General Reading:

Akbar, Na’im. (1984) Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery. Jersey City: New Mind Prod.

Akbar, Na’im. (1991) Visions for Black Men, Tallahassee, FL: Mind Productions & Associates, Inc.

Cress-Welsing, Frances. (1990) The Isis Papers: The Keys to The Colors. Chicago: Third World Press.

Madhubuti, Haki R. (1990) Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? Chicago: Third World Press.

Madhubuti, Haki R. (2002) Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men, Chicago: Third World Press.

Porter, Michael, Kill Them Before They Grow: The Mis-diagnosis of Black boys in Public Schools, African American Images, Chicago, Ill.

Vanzant, Iyanla. (1996) The Spirit of a Man: A Vision of Transformation For Black Men and the Women Who Love Them, New York: Harper Collins.

Michelle Alexander. (2010, 2012), The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, New York

Leary, J. D. (2005) Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. Portland Or. Uptowe Press

Coates, Ta-Nehisi (2015), Between the World and Me. New York:Spiegel Grau / Random House

Williams, Terri. (2008) Black Pain: It Just looks Like We’re Not Hurting, New York: Scribner

Kunjufu, Jawanza, Dr., Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Vol. I,II,III, & IV. African American Images, Chicago, Ill.

Haley, Alex (1964), The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ballantine Books, NY.

Smith, Mychal, D. Invisible Man: Got the Whole World Watching (2016), Nation Books, NY

Winbush, Raymond, A. The Warrior Method (2001), Harper Collins, NY

Mental Health Books for Black Men

• Black Men and Depression: Saving our Lives, Healing our Families and Friends. by John Head. ...

• The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve. ...

• Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting.

Graduate African American History Reading List, Department of History, Rutgers University 

Key Readings in Black Studies