🐯 Princeton HIS unofficial reading list
| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| Intro. to African American History to 1863 HIS 266 (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 HIS 269 (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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |