a LIBERATION SYLLABUS

ROOTS

• Africa. The Definitive Visual History of a Continent

• A History of Africa: Combined Edition

• Great Kingdoms of Africa

• African Spirituality for Beginners

• The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts

• Matrix of African Proverbs: The Ethical and Spiritual Blueprint for True Civilization

REVOLUTIONS

• The Middle Passage

• The Coming

• Wake. The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

• Prophet – The Story of Nat Turner

• Black History and African American Legacy. The Hidden Story of Resistance and A Deep Exploration of Slave Revolts

• Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery

• Barracoon. The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”.

• Black AF History. The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

• From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans

• David Walker’s The Appeal

• Black Freethinkers. A History of African American Secularism

• Born in Blackness. Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

• The Black Book

• Four Hundred Souls. A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

MOVEMENTS

• My Face Is Black Is True Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

• Black Reconstruction in America

• Black Marxism. Making of the Black Radical Tradition

• The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition

• Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

• The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

• Stride Toward FREEDOM: The Montgomery Story

• Daybreak of Freedom. The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Making of Black Revolutionaries

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

• Up South

• Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

• Black against Empire. The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

• Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

• History Teaches Us to Resist. How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

• Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle

• SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

• This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed. How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

• The Making of Black Lives Matter

• From Here to Equality. Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

• The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice

STORIES

• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker

• Angela Davis: An Autobiography

• Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

• Assata: An Autobiography

• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

• Nigger. An Autobiography. by Dick Gregory

• To Praise Our Bridges. an autobiography. Mrs. Fanny Lou Hamer

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• Incidents of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

• Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Here I Stand by Paul Robeson

• Black Boy by Richard Wright

• Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

• Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston

FUTURISMS

• The Afrofuturist Evolution. Creative Paths to Self-Discovery

• Imagination: A Manifesto

• On Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage”

• Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring calls for an ocean memorial to slavery

• Toward a Third Reconstruction

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

• Defend / Defund: A Visual History of Organizing Against the Police

• African Nations Push For Reparations For Victims Of Colonialism

• Liberation Stories. Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements

• Design Against Racism. Creating Work That Transforms