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I - Blackness; II - Hispanidad III - Religion & Morality; IV- Strategy & Warfare
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BOOKS THAT OFFER AN INDEPTH ANALYSIS ON BLACKNESS I ______________________________
White Architects of Black Education
by William H. Watkins
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Savage Inequalities
by Jonathan Kozol
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Black Protest - History, Documents,
and Analyses (1619 to the present) by Joanne Grant
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Africa Yesterday and Today
by Clark D. Moore
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The End of Blackness
by Debra J. Dickerson
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well
(The Permanence of Racism) by Derrick Bell
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Stokely Speaks (Kwame Ture)
by Lawrence Hill Books
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Defending The Spirit
(A Black Life in America) by Randall Robinson
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The Black Notebooks
by Toi Derricotte
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson History shows, then, that as a result of these unusual forces in the education of the Negro he easily learns to follow
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the line of least resistance rather than battle
against odds for what real history has shown to be the right course.
A mind that remains in the present atmosphere never undergoes
sufficient development toexperience what is commonly known as thinking.
No Negro thus submerged in the ghetto [at that time, virtually all blacks lived in the ghetto], then, will have a clear conception of the present status of the race or sufficient foresight to plan for the future; and he drifts so far toward compromise that he loses moral courage. The education of the Negro, then, becomes a perfect device for control from without. Those who purposely promote it have every reason to rejoice, and Negroes themselves exultingly champion the cause of the oppressor.
Excerpt (p. 62) Synopsis/Review [Click Here]
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by Lawrence Hill Books
On Integration
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. For example, I am black. I know that. I also know that while I am black I am a human being. Therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a public place they stopped me. So some boys had to write a bill to tell that white man,"He's a human being; don't stop him." That bill was for the white man, not for me. I knew I could vote all the time and that it wasn't a privilege but my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Excerpt (p. 46 & 47)
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by Cedric J. Robinson
...Immigration began in 1845; there was a break in 1848-51; then from 1851 right down to 1917 Indians arrived steadily each year. Between 1845 and 1892, 93,569 labourers came, channeled through two main Indian ports, Calcutta in the North, and Madras in the South. The great majority, however, came from Calcutta and after 1872 there were no more arrivals from Madras.
...And up to the First World War, it came to be accepted that they served in Trinidad as a "substantial counterpoise against troubles with the Negroes and vice versa.
...Black labourers in Trinidad, during this period, reacted to their oppressive society they lived in by attempting to reduce their dependence on the plantation, by seeking to create an area of freedom for themselves, however limited. They tried to become peasants or artisans; if they failed, they drifted to the towns. In the towns, constant urban unrest reflected an awareness of oppression. The bands fought each other because they were unable to attack the real sources of their misery or powerlessness, not because they were unaware of them.
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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
...And such proceedings can happen, and will happen, in any community where a class of ignorant toilers are placed by custom and race-prejudice beyond the pale of sympathy and race-brotherhood. So long as the best elements of a community do not feel in duty bound to protect and train and care for the weaker members of their group, they leave them to be preyed upon by these swindlers and rascals.
Excerpt (p. 122)
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The Town council of Córdoba twice warned Eugenia Montilla (1746 and 1750) that she was not to wear silk dresses or a manto in public. This mulata was married to a Spaniard, and she apparently believed that her husband's power and influence would shield her from the wrath of the local officials. unfortunately, she failed to reckon with feminine fury. Invited to the home of a supposedly friendly Spanish lady, Eugenia discovered too late that she had wandered into a trap. A group of angry white women stripped her, had their slaves beat her, burned her silk dress, and then clothed her in garments "corresponding to her birth." Her spirit broken, Eugenia Montilla fled the town. Excerpt (p. 148) _______________________________ Las Raíces Torcidas de América Latina Carlos Alberto Montaner Para la mayoría de los conquistadores que siguieron la huella de Colon, las indias eran unas criaturas concebidas para prestarles servicios y permitirles disfrutar del sexo sin limite alguno. |
Los propios varones indios
reforzaban este comportamiento regalando a los intrusos sus hijas,
hermanas, y hasta las propias esposas, con el fin de apaciguarlos. Los
guaraníes vendían a sus mujeres e hijos si exhibir el menor
remordimiento. A Cortes le regalan veinte indias, entre ellas Malintzin,
la famosa Malinche, [Entérate de qué es Malinchísmo, haz clic aquí]
más tarde bautizada como Marina, que
luego de pasar por otras manos le servirá como intérprete y amante,
siendo muy probable que el conquistador de México se sintiera mejor con
las nativas que con las mujeres blancas.
...No es exagerado ver la conquista de América por los españoles como una especie de hazaña genital: <Majestad - dice un español en un documento en el que quiere demostrar sus méritos para obtener alguna simonía-, yo con mis solas fuerzas poblé el territorio a mi cargo.>
selección (p. 92-3) Resumen [Click Here]
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Los Cinco Soles de México
Carlos Fuentes
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las dos sangres enemigas... sal, mi hijo, a recobrar tu tierra maldita
fundada sobre el crimen permanente y los suenos fugitivos... ve si
puedes recuperar tu tierra y tus suenos, hijo mio, blanco y moreno; ve
si puedes lavar toda la sangre de las pirámides y de las espadas y de
las cruces manchadas que son como los terribles y
ávidos dedos de tu tierra... sal a tu tierra, hijo de la madrugada, sal
lleno de rencor y miedo, sal lleno de burla y engaño
y falsa sumisión... sal, mi hijo, sal a odiar a tu padre y a insultar a
tu madre... Habla quedo, hijo mio, como conviene a un esclavo;
inclínate, sirve, padece y ármate de un secreto odio para el día de tu
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...hay demasiados hombres blancos en el mundo y todos quieren lo mismo: la sangre, el trabajo, y el culo de los hombres oscurecidos por el sol; vendrá oleada tras oleada de hombres blancos a adueñarse de nuestra tierra; contra todos deberás luchar y tu lucha sera triste porque pelearás contra una parte de tu propia sangre . Tu padre nunca te reconocerá, hijito prieto; nunca verá en ti a su hijo, sino a su esclavo...
selección (p. 81) Resumen [Click Here]
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_______________________________ Will the Real Heretics Please Stand up [Scroll Publishing Co. 1989] David W. Bercot We are so far removed from the message of the early church that most of us have virtually no concept of what it means to suffer for Christ. A few years ago I heard a pastor deliver a sermon on the verse, "If you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear his name." (1 Pet. 4:16) The pastor commented that most Christians in the United States have no concept of what it means to suffer as a Christian. After the service, I was talking to the pastor when a deacon walked up to him and thanked him for the message. The deacon agreed that most Christians in this country don't understand what it means to suffer for being a Christian. However, the deacon said he knew exactly what it meant. He went on to describe the pain and suffering he had endured a few years
previously while undergoing an operation. As I drove home from church, I
marveled at how well the deacon had illustrated the very point the
pastor was trying to make - we American Christians don't know what it
means to suffer for being a Christian. We think when we endure the same
tribulations in life common to everyone, we are suffering for Christ. Excerpt (p. 50) _______________________________ La Puta de Babilonia Fernando Vallejo
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el ansia insaciable de poder que nunca ha dejado vivir en paz a la Puta.
Maquina aquí, maquina allá intriga y manipula, corona y tuba príncipes,
reyes, emperadores, prende hogueras, quema herejes, vende indulgencias y
reliquias, calumnia y miente. Nunca pierde. Siempre se las arregla para
salir ganando esta parásita.
selección (p. 22) Intrevista [Click Here]
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The Essential Gandhi
An Anthology of His Writings On His Life, Work and Ideas
[ New York: Random House 1962]
Mahatma Gandhi
The first step in the practice of Socialism is to learn to use your hands and feet. It is the only sure way to eradicate violence and exploitation from society. We have no right to talk of Socialism so long as there is hunger and unemployment and the distinction between high and low amongst us and around us.
Socialism is a beautiful word and so far as I am aware in Socialism all the members of society are equal-none low, none high. In the individual's body the head is not high because it is [at] the top... nor are the soles of the feet low because they touch the earth. Even as members of the individual's body are equal so are the members of society...
In [Socialism] the prince and the peasant, the wealthy and the poor, the employer and the employee are all on the same level...
In order to reach this state we may not look on things philosophically and say we need not make a move until all are converted to Socialism...
Socialism begins with the first convert....
Excerpt (p. 306)
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| The Art of War Sun Tzu
conceals his true dispositions and ultimate intent. When capable he feigns incapacity; when near he makes it appear that he is far away; when far away, that he is near. Moving as intangibly as a ghost in the starlight, he is obscure, inaudible. His primary target is the mind of the opposing commander; the victorious situation, a product of his creative imagination. Sun Tzu realized that an indispensable preliminary to battle was to attack the mind of the enemy. ...The wise general cannot be manipulated. Excerpted (p. 41) |
