Recommend a Non-Fiction Book

[MissK]

In Cold Blood-Truman Capote

 

[CashmoneyDux]

Anthropology and Modern Life- Franz Boas

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier- Ishmael Beah

 

[MissK]

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking-Susan Cain

“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss--another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”

― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

 

[luke1733]

The philosophy and opinions of marcus garvey

the complete works of aristotle

ocatvia e. butler's books, especiallyy parable of the sower

the dark tower series by stephen king

race and religion/ frederick k. price

 

[Rollin_Thunda]

Forty Million Dollar Slaves by William C. Rhoden - Every black high school, college, and pro athlete should read this book.

 

[I Self Lord & Master]

it isn't anything "deep" like you all are posting

but its a great period piece and entertaining as hell

This guy has experienced, and documents in this book, international black music history (and black history period) from like the 30s to the damn 80s...in a very entertaining and provocative fashion.

and it has that black street edge to it. At times i felt i was reading certain points of the Autobiography of Malcolm X

check it out

 

[scudda]

Gentleman Behave don't know the author

 

[luke1733]

Here I stand-Paul Robeson

 

[luke1733]

The complete works of Aristotle

 

[luke1733]

Eusebius and the start of the Christian church. This is a book written by roman living in the year 300ad that documents how christians were formed and perceived by romans like himself in the year 300ad.

 

[luke1733]

Josephus. The year is 100ad. He documents Roman life for 80% of the bookand as a side effect just so happened to include the earliest outside the church writing of who Jesus was and how christians were oddly seen as atheists by the roman government. This writing about Christians comes before the bible's new testament was canonized

 

[luke1733]

Invisible Man

 

[luke1733]

Native Son

 

[melanated khemist]

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable

The Mystical Qabalah

Dion Fortune

A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya

Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Classical Hatha Yoga

Swami Rajarshi Muni

The African Holistic Motivational Healing Guide

Kevin Montez Forrest

The Principles Of Light And Color As Revealed By The Material And Spiritual Universe

Edwin D. Babbitt

Melanin: The Chemical Key To Black Greatness (Black Greatness Series) [Paperback]

Carol Barnes

Secret Life of Plants by Tompkins, Peter; Bird, Christopher

 

[Black Boy King]

Stolen Legacy by George James. talks about how Greek philosophy was not original, but actually was taken from the Egyptian Mystery Schools

you can get it in ebook form

 

[Black Boy King]

 

[Ajackson17]

 

[Ajackson17]

@drew_ali you don't think its good reading material? I find the book very fascinating and shows that a lot of southerners are descendants of the ancient celtics and how they retained their culture and blacks adopted the culture in which turned into Ghetto culture and how he explains it. It's worth reading at least.

 

[Drew_Ali]

@Ajackson17......

I have read some of his books........

On one hand he makes great points.......

Then goes off on some historically inaccurate bullshit......

Like, he claims that whites care more about money than color........

Which, is subjective & interesting, but inaccurate......

"At the core of neo-Confederacy is a genetic argument, the belief that "Southern" people and culture are "Anglo-Celtic." This argument initially surfaced in the mid-1970s in the work of historian Grady McWhiney, who died in 2006, and his colleagues at the University of Alabama."

" Not only does this argument completely bypass the central issue of slavery, but also numerous scholars have exposed the flaws in the propositions forwarded by McWhiney and other proponents of the "Celtic South" thesis. Amongst the many criticisms are demonstrations that advocates of the "Celtic South" thesis rely upon erroneous assessments of U.S. Census data from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, incorrectly understand immigration patterns in the United States, reduce the diversity of the early American population to homogenous, culturally monolithic blocks, and expansively define who comprises "Celtic" people in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with usages employed by other scholars."

Contrary to popular belief, the south had a low population of Europeans with Celtic ancestry.......

And blacks did not copy anything from them.......

They had their own culture, gullah, in the south that got assimilated with American or "white" ........

This guy Sowell is a jackass...........

Would not waste time reading anymore of his fuckery..........

 

[Ajackson17]

@Ajackson17......

I have read some of his books........

On one hand he makes great points.......

Then goes off on some historically inaccurate bullshit......

Like, he claims that whites care more about money than color........

Which, is subjective & interesting, but inaccurate......

"At the core of neo-Confederacy is a genetic argument, the belief that "Southern" people and culture are "Anglo-Celtic." This argument initially surfaced in the mid-1970s in the work of historian Grady McWhiney, who died in 2006, and his colleagues at the University of Alabama."

" Not only does this argument completely bypass the central issue of slavery, but also numerous scholars have exposed the flaws in the propositions forwarded by McWhiney and other proponents of the "Celtic South" thesis. Amongst the many criticisms are demonstrations that advocates of the "Celtic South" thesis rely upon erroneous assessments of U.S. Census data from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, incorrectly understand immigration patterns in the United States, reduce the diversity of the early American population to homogenous, culturally monolithic blocks, and expansively define who comprises "Celtic" people in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with usages employed by other scholars."

Contrary to popular belief, the south had a low population of Europeans with Celtic ancestry.......

And blacks did not copy anything from them.......

They had their own culture, gullah, in the south that got assimilated with American or "white" ........

This guy Sowell is a jackass...........

Would not waste time reading anymore of his fuckery..........

Hmm, fuck maybe I shouldn't have bought the book. So does that mean the ghetto culture comes from Africa?