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Wisdom Carried Forward — The Ancestor Shelf

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1. They Came Before Columbus

ISBN: 9780812968170

1. They Came Before Columbus

2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

3. How to Be an Antiracist

4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

5. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019

6. Assata: An Autobiography

7. Women, Race & Class

8. Capitalism and Slavery

9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

10. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

12. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

13. The Souls of Black Folk

14. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880

15. Looseleaf for From Slavery to Freedom, 10th Edition

16. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

17. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619–1962

18. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

19. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

20. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America

21. The Rebirth of African Civilization

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

23. Africa Must Unite

24. Between the World and Me

25. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

26. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

27. The Mis-Education of the Negro

28. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

29. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

30. An African American and Latinx History of the United States