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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1276
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 09:55 pm: | 
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I have a 16 year old nephew who's quite intelligent. I'm looking for recommendations for books that would be very uplifting and empowering for black men that would also teach him how to have pride in himself and be a leader.
What would you recommend? |
Renata
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Renata
Post Number: 1277
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:02 pm: |
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Specifically, how to be the kind of leader the black community needs (or at least how to think like a leader and not a follower), and encouragement in taking pride in his African American heritage. |
Snakegirl
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Username: Snakegirl
Post Number: 112
Registered: 05-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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"Black Boy" by Richard Wright should be at the top of any such list.
It's the life story of Richard Wright from around age 8 to age 19....growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee in the 1910's.
To me...it should be required reading for all Black children (male and female) worldwide.
Kola
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Latimer
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Username: Latimer
Post Number: 8
Registered: 06-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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Renata, here are some books, In the Castle of My Skin, by George Lamming, A Year in San Fernando by Michael Anthony, Green Days by the River by Michael Anthony, A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul, all the stuff by James Baldwin, No Longer at Ease, Man from the People both by Chinua Achebe, Jugua Nana by Cyprian Ekwensi, When Rainclouds Gather by Bessie Head, In the Fog of the Season's End by Alex La Guma, most of the works by Charles Dickens, Othello and Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Sent for you Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman, Erasure by Percival Everett, Sula by Tony Morrison, The Brothers Karamazov by Theodore Doestoevsky and the works of Alexander Pushkin. When he had finished read all these books, I have more. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2703
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 11:08 am: |
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He should read Autobiography of Malcolm X. |
Nom_de_plume
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Username: Nom_de_plume
Post Number: 28
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 12:51 am: |
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Manchild in the Promised Land
Makes Me Wanna Holla
The Cairo Trilogy by Nagib Mahfouz - lovin it! I like Naipaul too. |
Renata
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Renata
Post Number: 1286
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 01:28 pm: |
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Snakegirl...I checked out "Black Boy" from the library...and I'm definitely going to buy him a copy of it.
Richard Wright was a bigger man than most American men when he was still a boy!
I wish HE could have been a leader, but I guess we're blessed to have had him as a writer at least! |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 247
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 09:38 am: |
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Race Matters by Cornel West.
The Covenant by Tavis Smiley.
Makes Me Wanna Holla by Nathan McCall.
All About Love by bell hooks.
Also, I haven't read them but I hear good things about Realionaire and Letters to a Young Brother.
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