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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 26 reviews
Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc
Picador, 2005
Quilting threads of Hip Hop
+ EXCELLENT NARRATIVE
+ Killer, meng
+ a complete history
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the ... 38 reviews
Harriet A. Washington
Harlem Moon, 2008
It's always useful to be reminded...
+ What I Didn't Know
+ Interesting book,
+ Painful Truth
+ Presumed Consent - De Corpe Gettin' de Shaft - Grave Robbing!
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Even the Rat Was White: A Historical View of Psychology (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition) (2nd Edition) (Allyn ...72 reviews
Robert V. Guthrie
Allyn & Bacon, 2003
Even The Rat Was White
+ Even the Rat Was white A historical View of Psychology - Synopsis
+ Even the Rat Was White
+ Even the Rat Was White: A Brief Review
+ Even the Rat Was White
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What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library3 reviews
What We Want What We Believe: Black Panther Party
Eclectic DVD Dist., 2006
Black Panthers, surprise support.
+ On Developing Revolutionary Consciousness
+ A great wealth of invaluable historic footage
I was surprised that hippie types videotaped the Black Panthers. I was surprised that they got a lot of their funding from the middle class liberal white people.
I was surprised to know that they were trying to address the needs of all oppressed people.
It is no wonder the govertment agencies ...
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 19 reviews
Joan Morgan
Simon & Schuster, 2000
It's like this book was written just for me!
+ GREAT
+ Understanding Chickenhead Speak
+ THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL BLACK WOMEN
+ Leslie's "Chickenhead" Review
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500 Years Later: Directors Cut9 reviews
Dr. Kimani Nehusi, Molefi Kete Asante
Halaqah Media Films, 2006
500 years later
+ Good Product..for African American or Pan-African prospective
+ 500 years to the present
+ 500 Years Later
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 (America in the King Years)32 reviews
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Impossible not to be a letdown
+ Branch's Pillar of Fire
+ The Angle of Moment
+ Branch's Trilogy
+ Keeps the Fire Aflame...Pillared Story of the Shaping of America
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela130 reviews
Nelson Mandela
Back Bay Books, 1995
Outstanding Book....Great Inspiration!
+ "Study history or it will repeat itself"
+ A required read for anyone going to South Africa
+ A great look into a class act of a human being,
+ great men can write!
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X2 reviews
Malcolm X
Penguin Books Ltd, 1973
Malcolm X
This is an excellent source for material about the civil rights movement. It is the experiences of a Black Muslim in a White world. I recommend this book for Junior and Senior High School students.
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Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.)59 reviews
Assata Shakur
Lawrence Hill Books, 2001
If you are into racism, women issues and simple reading, this book if for you!
+ Beautifully Difficult
+ A MUST-READ for Everyone
+ Inspirational Revolutionary
+ Eyes opening...
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years)37 reviews
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 1989
Moving storytelling
+ Undiscovered Country
+ Amazingly Woven Detail
+ Indispensable
+ Excellent and Informative
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)32 reviews
Taylor Branch
Simon & Schuster, 2007
must read for all americans
+ Thank you, J. Edgar
+ Death & Transfiguration
+ Must read for students if the civil rights movement
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Women, Race, & Class13 reviews
Angela Y. Davis
Vintage, 1983
Great Read
+ WOMEN OF POWER
+ The book is great!
+ The Gift of Intelligence
+ women, race, and class
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Black Like Me154 reviews
John Howard Griffin
NAL Trade, 2003
Constructing Race, the artifice of being Other
+ proof that something relatively minor can pack a punch
+ Black like me: One of the best books I have ever read
+ Black Like Me
+ BLACK LIKE ME by John Howard Griffin
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Taking the Train2 reviews
Joe Austin
Columbia University Press, 2001
An important contribution
For anyone who is seriously interested in all aspects of the Graffiti Culture, Joe Austin pulls it all together in this scholarly, but easily readable, excellently researched new book. The author has spent the necessary time to know many of the important writers, to review the major material ...
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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa98 reviews
Mark Mathabane
Free Press, 1998
outstanding triumph
+ An enlightening look into the life of a young man in Apartheid South Africa
+ Kaffir Boy: A Powerful Voice
+ A Must read
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Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement3 reviews
S. Craig Watkins
Beacon Press, 2006
Important for Scholars of Hip Hop Culture
+ Hip-Hop Lovers Must Read!
+ The voice behind hip hop
An important discussion of the history and meaning of hip hop music and culture. Inspires academics to "get it right". Read this, watch documentaries "Style Wars" and "RIZE" and I promise you'll be throwing dance parties in your living room and writing operational definitions for "Bling".
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Hip Hop America31 reviews
Nelson George
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Excellent Overview
+ excellent overview & inclusion of broader culteral impact but don't expect exhaustive material on all the big players
+ STILL USEFUL
+ Especially good on the early days of hip hop
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (South End Press Classics Series)10 reviews
bell hooks
South End Press, 2005
A Must for all Black Women
+ Sisters of the yam
+ hooks' writes with honesty and courage!
This book is truly inspiring. It is honest and forthright about the problems of black women the world over. It should be a recommended text for women's studies and certainly for young women today who have never experienced the pain of abuse. I found the experience of reading this book very ...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?7 reviews
Angela Y. Davis
Open Media, 2003
Why Prisons Aren't About Justice
+ Literature Working on the Prison System
+ A Brilliantly Reasoned Critique of the American Prison System
+ Economics and Racism combine to create our broken prisons
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