For all discussion regarding continental African + Afro-Descendant people. Afro-American, Afro-Latino, African, Afro-European, Afro-Arab & Afro-Caribbean folks

EDUCATION

Efforts have been made by our elders in the past to change this condition and it is now our time and our responsibility to continue this effort.
Whether you are Afrocentric, Panafricanist, Black Panther or New Black Panther, Black Muslim or Hebrew, any other black ideology or just a humanist, I welcome you to share,teach, learn and plan about the future and past of afro descendants people.

You have here a great opportunity to exchange ideas with other intelligent young people and maybe find a partner for a future greater project.

In order to avoid fruitless efforts you must respect these rules:

1. Try to find common ground with people who disagree with you. Don't forget why we do this and what is the bigger cause. Don't forget that we have something in common.

2. Do not reply to trolls. This is very important. Anybody that is against the premise of this thread will logically NOT contribute anything constructive to this idea.

3. Ask yourself if the heated discussion you are engaging in, is really worth it. There is always someone that would have been happy if you used your energy into helping him gaining knowledge instead of wasting it on someone you probably can't convince.

Shoutout to MLK and The Wrecking Crew.

I'll try to list out required non-fiction reading relevant to different sections of the Diaspora as well as general/Pan-African materials but I don't know much about Afro-European lit so someone direct me lol

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He got assasinated a couple of months later by W*stern backed coup-plotters...

RIP

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Are there any black mods in this forum?

@Goddess

black power, f*** the cacs

African Americans (Foundational Black Americans, American Descendants of Enslaved Africans on U.S. Soil)
D*** Gregory - The Shadow That Scares Me
Eddie S. Glaude Jr - Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Donald Bogle - Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition
Patricia Hill Collins - Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Douglas A. Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
Tom Burrell - Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
Edward E. Baptist - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Joy DeGruy - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
William Henry Chafe - Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
Manning Marable & Leith Mullings (editors) - Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology
Carter G. Woodson - The Miseducation of the Negro
Lerone Bennett Jr. - Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Randall Robinson - The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks

Afro-Europeans
Johny Pitts - Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Afro-Caribbeans/Afro-Latinos
Norman E. Whitten Jr. & Arlene Torres - Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean, Volumes 1 & 2
Eric Williams - From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno - Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century

General (growth/organization/history/empowerment) Reading/Pan-Africanist
Amos N. Wilson - Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
Kwame Anthony Appiah - Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
Ahmed Shawki - Black Liberation and Socialism
Robin Walker - When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations
C.L.R. James - A History of Pan-African Revolt
Amos N. Wilson - The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Bell hooks - Ain’t I a Woman?
Stokely Carmichael - Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Hugh Thomas - The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
Anthony W. Marx - Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
Bell hooks - Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Simone Schwarz-Bart - In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1-3
Ama Mazama - The Afrocentric Paradigm

African
Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's Ghost
Claudia Zaslavsky - Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures
Steve Biko - I Like What I Like: Selected Writings
John Reader - Africa: A Biography of the Continent
Roméo Dallaire - Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

If there’s something that should be here, let me know and I’ll add it. Admittedly lacking in East African reading materials beyond one of the encyclopedias I included (Africana)

@knova