Read a Book 1

The video diary Read a book by D'Mite implores the 'nigger' to "read a book, raise your children (kids), drink water, buy some land, brush your teeth, wear deodorant...". Truly the state of unconsciousness of some Afrikan-folk in Europe-USA is quite contemptible.

But what books to read? Let us try to put some together.

The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden-1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946

In every one of these soldier's hearts, and over all the earth hung the shadow of the freed Negro, transformed by the exigency of war from a Chattel to be bought and sold into a possible Beast to be feared and guarded. Around this dusky figure every white man's soul was keeping its grim vigil.

Africans in Colonial Louisiana by Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall
- charts the ethnic background of enslaved Africans including the Bambara and others.
Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael Gomez
- has much information, including charts and tables on the ethnic origin of New World Africans.
Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage by William Pierson