Sun Ra Studies

Listed below are many of the books that were assigned by Sun Ra for his lecture course, African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe. The classes were offered in the Spring semester at the University of California, Berkeley, 1971.

These books are either available at Queen's University Library or at one of our partner libraries in Ontario. Click on the title's link for more information:

• The Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Radix  
• The Two Babylons; or, the papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife
• Oahspe, a new Bible in the words of Jehovih and his angel embassadors
• Henry Dumas: Ark of Bones 
• Henry Dumas: Poetry for My People 
• Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, eds. Leroi Jones & Larry Neal, New York: William Morrow 1968
• David Livingston: Missionary Travels
• Theodore P. Ford: God Wills the Negro
• Rutledge: God's Children
• Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan: Black Man of the Nile and His Family
• Volney's ruins, or, Meditation on the revolutions of empires
• Pjotr Demianovitch Ouspensky: A New Model of the Universe. Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art
• Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language. An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages, ed. Lancelot Hogben, New York: Norton & Co. 1944
• Blackie's Compact Etymological Dictionary