Introduction

PART I: BLACK EPISTEMOLOGY

Black Feminist Epistemology

1. Anna Julia Cooper

2. Audre Lorde

3. Fatou Sow

4. Rose Brewer

5. Patricia Hill Collins

6. Ruth Wilson Gilmore

7. bell hooks

8. Combahee River Collective

Black Insurgent Sociology

9. James Edward Blackwell

10. Archie Mafeje

11. Delores P. Aldridge

12. Joyce Ladner

13. Aldon Morris

14. Earl Wright II

PART II: BLACK GEOPOLITICS

15. Booker T. Washington

16. W.E.B. Du Bois

17. Charles S. Johnson

18. Oliver Cromwell Cox

19. C.L.R. James

20. Horace R. Cayton, Jr.

21. St. Clair Drake

22. Frantz Fanon

23. Stuart Hall

24. Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte

25. William Julius Wilson

26. Cedric Robinson

27. Walter Rodney

28. Esteban Miguel Morales Dominguez

29. Elijah Anderson

30. Amina Mama

PART III: BLACK OPPRESSION, BLACK RESISTANCE

31. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

32. Monroe Nathan Work

33. Derrick Bell

34. Beatriz Nascimento

35. Angela Davis

36. Manning Marable

37. Loretta Ross

38. Cornel West

39. Dorothy Roberts

40. Lawrence D. Bobo

41. Kimberle Crenshaw

42. Ruha Benjamin

43. Kehinde Andrews

PART IV: BLACK FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES

44. Zora Neale Hurston

45. E. Franklin Frazier

46. Ira De Augustine Reid

47. Andrew Billingsley

48. Toni Morrison

49. Nathan Hare

50. Doris Y. Wilkinson