Friday, June 27, 2008

American Legacy: The Top 10 Most Influential Books & Films in Black History


In celebration of American Legacy magazine's 10th Anniversary, historian Gerald Early produced the "essential reading list" in black history, and film critic Gene Seymour discusses the top films that "made the biggest impact on black culture".

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Most Influential Books
1. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois
2. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812 (1968), Winthrop Jordan
3. The Myth of the Negro Past (1941), Melville Herskovits
4. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984), Paula Giddings
5. Before the Mayflower (1962), Lerone Bennett
6. Blues People (1963), Amiri Baraka
7. Harlem Renaissance (1971), Nathan Huggins
8. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988), Taylor Branch
9. Biography of Paul Robeson (1988), Martin Duberman
10. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985), Jacqueline Jones

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Most Influential Films

1. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
2. Body and Soul (1925)
3. Hallelujah (1929)
4. Imitation of Life (1934)
5. Gone With The Wind (1939)
6. Carmen Jones (1954)
7. Black Orpheus (1959)
8. Black Girl (1966)
9. In The Heat of the Night (1967)
10. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
11. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979)
12. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
13. Boyz N The Hood (1991)


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