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Dr. Gerald Horne bibliography

2009-12-31T22:32:00.000-05:00

{Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya (2009)}

Dr. Gerald Horne is certainly one of our most important scholars today, pioneering scholarly research in subject areas relevant to African folk that are otherwise neglected. Per Dr. Greg Carr's instruction to "read everything by Gerald Horne", this post will serve as a living bibliography of his works for those who should need it (the brother has written about a million books).

{W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (2009)}

{Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica (2009)}

{The Color of Fascism: Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States (2009)}

{Blows against Empire: U.S. Imperialism in Crisis (2008)}

{The End of Empires: African Americans and India (2008)}

{Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies (2007)}

{The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (2007)}

{The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War (2007)}

{The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten (2006)}

{Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (2005)}

{Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (2005)}

{Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois (2002)}

{Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds and Trade Unionists (2001)}

{From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980 (2000)}

{Powell V. Alabama: The Scottsboro Boys and American Justice (1997)}

{Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s (1997)}

{Testaments of Courage (1995)}

{Race for the Planet: The U.S. and the New World Order (1994)}

{Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party (1994)}

{Reversing Discrimination: The Case For Affirmative Action (1992)}

{Studies In Black: Progressive Views and Reviews of the African-American Experience (1992)}

{Communist Front?: The Civil Rights Congress, 1946-1956 (1988)}

{Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American response to the Cold War (1986)}

Dr. Greg Carr's Recommended Reading (#001)

2009-12-31T18:04:00.002-05:00

{Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson}

Howard University Afro-American Studies Chairman Dr. Greg Carr is one of the most important living teachers in America. I am extremely excited to share this first collection of his recommended titles with you. It is titled "Dr. Greg Carr's Recommended Reading (#001)" because my expectation is that there will be more to come. Also, a complete bibliography of Dr. Gerald Horne's works will soon follow; Dr Carr recommended "everything by Gerald Horne", but there is so much that it deserves its own posting. I would also like to consider compiling similar personalized reading lists from other master teachers, so if you have anyone in mind please drop a comment. Thank you.

{Black Movements in America by Cedric Robinson}

{Eloquence of the Scribes: A Memoir on the Sources and Resources of African Literature by Ayi Kwei Armah}

{Mbongi: An African Traditional Political Institution by K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau}

{Yurungu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behaviour by Marimba Ani}

{Black Is A Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle For Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh}

"The Rat That Got Away" [book review]

2009-08-20T17:49:00.005-04:00

A new book by Dr. Mark Naison and Allen Jones on coming of age in the South Bronx during the 1950's and 1960's. The memoir is the first full-length book to originate from the Bronx African-American History Project.

{liberatormagazine.com feature}

A Public View of a Bronx Life: "The Rat That Got Away" [link]

“...I stopped by the East Side Center to let PJ know how I was doing, and during the conversation he said to me. ‘I know you don’t tell those white folks where you are from.’”

“Of course, he was wrong about that, but his comment reinforced something I already knew instinctively: how important it is to be proud of where I come from. A lot of black people who cut ties with their past to be accepted in the white world end up belonging nowhere. Though I was no historian, I was becoming a pretty good student of history, and I concluded that without a sense of your past, you can lose yourself. Once I became conscious of this fact, I decided to claim everything I did, for better or for worse, and keep in touch with my street side, even when I was hanging with the rich and famous.

“My conversation with PJ…helped me understand who I was.”
~Allen Jones

Allen Jones’ story is the type of inspirational, “coming of age” account that inner-city teachers, youth workers, and scholars clamor for. From growing up poor in the South Bronx’s Paterson housing projects, Jones finds economic and social success in Europe. A well-known New York City schoolboy street basketball standout, in adulthood he transitions into an accomplished German banker. And after several years as a local drug dealer, and participating in the emerging gangster culture of the late 1960’s, Allen shifts his attention back to the moral foundations that were central to his childhood: family and church. The events of Allen Jones’ life point to redemptive possibilities that can be achieved in spite of early life mistakes and obstacles. In this way, knowing who he is, can help today’s young people know who they can be.

But the totality of Jones’ years is more than a collection of life lessons which end result is an interesting memoir and a cautionary tale. The Rat That Got Away provides a narrative with a richer historical lens, and a deeper social meaning than pure “factoids” can provide. Emanating from the Bronx African American History Project's oral history research, Naison and Jones provide an account which is historically true but also intensely personal. The elements that make his memoir so powerful are the poignancy of his experiences and the complexity of his journey. What we learn about the South Bronx and its residents is powerful.

Allen Jones’ life in the projects dramatically alters the standard perception of public housing. The projects have become synonymous with the concept of urban decay, and its residents with the underclass—with both placing the blame on the people in public housing for the literal and figurative deterioration of its space into “ghettos.” The South Bronx, who according to Jill Jonnes’ South Bronx, Rising has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States of America, becomes emblematic of this plight.

The Rat That Got Away successfully resists and complicates that stereotype. Jones’ tells readers of a time when Patterson Projects was a site where families believed they could thrive. The Patterson Community Center, local churches, public schools, and the Police Athletic League ran an assortment of programs that sent kids like Jones “home exhausted” and without “the energy to get into trouble.” A group of mentors and professionals all ran these centers and programs. Most importantly, Jones tells us how these people and institutions were of and for the community; all located either inside or in close proximity to the housing projects, and ran by local residents.

The memoir’s valuable contribution is its insight on how neighborhoods and communities change. Jones life trajectory brings readers through the complicated and tumultuous decade of the 1960’s. Chapters like “The Summer of Unrest: 1964” and “The Streets are Alive: Summer of ‘65” allude to a well-documented time of strife and turmoil the country endured, and Jones’ story tells us how the hardships of the Vietnam War and proliferation of heroin use and sale are among the most devastating hits New York City’s Black and Latino communities take. The 70’s were no different, if not more extreme, as Jones narrates the tragic toll “Bitch Queen Heroin” takes on places like Patterson; and about people being “unable to resist the forces that were tearing apart black neighborhoods in the 70’s.” Most sharp is his observation on the matter: “America was killing us, but we were also killing each other.” Allen’s stories of selling and using drugs attest to this.

But it is here where the book’s strength emanates: the social commentary and personal reflection that accompanies the timeline. Allen Jones provides a memoir which speaks to the particular world-view, political consciousness, and life outlook of a Black man who lived through one of America’s most significant periods. After traveling through several European countries as a professional basketball player, Jones sees the place race occupies in other social environments. Upon his return, he juxtaposes his U.S. life with his Europe experiences, and with brutal honesty shares his thoughts:

“The home I was returning to had treated me, along with all my black brothers and sisters, both living and dead, like slaves, outlaws, second-class citizens, and worse. I knew that part of the reason for this was the history of our country. America had been founded by brutal, self-serving men who were concerned only about gaining wealth and didn’t care how they did it. They killed the Indians for their land and enslaved Africans to help them build their empire, and... I was seeing the long-term effects of what they did…Indians were not even seen in most American cities, and the vast majority of black people, when they were working at all, were doing the lowest-paying jobs. Racism was a way of life in America.”

This is an exemplar of The Rat That Got Away’s shining light: Jones' candor.

This frankness also unveils some of Jones’ shortcomings. When forced to recount his criminal endeavors into drug selling, robbery, and mugging, the author provides detailed reports of his exploits; and we the readers learn of a drug and crime culture very different from that which pervades every aspect of media today. Yet while being so giving of the details to his criminal activity (as should be expected in any memoir building itself as “honest”), Jones does not give us a full account of his personal decision-making process. He recounts how in his childhood peer pressure and the desire to be accepted by older “down brothers” pushed him to mischief and petty crimes. But those choices, and the serious ones that follow, are often clouded and subverted by claims of a “street code:”

“While I can’t defend my actions from that point, I can try to explain what was behind them. My way of thinking had become shaped completely by the street. I knew the rules I was living by and had gotten to the point where I didn’t question them. I knew that Gotham might seem like a high place, but it can become very small when you owe someone money on the streets. And I knew the maxim: ‘You pay or you die.’”

Does the way of the street engulf and envelope a person’s cognitive processes to the point where nothing outside exist? For those who have been completely immersed, bred, and nurtured in this lifestyle, perhaps. But for those, like Allen Jones, who’s frame of reference goes beyond this, and is steeped in parents, Christianity, and a family that taught him “good table manners and basic social graces,” the code of the street explanations are not enough. Much like Malcolm does in his autobiography, or Richard Wright’s depicts through Bigger in Native Son, the decision making process for Black men and their wrong choices have a greater context.

This is where we as scholars, social workers, community organizers, conscientious citizens, and all the sort need to incorporate The Rat That Got Away into our work. The parallels between what faced Allen Jones then and what faces young, poor people of color today are too strikingly similar. How do we cultivate young athletes beyond their physical activities, while also preparing them for their academic and social responsibilities? Can community institutions that train and employ its residents help keep a generation of young people on task and pointed towards success? How can we create organizations and maintain networks that provide assistance, mentorship, and guidance even when adolescents and teenagers stray down the wrong path? And are the prospects for success so dire for Blacks in our current urban landscape that leaving the community where you are from is the only option for success? This memoir gives plenty of fodder for us to delve into these profoundly important and pressing questions.

For these issues are not just important for those looking to “fix the South Bronx.” They are crucial for the creation of a more just, equitable society. Jones’ life gives testament to the redeeming power that determination, perseverance, and repentance can play in navigating through impoverished circumstances; and to the quite vital role that family, mentors, and community institutions play in shaping the lives of young Blacks. But his remarkable individual story is the impetus for questioning why such extraordinary feats are needed for not just success, but for survival; and not for just anybody, but for our society’s most racialized, stigmatized, and marginalized. The Rat That Got Away forces us to think about how to make this American society a more just place.

Bookworms Unite! [Land + Nature]

2009-07-23T11:08:00.005-04:00

CURRENTLY reading (or re-reading) any books that you think are worth sharing? Or, do you have a list of books that you want to read but haven't gotten around to reading yet? Unite with us. Here are the rules:

1) We've decided to make our lists theme oriented to help us organize our reading a bit better. So please post only titles that fit into this edition's theme of Land + Nature. (please suggest some future themes in the comments)

2) Leave up to 5 titles that you are planning to read soon, or are currently reading in the comments so we can add them to our list.

3) Please post your titles listing the author above the title AND if you list multiple titles by the same author, then please list them together under the author's name. Titles not in this format may be ignored.

Free books.

2009-04-07T19:50:00.010-04:00

Why would I do such a thing?

Because I did it before and it was fun.

Because we're in a recession. (That's my answer for everything now.)

Because I'm spring cleaning and I see that I have a metric ton of books so I don't have a problem with letting some of them go.

Because doing something nice for other people is a great constructive pick-me-up.

Because isn't it the best when you get something in the mail that's not a bill?

Email me for a list of what's available: visualart (at) liberatormagazine (dot) com.

Bookworms Unite! 006

2008-12-31T13:37:00.004-05:00

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism {film}

2008-11-07T13:44:00.007-05:00

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (read/download)

From the author:
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.

The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas though our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. [naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-book]

Bookworms Unite! 005

2008-10-31T14:59:00.004-04:00

CURRENTLY reading (or re-reading) any books that you think are worth sharing? Or, do you have a list of books that you want to read but haven't gotten around to reading yet? Leave the titles of books you are planning to read soon, or are currently reading in the comments and we compile and post new lists regularly. Please do not list your favorite books or books that are simply in your collection. We don't care for bragging. Please ONLY list books you are reading or planing to read soon.

Thanks to those who suggested these titles in the comments of the last Bookworms Unite! (please post your titles in the format below -- author above title AND if you list multiple titles by the same author then list them together under the author's name, titles not in this format will be ignored -- thanks.)

Click this to follow the history of the Bookworms Unite series:

Bookworms Unite! 005
Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman
Skinny Bitch

James Loewen
Lies Across America

Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Dear Senator

Amy and David Goodman
Standing up to the Madness

Matt Taibbi
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

William Jelani Cobb
The Devil and Dave Chappelle

Toni Mcgee Causey
Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day
Bobbie Faye's (kinda, sorta, not really) Family Jewels

Houston Baker
Betrayal

Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower

Ralph Ellison
Shadow and Act

Richard Wright
Black Power
The Outsider

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Haiti, The Breached Citadel

Junot Diaz
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying

Alec Soth
Sleeping by the Mississippi

Robert Frank
The Americans

Rose Whaley
The Book Without a Name: You Read It, You Name It

Dr. Llaila O. Afrika
African Holistic Health

Dr. Andrea D. Sullivan
A Path to Healing

John Updike
Rabbit

Nelson Algren
Chicago, City on the Make

Peter Hobbs
The Short Day Dying

Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions

Guy Debord
Society of the Spectacle

Bookworms Unite! 004

2008-07-09T17:51:00.008-04:00

Note: Someone please list some more lighthearted books this time! lol. There any good Science (or other) Fiction out there?

CURRENTLY reading (or re-reading) any books that you think are worth sharing? Or, do you have a list of books that you want to read but haven't gotten around to reading yet? Leave the titles of books you are planning to read soon, or are currently reading in the comments and we compile and post new lists regularly. Please do not list your favorite books or books that are simply in your collection. We don't care for bragging. Please ONLY list books you are reading or planing to read soon.

Thanks to those who suggested these titles in the comments of the last Bookworms Unite! (please post your titles in the format below -- author above title AND if you list multiple titles by the same author then list them together under the author's name, titles not in this format will be ignored -- thanks.)

Click this to follow the history of the Bookworms Unite series:

Bookworms Unite! 004
Abu-Jaber, Diana.
Crescent

Salahuddin Ahmed
A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Lt. Gen. A.I. Akram
The Sword of Allah

Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image

Michael Bennet and Vanessa D. Dickerson, ed.
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-representations By African American Women

Brother G.
Shades of Memnon. Book II: Ra Force Rising

Georg Buhler, trans.
The Laws of Manu

Edward Bruce Bynum
The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology

Jacob H. Carruthers
The Irritated Genie: an essay on the Haitian Revolution

Stephen L. Carter
The Emperor of Ocean Park

Pearl Cleage
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

H.A.L. Craig
Bilal

Basil Davidson
The Lost Cities of Africa

James T. Haley
Afro-American Encyclopedia: Or, the Thoughts, Doings, And Saying of the Race

J.C. DeGraft-Johnson
African Glory

Hehi Metu Ra Enkamit
African Names: The Anciet Eyptian Keys to Unlocking Your Power and Destiny

Michael A. Gomez
Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identites in the Colinal And Antebelleum South

Lawrence Otis Graham
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class

Pamela Thomas-Graham
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery

Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

Middleton Harris, et. al.
The Black Book

Alexander Heidel
The Babylonian Genesis

Robert G. Henricks, trans.
Lao-Tzu’s the Te-Tao Ching

Asa G. Hilliard (Nana Baffour Amankwatia II)
The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization

Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark
Black Masters: Free Families of Color in the Old South

Okeyo A. Jumal
Spiritual Shackles

William Loren Katz
Black Women Of the Old West
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story

James Mellon, ed.
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember

Patrick Minges
Black Indian Slave Narratives

Wade W. Nobles
Seeking the Sakhu

Theophile Obenga
Origine Commune De L’Egyptien Ancien
Du Copte Et Des Langues Negro-Africaines Modernes
Readings in Precolonial Central Africa

Catherine Peck, ed.
A Treasury of North-American Folk Tales

William D. Piersen
Black Legacy: America’s Hidden Heritage

Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts in Modern Senegal

Randall Robinson
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
The Art of Thinking: A Guide to Critical and Creative Thought

Columbus Salley
The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential African-Americans Past and Present

Saint Solomon
Uncle Sams Nieces and Nephews

S.R. Sarai
David

S.R. Sarai
Choosing Deceit

Dempsey J. Travis
An Autobiography of BLACK Chicago

Renita J. Weems
Battered Love: Marriage, Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors

Edward Christopher Williams
When Washington Was In Vogue

Bookworms Unite! 003

2008-05-13T14:58:00.005-04:00

Bookworms Unite! 002

2008-04-12T01:09:00.010-04:00

CURRENTLY reading any books that you think are worth sharing? Or, do you have a list of books that you want to read but haven't gotten around to reading yet? Leave the titles of books you are planning to read soon, or are currently reading in the comments and we can compile and post new lists regularly. Follow the history of the Bookworms Unite series by clicking on the "Bookworms Unite" label at the end of this post. Thanks to those who suggested these titles in the comments of the last Bookworms Unite! (please post your titles in the format below -- author above title -- thanks.)

Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O
Wizard Of The Crow

Howard Thurman
The Search For Common Ground

Jalal Toufic
Forthcoming

Steve Pinker
The Language Insticnt

Edward P. Jones
The Known World

Phaidon Press
Stan Douglas (artist book)

Ellen Lupton
Thinking with Type

Ron Eglash
African Fractals

R.M. Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet

Henry Box Brown
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

John Henrik Clarke
Harlem, USA

Kwame Ture
Ready for Revolution

Ay Kwei Armah
Eloquence of the Scribes

Hugh Masekela
Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela

Charles Mingus
Beneath the Under Dog

Opal Palmer Adisa
It Begins with Tears

Claude Mckay
Home to Harlem

C.L.R. James
Minty Alley

Winnie Mandela
Part of My Soul Went With Him

Bookworms Unite! 001

2008-03-07T22:04:00.010-05:00

Reading any books that you think are worth sharing? Or, do you have a list of books that you want to read but haven't gotten around to reading yet? I dug this post idea up from the forum. Thought it would be worth a shot to try and revive the concept of sharing what we're reading, and what we are planning to read, with each other. These books below are not all me, rather a compilation of all the "want to read soon" titles folks shared in the old post. Leave the titles of books you are planning to read soon, or have already read and recommend, in the comments and we can compile and post new lists regularly.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Nelson Mandela
Long Walk To Freedom

Sterling Stuckey
Slave Culture

W.E.B. DuBois
The Gift of Black Folk
The Comet
Black Reconstruction
The Education of the Negro: Ten Critiques
W.E.B. DuBois Speaks

John T. McCartney
Black Power Ideologies

Malidoma Patrice Some
The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Kwame Nkrumah
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah

Martin Carnoy and Derek Chearer
Economic Democracy

Ayi Kwei Armah
The Healers

Jacob Carruthers
MDW NTR: Divine Speech
Deep Thought From The Time of tile Pharaohs to tile Present

Kenneth King
Pan Africanism and Education

Asa G. Hilliard III
SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind

James Anderson
The Education of Blacks in the South: 1860-1935

Horace Mann Bond
The Orions of Black Scholars

Ellis Saad
The Social History of Timbuktu

Harold Cruse
Crisis of The Negro Intellectual

Horace Campbell
Rasta and Resistance

Robin Kelley
Race Rebels

John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Michael Eric Dyson
I May Not Get There With You

Jacob Carruthers
Intellectual Warfare

Lerone Bennett
Before The Mayflower

Hollis Lynch
Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan Negro Patriot

Mark Mathabane
Kaffir Boy

James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation

Stokley Charmichael/Kwame Ture
Ready For Revolution: The Autobiography Of Stokley Charmichael

Kodwo Eshun
More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction

Paul Gilroy
Between Camps: Nations, Culture and the Allure of Race
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

John F. Szwed
Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra

Martin Bernal
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization

Mark Dery
Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture

Martin R. Delany
Blake, or the huts of America

Sutton E. Griggs
Imperium in Imperio

Duke Ellington
The Race for Space

George Schuyler
Black No More
Black Empire

Samuel R. Delany
Dark Reflections
The Jewels of Aptor
Babel 17
Dhalgren

Octavia E. Butler
"Patternmaster", 1976
"Kindred", 1979
"Wildseed", 1980
"Parable of the Sower", 1993

Charles R. Saunders
"Imaro", 1981
"Imaro II: The Quest for Cush", 1984
"Imaro III: The Trail of Bohu", 1985

Virginia Hamilton
"Justice and her Brothers", 1978
"Dustland", 1980
"The Gathering", 1981
"People Could Fly: American Black Folktales", 1985

Sheree Renee Thomas
"A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora", 2000
"Reading the Bones", 2004

L. A. Banks
"Minion", 2003
"The Awakening", 2004
"The Hunted", 2004
"The Bitten", 2005
"The Forbidden", 2005

Brandon Massey
"Thunderland", 2001
"Dark Corner", 2004

Robert Heinlein
“Farnham’s Freehold”