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Sophomore level
The Souls of Black Folk - Reading W.E.B. Du Bois URB 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
- βοΈ 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
Revisiting Paris URB 258 (fa26)
- Kiffe Kiffe demain by Faïza Guène
- Cannibale by Didier Daeninckx
- Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
Intro. to African American History Since Emancipation URB 268 (fa26)
- 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
Junior level
Food, Health & Justice URB 312 (fa26)
- Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement by Hanna Garth
20th-Century Japan URB 324 (fa26)
- Peasants, Rebels, Women & Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan by Mikiso Hane
- Japan at War: An Oral History by Cook & Cook
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
- Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life by Sheldon Garon
- A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon
- Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
Senior level
Intro. to Water Pollution Technology URB 471 (fa26)
- Water Quality: Characteristics, Modeling & Modification by Tchobanoglous & Schoeder