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A curated list of books, essays, and additional resources that promote Black self-determination.

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Igwebuike: An African Complementarity Philosophical Framework

Ikechukwu Anthony KANU

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Angela Davis

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Fear of Black Consciousness

Lewis Gordon

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Black Power:

Politics of Liberation

Charles V. Hamilton & Kwame Ture

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Assata:

An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

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We Real Cool

bell hooks

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All About Love

bell hooks

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Experiments with Imagining Otherwise

Lola Olufemi

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

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Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

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Break the Cycle

Mariel Buque

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Notebook of a Return to my Native Land

Aime Cesaire

Combahee River Collective Statement

Combahee River Collective

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

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Black Panther Party 10-Point Program

Black Panther Party

NAARC 10-Point Reparations Plan

National African American Reparations Commission

The Pieces I Am Documentary

Featuring Toni Morrison

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Black Dignity

Vincent W. Lloyd

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Paradise

Toni Morrison

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Otherwise Ferguson

Ashon Crawley

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

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Barracoon:

The Story of the Last Slave

Zora Neale Hurston

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Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

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Scenes of Subjugation

Saidiya Hartman

On Being Human as Praxis

Sylvia Winter

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Whiteness as Property

Cheryl L. Harris

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Audre Lorde

Queer Freedom:Black Sovereignty

Ana-Maurine Lara

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African Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Systems

Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu

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African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems

Toyin Falola, Anthony B. Pinn, & Monica R. Miller

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Yorùbá Metaphysics

Toyin Falola

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African Belief and Knowledge Systems: A Critical Perspective

Munyaradzi Mawere

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Opening to Spirit

Caroline Shola Arewa

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THE GOD IN US

Humelo Biko

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White Supremacy Culture

Tema Okun

Black Marxism

Cedric J. Robinson

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

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Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Audre Lorde

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All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson

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Eloquent Rage

Brittney Cooper

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BELLY OF THE BEAST

Da'Shaun L. Harrison

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