prof. James Smalls.
Some Legit Black Scholars???
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I edited my original list (to take out less legitimate scholars like Thomas Sowell)
But I would add in: Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor - Race For Profit is a book that every Black American should read, because it concerns daily Black life; Dorothy E. Roberts, Killing The Black Body is one of the most important works of history and sociology on the Black legal and medical experience here in the U.S. (Harriet Washington's Medical Apartheid also falls into this category); Saidiya Hartman and her book Scenes of Subjection, for a much more fundamental and philosophical understanding of the brutality of chattel slavery; Robin D.G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe for the most robust writing I've yet experienced on the Black labor struggle in the South and the USSR, and Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism for a history of the Black radical tradition.
Alongside the original people I put in, I would add Gerald Horne, Khalil G. Muhammad, Jared Ball, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Cheryl I. Harris, Achille Mbembe, Frank B. Wilderson, and Jared Sexton.
But I would add in: Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor - Race For Profit is a book that every Black American should read, because it concerns daily Black life; Dorothy E. Roberts, Killing The Black Body is one of the most important works of history and sociology on the Black legal and medical experience here in the U.S. (Harriet Washington's Medical Apartheid also falls into this category); Saidiya Hartman and her book Scenes of Subjection, for a much more fundamental and philosophical understanding of the brutality of chattel slavery; Robin D.G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe for the most robust writing I've yet experienced on the Black labor struggle in the South and the USSR, and Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism for a history of the Black radical tradition.
Alongside the original people I put in, I would add Gerald Horne, Khalil G. Muhammad, Jared Ball, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Cheryl I. Harris, Achille Mbembe, Frank B. Wilderson, and Jared Sexton.
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Booker T Washington..
Noble Drew Ali
Duse Mohammed Ali
Ras Tafari Makonnen
Frederick Douglas
Ida B Wells
Harriet Tubman...claim to fame - freed many many slaves
James Forten
Chancellor Williams
Frantz Fanon
Aime Cesaire
William Henry West ...Claim to fame - arresting a sitting POTUS
John Horse...claim to fame - defeated the US army on US soil.
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Ralph Bunche
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Dutty Boukman or BookMan(Koran) Dutty claim to fame - started the Haitian Revolution and coined the phrase" fyah bun...etc"
Noble Drew Ali
Duse Mohammed Ali
Ras Tafari Makonnen
Frederick Douglas
Ida B Wells
Harriet Tubman...claim to fame - freed many many slaves
James Forten
Chancellor Williams
Frantz Fanon
Aime Cesaire
William Henry West ...Claim to fame - arresting a sitting POTUS
John Horse...claim to fame - defeated the US army on US soil.
Thurgood Marshall
Ralph Bunche
Huey p Newton
Dutty Boukman or BookMan(Koran) Dutty claim to fame - started the Haitian Revolution and coined the phrase" fyah bun...etc"
I wasn't hit to Wilderson III at this time, but I've read Afropessimsim and Red, White and Black and they're fantastic.Sandy Darity at Duke and Darrick Hamilton at The New School are doing some of the most important research on black political economy
Braykeshia Samms and Cherrie Bucknor do good economics stuff as well
As far as critique, check Adolph Reed at UPenn, Michael Dawson at U Chicago, Andra Gillespie at Emory and J Philip Thompson at MIT, and the young nikka R.L Stephens who been setting the internet ablaze with every essay
Also check out Wendi Muse. She's on twitter and does good work on the history of PoC leftist movements
Definitely agree about occasionally disagreeing with them. Sexton in Amalgamation Schemes was also fantastic.
Wendi Muse and Sandy Darrity are also fantastic. I worked for Darrick Hamilton as a grad student, he's brilliant.