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1 After Slavery & Reconstruction: the Black Struggle in the U.S. for Freedom, Equality, and Self-Realization* —A Bibliogr After Slavery & Reconstruction: The Black Struggle in the U.S. for Freedom, Equality, and Self-Realization* —A Bibliography Patrick S. O’Donnell (2020) Jacob Lawrence, Library, 1966 Apologia— Several exceptions notwithstanding (e.g., some titles treating the Reconstruction Era), this bibliography begins, roughly, with the twentieth century. I have not attempted to comprehensively cover works of nonfiction or the arts generally but, once more, I have made— and this time, a fair number of—exceptions by way of providing a taste of the requisite material. So, apart from the constraints of most of my other bibliographies: books, in English, these particular constraints are intended to keep the bibliography to a fairly modest length (around one hundred pages). This compilation is far from exhaustive, although it endeavors to be representative of the available literature, whatever the influence of my idiosyncratic beliefs and 1 preferences. I trust the diligent researcher will find titles on particular topics or subject areas by browsing carefully through the list. I welcome notice of titles by way of remedying any deficiencies. Finally, I have a separate bibliography on slavery, although its scope is well beyond U.S. history. * Or, if you prefer, “self-fulfillment and human flourishing (eudaimonia).” I’m not here interested in the question of philosophical and psychological differences between these concepts (i.e., self- realization and eudaimonia) and the existing and possible conceptions thereof, but more simply and broadly in their indispensable significance in reference to human nature and the pivotal metaphysical and moral purposes they serve in our critical and evaluative exercises (e.g., and after Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, in employing criteria derived from the notion of ‘human capabilities and functionings’) as part of our individual and collective historical quest for “the Good.” However, I might note that all of these concepts assume a capacity for self- determination. Abel, Elizabeth. Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Abel, Roger L. The Black Shields. Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2006. Abernathy, Donzaleigh. Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Crown, 2003. Abernathy, Ralph David. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Abraham, Henry J. Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 4th ed., 1982. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1995. Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Noelle Hanrahan, ed.) All Things Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. Boston, MA: South End Press, 2008. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2009. Abu-Jamal, Mumia (Johanna Fernandez, ed.) Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal. San Francisco, CA: City Light Books, 2015. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 2 Acham, Christine. Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Adams, Frank, with Myles Horton. Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. Winston-Salem, NC: Blair, 1975. Adeleke, Tunde. UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Adell, Sandra. Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Adell, Sandra, ed. Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Adickes, Sandra E. The Legacy of a Freedom School. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Adoff, Arnold, ed. (Drawings by Benny Andrews) I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans. New York: Macmillan, 1968. Ahmad, Muhammad. We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations, 1960- 1975. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 2007. Albert, Peter J. and Ronald Hoffman, eds. We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. Alexander, Adele Logan. Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Alexander, Amy, ed. The Farrakhan Factor: African American Writers on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan. New York: Grove Press, 1997. Alexander, Elizabeth. The Black Interior: Essays. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004. Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2012. Alhamsi, Ahmed and Harun Kofi Wangara, eds. Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations. Detroit, MI: Black Arts Publications, 1969. Alkebulan, Paul. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2007. Alkon, Alison Hope. Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Alkon, Alison Hope and Julian Agyeman, eds. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Allen, Danielle S. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Allen, Howard W. and Jerome C. Clubb. Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008. Allen, James. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2000. 3 Allen, Norm R., Jr. African-American Humanism: An Anthology. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. Allen, Norm R., Jr. The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. Allen, Robert L. Black Awakening in Capitalist America. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1990. Allen Robert L. The Port Chicago Mutiny. San Francisco, CA: Equal Justice Society/Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2006 (New York: Amistad, 1993). Allen, Robert L. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair Treatment and Civil Rights. New York: Routledge, 2016. Almaguer, Thomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. Altshuler, Alan. Community Control: The Black Demand for Participation in Large American Cities. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun. Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller. New York: Routledge, 1997. Anderson, Carol. Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Anderson, Carol. The Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Anderson, Claud. Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice. Bethesda, MD: PowerNomics Corporation of America, 1994. Anderson, Devery S. Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Anderson, Elizabeth S. The Imperative of Integration. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Anderson, Eric and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1920. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1999. Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Anderson, Jervis. This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. Anderson, Jervis. Harlem: The Great Black Way, 1900-1950. London: Orbis, 1982. Anderson, Jervis. Bayard Rustin: Troubles I’ve Seen. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. 4 Anderson, Karen. Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Anderson, Kevin. Agitations: Ideologies and Strategies in African American Politics. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2010. Anderson, Noel S. and Haroon Kharem, eds. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. Anderson, Paul Allen. Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Anderson, R. Bentley. Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. Andrews, Gregg. Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. Andrews, Gordon. Undoing Plessy: Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. Andrews, Kenneth T. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights
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