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African American Studies & the Philosophy of Race AAS 201

  • The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martín Alcoff
  • ✔️ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (my highlights)
  • 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

  • Close Reading for the 21st Century by Sinykin & Winant

Intro. to Law & Public Policy in African American History AAS 230

  • 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

  • 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 (my highlights)
  • 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 Literature to 1910 AAS 253

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
  • Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Intro. to African American History to 1863 AAS 267

  • 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

Intro. to African American History Since Emancipation AAS 268

  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Marable & Mullings
  • I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror & Survival in the War against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
  • Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
  • Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s by Hampton & Fayer
  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Modern Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Power AAS 270

  • 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

Black Women & Spiritual Narrative AAS 318

  • Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Quicksand by Nella Larsen
  • The 12 Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  • The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker <!– 9780143135692 – >
  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison & Her Circle AAS 320

  • ✔️ Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights)
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • A Mercy by Toni Morrison
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Art, Apartheid & South Africa AAS 411

  • ✔️ Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

World After Empire AAS 416

  • ✔️ 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 (my highlights)

Memory, History & the Archive AAS 426

  • Silencing the Past: Power & the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  • A More Beautiful & Terrible History: The Uses & Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
  • Scattered & Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives & Remade History by Laura Helton
  • When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness & Belonging in the World by Leigh Raiford
  • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women & Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

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