Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

by Michael Harriot

TEN ESSENTIAL BOOKS Lerone Bennett. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619–1962. Eastford, CT: Martino Fine Books, 2016. Keisha N. Blain, Ibram X. Kendi, eds. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019. New York: Random House, 2021. Frantz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: PublicAffairs, 2016. Middleton A. Harris, Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, Ernest Smith. The Black Book. New York: Random House, 2019. Ivan Van Sertima. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America. New York: Random House, 2003. Gerald Horne. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2018. John Hope Franklin. Reconstruction after the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Ronald W. Waters. Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Rayford W. Logan. The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901. New York: Dial Press, 1954.