Curated Book Lists

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All the books below are quoted, referenced and synthesized for Reawakening the Genius Minds Products. It is extremely important to develop mastery in a specific area by reading as much as possible on that topic. The next step is using this mastery to uplift and empower our people. Below we have organized a variety of book lists on specific topics. If you are interested in receiving a monthly subscription with curated Black Book Lists or requesting a specialized list please contact us.

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⌘The Falsfication of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy

⌘Afrikan Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism

⌘Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: It's Remediation and Prevention

⌘Issues of Manhood in Black and White: An Inclusive Look Into Masculinity and the Societal Definition of Afrikan Man

⌘The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child

⌘Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century

⌘Awakening the Natural Genius in Black Children

⌘The Psychology of Self Hatred and Self-Defeat: Towards a Reclamation of the Afrikan Mind (Not Shown)

Books on the History of Black People’s need for Guns

 ☥Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms by Nicholas Johnson

☥Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams

☥We Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Umoja

☥The Deacons for Defense by Lance Hill

☥Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy T. Tyson

☥White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery

☥When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Culture by Sheila Smith Mckoy

☥This Non-Violence Stuff Will Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb

Books on Nat Turner

⌘Nat Turner: Black Americans of Achievement Series by Coretta Scott King

⌘Nat Turner: Slave Rebellion in History and Memory by Kenneth S. Greenburg

⌘Nat Turner: Rebel Slave by Ann Marie Hendrickson

⌘The Original Confessions of Nat Turner Taken and Edited by Thomas R. Grey 1831 by H. Khalif Khalifah and Nadirah U. Khalifah

⌘Nat Turner Slave Rebellion Comic Book

⌘The Second Crucifixiion of Nat Turner by John Henrik Clarke

⌘There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by Vincent Harding

⌘The Nat Turner ?Quiz Book? by H. Khalif Khalifah

⌘Black Rebellion: Eye Witness Accounts of Major Slave Rebellions by Sujan Dass

Books on Preparedness

☥The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood

☥SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any climate, on land or sea by John "Lofty" Wiseman

☥Medicinal Plants of North America by Jim Meunick

☥When All Hell Breaks Loose: How to Survive When Disaster Strikes by Cody Lundin

☥Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and their Families by Aton Edwards

☥Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

☥Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

☥98.6 The art of Keeping Your Ass Alive: How to Survive Fear, Panic, and the Biggest Outdoor Killers by Cody Lundin

☥Shoestring Survivalism: How to Prepare for Bad Times on a Budget by Andy James

☥Cover Your Tracks without Changing Your Identity: How to Disappear When You Don't Want to Be Found by B. Wilson

☥Lucifer's Hammer by Marc Vietor and Larry Niven

☥Urban Survival Guide: Learn the Secrets of Urban Survival To Keep You Alive After Manmade Disasters and Breakdowns in Civil Disorder by David Morris

☥Ragnar's Urban Survival Guide: A Hard Time Guide to staying Alive in the City by Ragnar Benson

☥The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why by Amanda Ripley

☥How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier

☥Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America by Mark Ehrman

“if you educate a woman you educate a NATION” SPecialized Curation FOR and BY A Black WOman

❂The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships by Sobonfu Some

❂Yurugu: An Afrikan-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani

❂The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing

❂Assata: An Autiobiography by Assata Shakur

❂Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair by Ayana D. Byrd & Lori L Tharps

❂By Any Greens Necessary: A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Loog Phat by Tracye Lynn McQuirter

❂Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy by Maggie Anderson

❂Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington

❂Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films Donald Bogle

❂The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

❂The Wake of the Wind by J. California Copper

❂Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pro-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Garvey no. 1, Or a tale of Two Amies by Tony Martin

 

Hand to Hand combat and dealing with violence

⌘Never Unarmed: The Afrikan Warrior Guide To Improvised Weapons by Balogun Ojetade

⌘The Fighter's Mind" Inside the Mental Game by Sam Sheridan

⌘Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons: A Down and Dirty Book on Streetfighting and Survival by Marc "Animal" MacYoung

⌘Women's Personal Safety 101 by Samuel Scott

⌘100 Deadly Skills: The Seal Operative's Guide in Eluding, Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation by Clint Emerson

⌘How To Be Your Own Bodyguard by Nick Hughes

⌘The Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know About Fighting by Lawrence A. Kane

⌘A Guide to Improvised Weaponry: How to Protect Yourself with Whatever You've Got  by Terry Schappert

⌘Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected by Rory Miller

⌘Meditations on Violence: A Comparative of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence by Rory Miller

⌘Principle-Based Instruction for Self-Defense by Rory Miller

⌘Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practical Skills by Rory Miller

⌘1001 Street Fighting Secrets: The Principles of Contemporary Fighting Arts by Sammy Franco

⌘The SAS Self-Defense Handbook by John Lofty Wiseman

⌘Essential Anatomy: The Healing of Martial Arts by Marc Tedeschi

Best Books on the Education our Children Deserve

❂The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Socialization by Asa G. Hilliard

❂Too Much Schooling Too Little Education: A Paradox of Black Life in White Societies by Mwalimu Shujaa

❂The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos Wilson

❂Children and the Cosmos: The Social Psychology of the Black Afrikan Child by Piere Erny

❂Awakening the Natural Genius in Black Children by Amos Wilson

❂Remembering Malcolm: Inside the Malcolm X from Inside the Muslim Mosque by Benjamin Karim

❂Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

❂The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by Amos Wilson

❂100 + Educational Strategies To Teach Children of Color by Jawanzaa Kunjufu

❂Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education by Kwame Akoto

❂The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

❂Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles by Janice Hale-Benson

❂Sankofa: African Thought and Education by Elleni Tedla

❂The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa: A Study of the Chagga Educational System

❂Black Students. Middle Class Teachers by Jawanzaa Kunjufu

❂SBA: The Reawakening of the Afrikan Mind by Asa Hilliard

❂Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarters 1831-1865 by Thomas Webber

❂To Educate a People: Thoughts from the Center by Mwalimu Baruti

❂A View from the East: Black Cultural Nationalism and Education in New York City

❂ Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum Proceedings of the First National Conference October 1999

❂We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination by Russell Rickford 

❂To Be Afrikan: Essays by Afrikans in the Process of Sankofa. Returning to Our Source of Power by Marimba

❂The African Personality: Lubrication for Liberation. Can African People Get Along. A Primer for inflict Management by Fundi Sanyika Anwisye

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"We Black people do not see the war being waged against us because we don't want to and because we are afraid. We are engaging in behavior designed specifically to block out any awareness of the war -- our true reality. Our behavior thus forces us into the insanity of hoping and begging -- as opposed to the sanity of analysis, specific behavioral pattern design and specific conduct in all areas of people activity…Because we do not understand what is going on, in our impotence and ignorance, in our powerlessness and frustration, we start getting mad, fussing, crying, rhyming, begging with picket signs, rioting in misdirection, hooping and hollering, moaning in our churches and preparing to vote for any white man who smiles at us even though he lies to us. These behaviors are absolutely useless. Such behaviors are in vain and will take us nowhere. They will all come to naught and the problem—the war—will simply continue and intensify.” -ISIS PAPERS

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With the spread of misinformation, political pandering and vapid symbolism, how and where can we show our children a clear path of understanding to their true relationship to culture and the global politic? Our children, our families and our people need clarity, integrity and a focused commitment to improving our condition. With the correct political education and an understanding in the value of our culture and history, we can take the right action to serve our interests rather than work against our interests. That is the selfish love I have seen in the courageous work from educator, writer, speaker and master teacher, T’Shango Mbilishaka. The forward, visionary thinking that the sons and daughters of Africa need is what I’ve witnessed in his classroom, in is office during his office hours, in his output and results of his students. As a colleague, I have seen T’Shango sit with students at his feet yearning for political education to empower themselves. I have seen him share African proverbs, anecdotes from his journey and quote the teachings of Malcolm X, Fanny Lou Hamer, Marcus Garvey, and Ella Baker. I do not know a more well-read scholar on Black (African Diasporan) culture, history, and politics. As a leading scholar and general in the journey of independence for the African Diaspora, I see T’Shango’s work on par with the great Asa Hilliard, Runoko Rashidi, Booker T. Coleman, and the legendary historian John Henrik Clarke. He is carrying the torch of these scholars and doing the work to connect the children of the diaspora with the continent of Africa. Decolonizing one’s mind is a process that needs the guidance of an informed and compassionate leader. Educator T’Shango Mbilishaka is that guide that the African world needs and deserves.”

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