Recommended books and movies - from SLC interview with Drake Materre

During the 11/4/2020 Sounds Like Community, Paign to Peace interviewed Drake Materre of BSFR.

Materre and others suggested several.

Books:

• Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Black Marxism / The Making of the Black Radical, by Cedric Robinson and Robin D G Kelley
• The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
• Prisons are Obsolete, by Angela Davis ("or anything by Angela Davis")
• Medical Apartheid, by Harriet A Washington
• Black Power
• I Write What I Like, by Steven Biko (writings about south african apartheid)
• Part of My Soul Went With Him, by Winnie Mandela
• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, by C. L. R. James (story of the Haitian revolution)
• Destruction of Black Civilization, by Chancellor Williams
• The Road Less Traveled, by Scott Peck
• The Miseducation of Black Children, by Dr. Kmt G. Shockley   [is it this one? -SL]
• Native Son, by Richard Wright
• Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon
• Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Kindred, by Octavia Butler

Movies:

• American History X
  Drama about a white supremacist who goes to prison and emerges changed. White supremacy as seen by someone in the midst of it.

• The 13th

• Malcolm X
  [there are several movies with this title; I'm guessing the 1992 version, by Spike Lee]

• Black Panther
  Comments: afrofuturism, demonizes the Angry Black Man/post-colonial figure compared to the untouched protagonist

• When They See Us
  is a tough watch, even with the 45 moments that we’re already well aware of.

  Just heard this discussed on a WRFU podcast today, The Homecoming Podcast (Isis Rose and Chae Pounds). All about Black Homebirth Stories. Also on WRFU at 5pm every Wednesday.

Also mentioned during the show: Ibrahim Ouedraogo's video production company,
    https://www.globalvisualmediastudio.com