Books like The crisis of the Negro intellectual by Harold Cruse

"In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black body and the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention to Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black."--BOOK JACKET.

An account of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott, detailing its origins, nonviolent strategies, community reprisals, and the successful desegregation of city buses.

Examines how entrenched discrimination patterns shape life for both African American and white residents in a specific Southern town.

bell hooks examines the marginal cultures of women, racial minorities, and the disenfranchised, critiquing racism, sexism, and mainstream media to inspire political engagement and transformative change.

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, FBI documents, etc.

Cornel West explores race, philosophy and politics in America, proposing strategies to strengthen black identity and ally with broader radical movements for a renewed liberal future.

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Black Metropolis traces the social, economic, and racial history of Chicago’s South Side black community from the 1840s through the 1930s, using WPA research to illuminate migration patterns, community structures, and race relations.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.