Where can i start with Black History?

[CASHAPP]

No problem homie. Check this out:

If you are looking to start in Africa, the BEST work you could ever start with for a real general and basic, but in depth understanding is the "African American Odyssey," by Darline Clark Hine (get the 5th edition, its the latest).

The best book on Africa and the real interactions with whites for the slave trade is Michael Gomez's "Exchanging Our Country Marks: The transformation of African identities in the colonial and the Antebellum South." U WILL LOVE THIS BOOK.

Also, Manning Marable has the best black history book on the second half of American history...its called "Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond America, 1945-2006 U WILL LOVE THIS BOOK TOO..VERY EASY TO READ AND NOT MUCH TECHNICAL JARGON

Anything by CLR james, especially the "Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution"...its a classic

And of course, the king of all black history books, the greatest of the great: W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America. That's a bit tougher to read though but it is the richest

U got any questions about these or would you like recommendations on a specific time period or place? I got them all, brother and hope I can help.

okay big elephant n the room.......when you bring up this Manning Marable book.....are we gonna downplay the book he wrote saying Malcom was bisexual...where did that shyt come from

 

[kp404]

okay big elephant n the room.......when you bring up this Manning Marable book.....are we gonna downplay the book he wrote saying Malcom was bisexual...where did that shyt come from

There was absolutely no reason on earth for that bullshyt Malcolm X book to exist...it has been universally panned and is not considered relevant in scholafrly circles...we do know that Marable DID NOT write it but had his research assistants writing most of it (he was very sick already and if you look at the writing closely, it is very simplistic, not like his other books we know he himself wrote).

Outside of the Malcolm X book which was a big clusterfukk of garbage, Marable has written some of the greatest works on the black experience ever, especially Race, Reform, and Rebellion.

 

[Supercoolmayo]

Forgot about this thread

 

[Larry Lobster]

Forgot about this thread

Me too

 

[GoldTeef]

bumping this thread because I cant find any other black history threads

here are some african history books if anyone is interested

General:

Graham Connah - African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective
Ann B. Stahl - African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction
Basil Davidson - African Civilization Revisited: From Antiquity to Modern Times
Toyin Falola - Africa, Vol.1: African History Before 1885
Elizabeth Isichei - A History of African Societies to 1870
Basil Davidson - The Lost Cities of Africa
Robert O. Collins - Documents from the African Past
Richard Hull - African Cities and Towns before the European Conquest
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch - The History Of African Cities South Of The Sahara
The Cambridge History of Africa series
UNESCO General History of Africa series

West Africa:

Jacob F. Ade Ajayi, Michael Crowder - History of West Africa, Vol. 1 & 2
Basil Davidson - A History of West Africa, 1000-1800
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong - Themes in West Africa's History
Adu Boahen, Jacob F. Ade Ajayi - Topics in West African History
Robert O. Collins - Western African History
Nehemia Levtzion - Ancient Ghana and Mali
J. F. P. Hopkins, Nehemia Levtzion - Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
Christopher Wise - Timbuktu Chronicles 1493-1599, Ta'rikh al Fattash
John O. Hunwick - Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'Di's Ta'Rikh Al-Sudan Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
E.W. Bovill - The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
Ivor Wilks - Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante
Robin Law - The Oyo Empire
A.F.C. Ryder - Benin and the Europeans
Peter M. Roese, Dmitri M. Bondarenko - A Popular History of Benin

Central Africa:

Jan Vansina - Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa
Jan Vansina - Kingdoms of the Savanna
Jan Vansina - How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600
Anne Hilton - The Kingdom of Kongo
Robert O. Collins - Central and South African History

East Africa:

D.W. Phillipson - Ancient Ethiopia: Aksum, Its Predecessors and Successors
D.W. Phillipson - Foundations of an African Civilisation

Sudan (although saharan, rather than "subsaharan" Africa):

Timothy Kendall - Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500-1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire
Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Sue D'Auria, Salima Ikram - Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile
David Edwards - The Nubian Past
Laszlo Torok - The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization
David O'Connor - Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa
Derek Welsby - Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Nile

 

[Forlife44]

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