Prepared by the Staff of Rentschler Library
Miami University Hamilton

featuring Dr. Maulana Karenga with special guest M.K. Asante, Jr.

Cruz, Jose E. "Interminority Relations in Urban Settings: Lessons from the Black-Puerto Rican Experience." In Black and Multiracial Politics in America, ed. Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh and Lawrence J. Hanks. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Cunningham, Michael. "African American Adolescent Males' Perceptions of Their Community Resources and Constraints: A Longitudinal Analysis." Journal of Community Psychology 27, no. 5 (1999): 569-588.

Danziger, Sheldon, and Ann Chih Lin. Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Dimitriadis, Greg. Friendship, Cliques, and Gangs: Young Black Men Coming of Age in Urban America. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.

Dyson, Michael Eric. "The Culture of Hip-Hop." In The Michael Eric Dyson Reader. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2004.

Ginwright, Shawn A. Black in School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth & the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004.
Describes the initiation and outcomes of Afrocentric reforms in an Oakland, California high school.

Kedia, P. Ray. Black on Black Crime: Facing Facts, Challenging Fictions. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall, 1994.

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002.

Kusmer, Kenneth L. "African Americans in the City since World War II: From the Industrial to the Postindustrial Era." In The New African American Urban History, ed. Kenneth W. Goings and Raymond A. Mohl. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Knopf, 1991.

Leovy, Jill. "The Untold Agony of Black-on-Black Murder." Los Angeles Times, January 26 2003, A1.

Massood, Paula J. Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

McElroy, Susan Williams. "Black + Woman = Work: Gender Dimensions of the African American Economic Experience." In African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present, ed. Joe William Trotter, Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Perkins, J. Helen. "Addressing the Literacy Needs of African-American Students and Their Teachers." In Perspectives on Rescuing Urban Literacy Education: Spies, Saboteurs, and Saints, ed. Robert B. Cooter. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004.

Poussaint, Alvin F., and Amy Alexander. Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Sullivan, Amy M. "From Mentor to Muse: Recasting the Role of Women in Relationship with Urban Adolescent Girls." In Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities, ed. Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Taylor, Henry Louis, and Walter Hill. Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950. New York: Garland, 2000.

Teel, Karen Manheim, and Andrea DeBruin-Parecki. "Life in an Urban Classroom." In Making School Count: Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001.

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
A sociological study of the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development in Chicago.

Weis, Lois, and Michelle Fine. Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, and Gender among Urban Youth. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.

Wiese, Andrew. "The Next Great Migration: African American Suburbanization in the 1980s and 1990s." In Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Selected Readings By and About Dr. Maulana Karenga

Karenga, Maulana. "Political Culture and Resurgent Racism in the United States." The Black Scholar 16, no. 3 (1985): 21-35.

________. "Social Ethics and the Black Family: An Alternative Analysis." The Black Scholar 17, no. 5 (1986): 41-54.

________. "Afrocentricity and Multicultural Education: Concept, Challenge, and Contribution." In Toward the Multicultural University, ed. Benjamin P. Bowser, Terry Jones and Gale Auletta Young. Westport: Praeger, 1995.

________. "Black and Latino Relations: Context, Challenge, and Possibilities." In MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, ed. Ishmael Reed. New York: Viking, 1997.

________. Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture. Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press, 1998.

________. Introduction to Black Studies. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press, 2002.

________. "Du Bois and the Question of the Color Line: Race and Class in the Age of Globalization." Socialism and Democracy 17, no. 1(33) (2003): 141-160.

________. "Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World." In Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations, ed. Ronald L. Jackson II and Elaine B. Richardson. New York: Routledge, 2003.

________. "The Pan-African Initiative in the Americas: Culture, Common Struggle and the Odu Ifa." National Political Science Review 9 (2003): 156-172.

________. Maat, the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt : A Study in Classical African Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2004.

________. Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism: Issues in Domination, Resistance and Diversity. Los Angeles: University of Sankore Press, 2005 (forthcoming).

Madhubuti, Haki R., and Maulana Karenga. Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology: Speeches, Commentary, Photography, Poetry, Illustrations, Documents. Chicago: Third World Press, 1996.

M. K. Asante, Jr.

Asante Jr., M. K. Like Water Running Off My Back: Poems. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002.

________. "Enough Disrespect: Return Rap to Its Artistic Roots." USA Today, 26 October 2004, 13a. Accessed 01/27/05. Available from:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2004-10-25-rap-music_x.htm

________. 500 Years Later [DVD]. Halaqah Films, 2005.
A film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah, written by M.K. Asante, Jr., music composed by Tunde Jegede, and illustrated by Dr. Ramon Zar. "Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland." http://www.500yearslater.com

________. The Official Site of M.K. Asante, Jr. 2005. Accessed 01/27/05. Available from http://www.asante.info/

Focused Digizine. 2005. M.K. Asante, Jr. is co-founder and Editor-In-Chief. Focused Digizine is "a quarterly DVD (available by subscription or one-time purchase) with video articles called segments, an animated series, music videos, and much more." It is “designed to provide progressive, edgy, and urban edutainment for the Hip-Hop generation." Accessed 01/27/05. Available from:
http://www.focusedonline.com/

Harris, Theodore A. Our Flesh of Flames (introduction by M.K. Asante, Jr.), 2004. Accessed 01/27/05. Available from:
http://www.blackartsmovement.org/bam/harrisintroduction.htm