Simon Fisher Prelims Reading List: African American History, Diaspora, and the American Empire, 1880s- present Supervising Professor: Brenda Gayle Plummer Spring 2014

Field Overviews, Survey Texts, and Historiographic Questions

Dailey, Jane Elizabeth, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and Bryant Simon. Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Gaines, Kevin. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Gregory, James N. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Hahn, Steven. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration. Cambridge: Belknap, 2003.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” The Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005): 1233–1263.

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” Signs 17, no. 2 (January 1992): 251–274.

Hill, Jr. Walter B. “Researching Civil Rights History in the 21st Century.” The Journal of African American History 93, no. 1 (January 2008): 94–99.

Hodes, Martha Elizabeth, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Kelley, Robin D. G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.

Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990. 2nd ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Payne, Charles, and Adam Green. Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

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Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Theory and Methodology: Race Identity, Racialization, Interraciality

Abel, Elizabeth. Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Brown, Jacqueline Nassy. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Dunning, Stefanie K. Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.

Ferguson, Roderick A. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth- Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Holland, Sharon Patricia. The Erotic Life of Racism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Johnson, E. Patrick, Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Lubin, Alex. Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Moran, Rachel F. Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Muñoz, José Esteban. “Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13, no. 2-3 (2007): 353– 367.

Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Romano, Renee Christine. Race Mixing: Black-white Marriage in Postwar America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Schueller, Malini Johar. “Articulations of African-Americanism in South Asian Postcolonial Theory: Globalism, Localism, and the Question of Race.” Cultural Critique no. 55 (October 2003): 35–62.

Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-slavery Subjects. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Wiegman, Robyn. American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Theory and Methodology: Diaspora and Empire Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Ferrer, Ada. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Green, Michael Cullen. Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Guridy, Frank Andre. Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Imada, Adria L. Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.

Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915- 1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Stoler, Ann Laura, ed. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

———. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Wexler, Laura. Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Histories from Reconstruction to World War II

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Baldwin, Davarian L. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, & Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Bates, Beth Tompkins. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925- 1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Blee, Kathleen M. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Brown, Leslie. Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. New York: Vintage, 1999.

Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. 5th ed. New York: Atheneum, 1973.

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.

———. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Jones, William P. The Tribe of Black Ulysses African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

Kelley, Robin D.G. “‘We Are Not What We Seem’: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South.” The Journal of American History 80, no. 1 (June 1993): 75–112.

Oshinsky, David M. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press, 1996.

Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post- Civil War North, 1865-1901. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Summers, Martin Anthony. Manliness and Its Discontents: The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Histories from the Postwar, Cold War, and Civil Rights Eras

Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

D’Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Estes, Steve. I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Fosl, Catherine. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Gore, Dayo F. Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Holsaert, Faith S., et al. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Honey, Michael K. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2008.

Horne, Gerald. Black and Red: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963. SUNY Press, 1985.

———. Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lawson, Steven F. Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941. 3rd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Singh, Nikhil Pal. Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2009.

———. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Woods, Jeff. Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-communism in the South, 1948- 1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2003.

Histories of Black Power, Black Feminism, and the Age of Racialized Mass Incarceration

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2010.

Breines, Wini. The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Dyson, Michael Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Civitas, 2006.

Hancock, Ange-Marie. The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen. New York: New York University Press, 2004.

Hartmann, Susan M. “Pauli Murray and the ‘Juncture of Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation’.” Journal of Women’s History 14, no. 2 (2002): 74–77.

Joseph, Peniel, ed. The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Murch, Donna Jean. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Omi, Michael, and Howard A. Winant. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Orleck, Annelise. Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.

Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

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International/Transnational African American Histories

Anderson, Carol. Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Baldwin, Kate A. Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Bloom, Joshua. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Chabot, Sean. Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

Eschen, Penny Marie Von. Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937- 1957. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Gaines, Kevin. “A World to Win: The International Dimension of the Black Freedom Movement.” OAH Magazine of History20, no. 5 (October 2006): 14–18.

———. “Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: Black Radicalism and the Dialectics of Diaspora.” Social Text 19, no. 2 (2001): 75–101.

Horne, Gerald. From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Books, 2001.

Horne, Gerald C. The End of Empires: African Americans and India. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

Immerwahr, Daniel. “Caste or Colony? Indianizing Race in the United States.” Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 2 (2007): 275–301.

Kapur, Sudarshan. Raising up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Kelley, Robin D. G. “‘But a Local Phase of a World Problem’: Black History’s Global Vision, 1883-1950.” The Journal of American History 86, no. 3 (December 1999): 1045–1077.

Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

———. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

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Singh, Nikhil Pal. “Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy.” American Quarterly 50, no. 3 (1998): 471–522.

Frazier, Robeson Praj T. “Sketches of Black Internationalism and Transnationalism.” The Journal of African American History 96, no. 2 (April 2011): 231–235.

Slate, Nico. Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

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