Wisdom Carried Forward — The Ancestor Shelf
A curated reading collection for memory, identity, critical thought, cultural connection, and future-building. Each title is linked through our Bookshop.org affiliate program. If you purchase through a link, The Heritage Market may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
1. They Came Before Columbus
ISBN: 9780812968170
2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
ISBN: 9780593230275
3. How to Be an Antiracist
ISBN: 9780525509301
4. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
ISBN: 9780593230596
5. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019
ISBN: 9780593449349
6. Assata: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9781556520747
7. Women, Race & Class
ISBN: 9780394713519
8. Capitalism and Slavery
ISBN: 9781469663685
9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
ISBN: 9780679724674
10. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
ISBN: 9780767915472
11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
ISBN: 9781645030393
12. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
ISBN: 9780679763888
13. The Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: 9781722510763
14. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880
ISBN: 9780684856575
15. Looseleaf for From Slavery to Freedom, 10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259951732
16. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
ISBN: 9780195305692
17. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619–1962
ISBN: 9781684115341
18. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
ISBN: 9781556520723
19. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
ISBN: 9781788731188
20. PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America
ISBN: 9798991255608
21. The Rebirth of African Civilization
ISBN: 9780883781296
22. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
ISBN: 9781620971932
23. Africa Must Unite
ISBN: 9780901787033
24. Between the World and Me
ISBN: 9780812993547
25. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities
ISBN: 9780253214942
26. The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
ISBN: 9780883780305
27. The Mis-Education of the Negro
ISBN: 9781680920680
28. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
ISBN: 9780674076068
29. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
ISBN: 9780465049660
30. An African American and Latinx History of the United States
ISBN: 9780807005934
Read to remember. Learn to build. Carry the wisdom forward.
