
John Henrik Clarke
Black American Short Stories
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Bookworms Unite! 003
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Abu-Jaber, Diana.
Crescent (re re reading)
Salahuddin Ahmed
A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Lt. Gen. A.I. Akram
The Sword of Allah (This book proves Beckwourth/DuSable/Pickett/Love-type personalities aren’t just in the Scattered West)
Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
Michael Bennet and Vanessa D. Dickerson, ed.
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-representations By African American Women)
Brother G.
Shades of Memnon. Book II: Ra Force Rising (this brother is one of Dr. Clyde Ahmed Winters students; I liked book one, even gave a copy to my dad)
Georg Buhler, trans.
The Laws of Manu (amazes me every time I read it)
Edward Bruce Bynum
The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology
(might explain why white folks like me and so many Black folks don’t… LOL)
Jacob H. Carruthers
The Irritated Genie: an essay on the Haitian Revolution
Stephen L. Carter
The Emperor of Ocean Park (brilliant!)
Pearl Cleage
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (kind of a sad read)
H.A.L. Craig
Bilal (Radhiya Allah anhu)
Basil Davidson
The Lost Cities of Africa (re re re reading)
James T. Haley
Afro-American Encyclopedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, And Saying of the Race (been reading this repeatedly for years – I swear Africans in the West will make great Muslim rulers one day)
J.C. DeGraft-Johnson
African Glory
Hehi Metu Ra Enkamit
African Names: The Anciet Eyptian Keys to Unlocking Your Power and Destiny
Michael A. Gomez
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identites in the Colinal And Antebelleum South
Lawrence Otis Graham
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (you know, it puts E. Franklin Frazier into a new spotlight, yet they’re still the vanguard and with some Afrikanization, a few hugs, and a thanks or two… re-reading)
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery (rereading it. Now sisters I believe in height-wieght proportionate too, but...re Afrikanization!)
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Middleton Harris, et. al.
The Black Book
Alexander Heidel
The Babylonian Genesis
Robert G. Henricks, trans.
Lao-Tzu’s the Te-Tao Ching
Asa G. Hilliard (Nana Baffour Amankwatia II)
The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization
Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark
Black Masters: Free Families of Color in the Old South
Okeyo A. Jumal
Spiritual Shackles (re re reading; young brothers, yet again an elder proves that older men understand sisters… :0 )
William Loren Katz
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
William Loren Katz
Black Women Of the Old West (confirms the comfort I felt around the Aryans and Turco-Mongols)
James Mellon, ed.
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember (re-re-re-re-reading; Never forget!)
Patrick Minges
Black Indian Slave Narratives
Wade W. Nobles
Seeking the Sakhu (re reading- it’s bit unfeminine, but has great info.)
Theophile Obenga
Readings in Precolonial Central Africa
Theophile Obenga
Origine Commune De L’Egyptien Ancien
Du Copte Et Des Langues Negro-Africaines Modernes
(Related Origin of Coptic Ancient Egyptian and Modern Black-African Languages)
Catherine Peck, ed.
A Treasury of North-American Folk Tales (re re reading)
William D. Piersen
Black Legacy: America’s Hidden Heritage (great info on the KKK)
Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts in Modern Senegal (great photos)
Randall Robinson
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (re re reading)
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
The Art of Thinking: A Guide to Critical and Creative Thought (got in the habit of reading these – thanks Ms. Tookey, even if I still prefer heartfelt to logic)
Columbus Salley
The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential African-Americans Past and Present
Saint Solomon
Uncle Sams Nieces and Nephews (got this at an ASCAC Conference, and just getting around to reading it)
S.R. Sarai (yours truly’s middle names)
David (cuz he’s yummy)
S.R. Sarai (yours truly’s middle names)
Choosing Deceit (Black-Indians unite!)
Dempsey J. Travis
An Autobiography of BLACK Chicago (signed copy in ’83- thanks to ummi and abu- still read it)
Renita J. Weems
Battered Love: Marriage, Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Part of my Kemetic study)
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (I re re read this because Dr Welsing is still one of the few feminine voices in the Afrikan scholarly community and her statements on the gun make more and more sense over time)
Edward Christopher Williams
When Washington Was In Vogue (you’ll fall in love with bougie Black folks over and over)
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