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Suggested Material
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Suggested Book Reading List
1. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
2. All the Shah's Men, An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
3. Orientalism by Edward W. Said
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X As told by Alex Haley
5. From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
6. Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas L. Friedman
7. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
8. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. by David Howard-Pitney
9. The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A reference guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean by David W. Dent
10. The Cuban Counter-Revolution. by Jesus Arboleya
11. The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution by John Brentlinger
13. Black Power by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton
14. Yurugu by Marimba Ani
15. The Racial Contract by Mills
16. Cultural Hegemony & African American Development by Clove E. Semmes
17. The Prince by Niccola Machiavelli
18. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal
19. Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Suggested Movie List
1. Malcolm X Director: Spike Lee
2. An Inconvenient Truth By Al Gore
3. Steal This Movie Director: Robert Greenwald
4. Walkout HBO Films
5. Out Foxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
6. The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress
7. V for Vendetta Director:James Mcteigue
8. Gandi Director:Richard Attenborough
9. Fahrenheit 9/11 Director Michael Moore
10. Syriana Director Stephen Gaghan
11. The Matrix Trilogy Andy
Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
12. Tupac Resurrection Director: Lauren Lazin
13. Imagine: John Lennon Director: Andrew Solt
14. City of God Director: Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
15. Boys in the Hood Director: John Singleton
16. Sicko Director: Michael Moore
17. Capitalism, A Love Story Director: Michael Moore
18. Slumdog Millionare Director: Danny Boyle
19. The Siege Director: Edward Zwick
20. Rags to Riches to Rags Director: Marc Levin
21. The Spook Who Sat By The Door Director: Ivan Dickson
22. Bulworth Director: Warren Beatty
23. Wag the Dog Director: Barry Levinson
24. Manchurian Candidate Director: Johnathan Demme
Suggested Article Reading List
1. The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity by Stuart Hall
2. National Liberation and Culture by Amilcar Cabral
3. American Negro Slave Revolts: Chapter 2 The Fear of Rebellion by Herbert Aptheker
4. Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Plato