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Malcolm X
1. Malcolm X Talks to Young People (New York : Pathfinder press,
1991)
2. Autobiography of Malcolm X , Chapters 5 "Harlemite",
6 "Detroit Red", 7 "Hustler"
Discussion Questions
1. Was Malcolm ever interested in Black music? Does he ever discuss this
in his autobiography?
2. Compare the social criticism of Black music in the 1960's with rap in the
1990's. Use example from the Mission Possible tunes available on the Malcolm X conference site.
3. Discuss the social philosophy of the music of Custis Mayfield.
4. Can music without words have a social philosophy?
Additional Reading
1. Dudley Randall
and Margaret Burroughs, For Malcolm: Poems on the life and Death of
Malcolm X (Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969)
2. Frank Kofsky, Black Nationalism and the Revolution of Music
(New York : Pathfinder Press, 1970)
3. Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (New York:
William Morrow & Company, 1967)
4. Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, Black Fire : An Anthology of
Afro-American Writing (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1968)
5. Robin Kelley "The Riddle of the ZooT : Malcolm Little and
Black Cultural Politics during World War II", Race Rebels:
Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (New York: The
Free Press, 1994)
6. Abiola Sinclair, et.al., The Harlem Cultural / Political Movements,
1960-1970, From Malcolm X to "Black is Beautiful" (New York :
Gumbs and Thomas Publishers, 1995)
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