SUMMER 2017 READINGS
Kevin Gaines, African American History (pdf), in American History Now by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr Gene Jarrett, Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature Meier and Rudwick, Black History and the Historical Profession
Read one of the following survey texts: Mary Frances Berry and John W. Blassingame, Long Memory: the Black Experience in America John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom Thomas C. Holt, Children of Fire James & Lois Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: the Making of African Americans Deborah Gray White et al, Freedom On My Mind
AFROAM 701: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES I
READING LIST FOR FALL 2017
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Sylviane A. Diouf, Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women Slave Narratives of Douglass, and Jacobs (in Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed. Classic Slave Narratives) Antebellum Poetry, including Phillis Wheatley (in Joan Sherman, selections, African American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Martin Delany, Blake Christopher Phillips, Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm Too Long W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy Postbellum, Pre-Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Paul Laurence Dunbar (in Joan Sherman, African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology) Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Compromise” (1895) Shawn Alexander, An Army of Lions Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896- 1920 Bettye Coller-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs and Justice James Anderson, Education of Blacks
AFROAM 702: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES II
READING LIST FOR SPRING 2018
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (in Three Negro Classics) Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Sterling Brown (in James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry) Jean Toomer, Cane Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Robin D.G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: NAACP St. Clair Drake, Black Metropolis Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City Richard Wright, Native Son Ann Petry, The Street Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha and poetry selections in Blacks Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music Langston Hughes, The Best of Simple Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain David L. Lewis, King: A Biography Alex Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Amiri Baraka, Dutchman (in Call and Response) Black Arts / Post-Black Arts (in Call and Response) Carmichael and Hamilton, Black Power Ernest Gaines, Bloodline Toni Morrison, Beloved Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing N.P. Singh, Black Is a Country