African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe (U.C. Berkeley Course, 1971)

“African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe taught by none other than Sun Ra during the Spring semester of 1971 at Berkeley. Someone had the good idea to tape one of his lectures which, like his music, takes you on a ride. The reading list for his course: The Egyptian Book of the Dead A. A. Attanasio: Radix Alexander Hislop: Two Babylons The Theosophical works of Madame Blavatsky The Book of Oahspe Henry Dumas: Ark of Bones Henry Dumas: Poetry for My People eds. Hale Charfield & Eugene Redmond, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1971 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 Stylus, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 1971), Temple University John S. Wilson: Jazz. Where It Came From, Where It's At, United States Information Agency Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan: Black Man of the Nile and His Family, Alkibu Ian Books 1972 Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney: The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, and the Law of Nature, London: Pioneer Press 1921 The Source Book of Man's Life and Death (Ra's description; = The King James Bible) Pjotr Demianovitch Ouspensky: A New Model of the Universe. Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art, New York: Knopf 1956 Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language. An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages, ed. Lancelot Hogben, New York: Norton & Co. 1944 Blackie's Etymology”

“Wish I could’ve taken this course.”