This list is a supplement to a longer list a college student is curating on Facebook related to African-American Studies. The student already has many excellent suggestions. I took the request as an opportunity to search my brain, and I haven't posted in a while either, so there's that.
The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells (Also look for her Memphis Diary)
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
We Are Coming by Shirley Wilson Logan
The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color by Gary B. Mills, Elizabeth Shown Mills
Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris Perry
The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities Edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali Mazrui
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Edited by James M. Washington
Black Women Writers: 1950 to 1980, A Critical Evaluation Edited by Mari Evans
Looking for Leroy by Mark Anthony Neal
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blaine
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
Lagniappe: Podcasts that include book recommendations in this area, etc.
Scene on Radio: Seeing White
A list at Vanity Fair
Melissa Harris Perry's syllabus on black women in politics
Article, "The Case or Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic
Article, "You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument" by Caroline Randall Williams
John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary
Books on the Harlem Renaissance
Toni Morrison's 1975 Lecture on Race (not the article the recording)

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