Sophomore level  
AAS & the Philosophy of Race
AAS 201 (fa26)		 • The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martín Alcoff
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
✔️ Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)
• More Beautiful & More Terrible: The Embrace & Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the US by Imani Perry
• Race: A Philosophical Introduction by Paul C. Taylor
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Methods in African American Studies
AAS 202 (fa26)		 • Close Reading for the 21st Century by Sinykin & Winant
Intro. to Law & Public Policy in African American History
AAS 230 (fa26)		 • Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice & Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery & Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Fields & Fields
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Souls of Black Folk - Reading W.E.B. Du Bois
AAS 231 (fa26)		 • The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
• Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays & Articles by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois
• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
• The World & Africa by W.E.B. Du Bois
Intro. to African American History to 1863
AAS 267 (fa26)		 • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
• David Walker’s Appeal
• Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents by Paul Finkelman
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Modern Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Power
AAS 270 (fa26)		 • The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom & the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
• Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Gore et. al
• Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights & Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Senior level  
Art, Apartheid & South Africa
AAS 411 (fa26)		 ✔️ Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
World After Empire
AAS 416 (fa26)		 ✔️ The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise & Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
• Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral
• Gandhi: ‘Hind Swaraj’ and Other Writings
• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
• Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
• The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
• Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois