Black History Month Part 10: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Celebration and the Reckoning – Footnotes

Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. 2nd ed. Oxford: Heinemann, 1990. On ancestor presence doctrine and the nature of personhood across West and Central African traditions.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Vintage, 1984. On the Bakongo dikenga cosmogram and its transmission to the Americas, pp. 103–159.
Lovell, John, Jr. Black Song: The Forge and the Flame. New York: Macmillan, 1972. On the multiple operational frequencies of the spirituals — theological, navigational, and cosmological.
Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1949. Reprint: Beacon Press, 1996.
Accumulated unpaid labor estimates: Darity, William A., Jr., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. On constitutional and policy accountability: see citations from Parts Five through Eight of this series.
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Knopf, 1981. On the historical context of the Harlem Renaissance and its principal figures.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. New York: New York Age Print, 1892. On the contemporary parallel: see Part Nine citations 14–16 of this series.
Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro Church in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1963. On the Black church as complete institution.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1975. On the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the long arc of the legal strategy.
Woodson, Carter G. The Mis-Education of the Negro. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1933. On the obligation of active memory cultivation across generations.

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